· Private foundation
The Makino Foundation (Fka the Leblond Foundation of Makino)
Its FY2024 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: 82% of THE MAKINO FOUNDATION (FKA THE LEBLOND FOUNDATION OF MAKINO)’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAFE HAVEN | $5,000 |
| IV-CHARIS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF NJ AREA-5 - MIGHTY DUCKS | $5,000 |
| RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS | $2,500 |
| ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY | $2,000 |
| THE VILLAGE FOOD PANTRY | $1,500 |
| SCHNAUZER RESCUE CINCNNATI | $1,000 |
| ST FRANCIS DE SALES PARISH BOY SCOUT TROOP 186 | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- WSWright State University Foundation Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +93%
- CSCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY2× · 2019–2020 · $12k · revenue +53%
- M2Matthew 25 Ministries Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $9k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- AMA MATTER OF 50 METERS CO MASON PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
WE MAKE AUTISM AT WORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +30%- CCCLINTON CITY BOARD OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIESone grant, 2022 · $10k
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 mission of The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) is to educate, entertain and engage audiences of all ages through professional theatrical productions and arts education programming. Our vision is to awaken a lifelong love of…
Unlocking the self-worth and potential of at-risk teens through the transformative power of art, a first-class environment and a character-building culture. Equipping at-risk teens with skills, credentials and pathways to employment.…
To create community driven public art and launch careers for youth and artists.
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
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…
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Association of the United States Army. 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 23 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 62 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 Wright State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds WE MAKE AUTISM AT WORK INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFE ON MAIN INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds LIFE REMODELED ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST CHESTERLIBERT ↗
- Who funds IV-CHARIS ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN CAR CARE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TRANSPLANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LOVELIKEJJ ↗
- Who funds Emerge Recovery and Trades Initiative ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds Ray of Hope Foundation ↗
- Who funds Camp Daniel Inc ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
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: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Duke Energy Foundation · Millstone Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Hcs Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Louise Taft Semple 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 Makino Foundation (Fka the Leblond Foundation of Makino) 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.
- We Make Autism at Work Inc — 2% of income from government
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.