· Private foundation
The Off Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| K BROWNING MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI ART CLUB | $5,000 |
| POMFRET SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| INDIAN HILL CHURCH | $1,600 |
| TAFT MUSEUM OF ART | $1,500 |
| CINCINNATI ZOO | $1,500 |
| CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $1,250 |
| THE MADELEINE GORDON GIFT OF LIFE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LIGONIER FENCING CLUB INC | $1,000 |
| FREESTORE FOODBANK | $850 |
| ARTSWAVE | $650 |
| CINCINNATI PARKS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI ACADEMY & OFFICES | $500 |
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, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 63% 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
- CMCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION8× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +21%
- CCCINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $6k · revenue +36%
- CACINCINNATI ART CLUB2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHUCHone grant, 2020 · $2k
- AHAMERICAN HISTORICAL PRINT COLLECTIONone grant, 2022 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $1k
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 CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
We are Cincinnati's national theater - committed to bringing diverse, engaging works of great artistry to our community, and to putting Cincinnati's artistic excellence in the national spotlight.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
Cma is dedicated to creating its mission of providing "great experiences with great art for everyone".
Our mission is to operate, maintain, and oversee an independent college of art and design.
Cincinnati children's hospital medical center will be the leader in improving child health. cincinnati children's will provide child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education,…
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
The cleveland botanical garden connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Ligonier Fencing Club Inc. 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 55 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 51 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 CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI ART CLUB ↗
- Who funds MADELEINE H GORDON DBA GIFT OF LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER FENCING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds Inter Parish Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds MARIN FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds ART OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING GROVE INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
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 · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · The Oliver Family Foundation · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1 · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Millstone Fund · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens 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 Off Family Foundation 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.
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation 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.