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The Matt Haverkamp Foundation

To provide k-9's and related equipment to police departments.

$254k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$698kPublic Safety & Disaster$18k
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $237,600, the rows itemized in this filing. The $253,699 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,099 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $154k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$145k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLERAIN TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT$19,750
Individual grant recipient$19,000
MIAMI TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT$18,100
BOONE COUNTY SHERIFF ORGANIZATION$17,000
Individual grant recipient$17,000
BOONE COUNTY SHERIFF ORGANIZATION$15,600
HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE$13,125
HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE$13,125
CINCINNATI POLICE DEPARTMENT$11,700
HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,800
FOREST PARK POLICE DEPARTMENT$9,800
CINCINNATI POLICE DEPARTMENT$9,400
CINCINNATI POLICE DEPARTMENT$9,400
CINCINNATI POLICE DEPARTMENT$9,400
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HAMILTON TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT: $16k → 6%CLERMONT COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $15k → 9%ROSS POLICE DEPARTMENT: $17k → 12%BLANCHESTER POLICE DEPARTMENT: $19k → 12%MIAMISBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 14%BOONE COUNTY SHERIFF ORGANIZATION: $17k → 7%FORT THOMAS POLICE DEPARTMENT: $14k → 10%INDEPENDENCE POLICE DEPARTMENT: $17k → 11%MIAMI TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT: $18k → 9%FAIRFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT: $16k → 12%WILMINGTON POLICE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $15k → 16%BOONE COUNTY SHERIFF ORGANIZATION: $16k → 7%NOTHERN KY DRUG STRIKE FORCE: $13k → 11%WEST CHESTER POLICE DEPARTMENT: $17k → 12%SABINA POLICE DEPARTMENT: $12k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $14k → 16%BOONE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $16k → 7%INDEPENDENCE POLICE DEPARTMENT: $15k → 11%LOVELAND POLICE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 9%WEST CHESTER POLICE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $13k → 16%BUTLER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $14k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $13k → 16%ERLANGER POLICE DEPARTMENT: $16k → 11%BUTLER COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE: $14k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $10k → 16%BUTLER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $13k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $9k → 16%CITY OF HAMILTON POLICE: $9k → 12%CITY OF HAMILTON POLICE: $9k → 12%CINCINNATI POLICE DEPARTMENT: $12k → 16%CINCINNATI POLICE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 16%CINCINNATI POLICE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 16%CINCINNATI POLICE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 16%CINCINNATI POLICE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 16%CINCINNATI POLICE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 16%CINCINNATI POLICE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 16%CINCINNATI POLICE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 16%CINCINNATI POLICE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 16%CINCINNATI POLICE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 16%COLERAIN TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT: $20k → 16%COLERAIN TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 16%MADEIRA POLICE DEPARTMENT: $14k → 16%LOCKLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 16%AMBERLEY VILLAGE POLICE DEPARTMENT: $17k → 16%HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $10k → 16%FOREST PARK POLICE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$396k · 7 repeat orgs$321k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
19

Total granted

$396k
$233k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CP
    CINCINNATI POLICE DEPARTMENT
    6× · 2019–2025 · $142k
  • HC
    HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
    4× · 2020–2025 · $101k
  • BC
    BUTLER COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
    3× · 2020–2023 · $41k

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF HAMILTON POLICE
    one grant, 2020 · $18k
  • AV
    AMBERLEY VILLAGE POLICE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2024 · $17k
  • HT
    HAMILTON TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $16k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2019–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2019 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CINCINNATI POLICE DEPARTMENT: $142,305 · OtherCINCINNATI POLICE DEPARTMENTHAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $101,104 · OtherHAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICEBUTLER COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE: $40,500 · OtherBUTLER COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICEBOONE COUNTY SHERIFF ORGANIZATION: $32,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $31,500 · OtherCOLERAIN TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT: $28,750 · OtherWEST CHESTER POLICE DEPARTMENT: $26,000 · OtherMIAMI TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT: $25,447 · Other+23 more: $288,200 · Other+23 more
Other$716,406

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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How do I get to The Matt Haverkamp Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Matt Haverkamp Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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