· Private foundation
The Linda Caswell Berry & Sons Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of THE LINDA CASWELL BERRY & SONS FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPRINGDALE NAZARENE CHURCH | $11,000 |
| CHRISTIAN HELP CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE VALLEY CHURCH | $7,500 |
| YOUR STORE OF THE QUEEN CITY | $7,500 |
| EMMANUEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $7,500 |
| LUKE 5 ADVENTURES | $6,000 |
| URBAN APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY COALITION | $5,500 |
| INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $5,000 |
| MAGNIFIED GIVING | $5,000 |
| OHIO VALLEY VOICES | $5,000 |
| INNER CINCINNATI SOCCER ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| ROGER BACON HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NORWOOD MASONIC TEMPLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 27%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
41 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- OVOHIO VALLEY VOICES5× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +78%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST CHESTERLIBERT3× · 2018–2023 · $18k · revenue +13%
- MGMagnified Giving5× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
- ARAppalachia Reach Outgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +69%
- WSWT SPORTS COMPLEX INCone grant, 2023 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
The mission of cincinnati christian university is to teach men and women to live by biblical principles and to equip and empower them with character, skills, insight, and vision to lead the church and to impact society for christ.
Cincinnati christian schools, partnering with christian families, provides a bible-centered, quality educational program to equip, train, and disciple students to follow christ and impact culture.
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
Mission: to inspire a community of uc and uc health supporters through the power of philanthropy. vision: igniting passion to transform lives.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.
Owensboro health medical group, inc. exists to heal the sick and improve the health of the community.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Greater Cincinnati Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Appalachia Reach Out. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 85 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORWOOD MASONIC TEMPLE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY VOICES ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY VISIONS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST CHESTERLIBERT ↗
- Who funds Magnified Giving ↗
- Who funds Appalachia Reach Out ↗
- Who funds Your Store of the Queen City ↗
- Who funds URBAN APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY COALITION ↗
- Who funds WT SPORTS COMPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO SLED HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LUKE5ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds 86 MINISTRIES ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Northern Cincinnai Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Hcs Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Linda Caswell Berry & Sons Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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