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The Oliver Family Foundation at a glance

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The Oliver Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.1MHealth$3.4MEnvironment$1.4MAnimals$1.3MRecreation & Sports$772kYouth Development$557kHuman Services$424kFood & Nutrition$397kOther$0
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $555k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+2 grants · $610k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$350,000
CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER$260,000
CINCINNATI ZOO & BOTANICAL GARDENS$200,000
CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$150,000
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM$140,000
EMERY THEATRETCT$125,000
TAFT MUSEUM OF ART$120,000
BEECHWOOD HOME$110,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI$100,000
CINCINNATI PARKS FOUNDATION$100,000
FREESTOREFOODBANK$100,000
THE CHRIST HOSPITAL$100,000
USS CINCINNATI MEMORIAL & PEACE PAVILION$100,000
CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER$100,000
LADD$100,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $413k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $25k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $10k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $10k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $10k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $10k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $1k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $1k → 16%CHILDRENS HOME OF CINCINNATI: $20k → 16%BEST POINT EDUCATION & BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $20k → 16%CHILDRENS HOME OF CINCINNATI: $20k → 16%BEST POINT EDUCATION & BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $20k → 16%BEST POINT EDUCATION & BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $20k → 16%CHILDRENS HOME OF CINCINNATI: $10k → 16%CHILDRENS HOME OF CINCINNATI: $1k → 16%CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $10k → 16%CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND & VISUAL: $5k → 16%CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $5k → 16%CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $5k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $15k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $15k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $10k → 16%KENZIES CLOSET: $5k → 16%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $5k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $50k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $50k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $30k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $5k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $5k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $2k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $5k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $5k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $5k → 16%NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL: $3k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 70 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

70 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
28

Total granted

$12M
$760k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+25%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +41%
  • TM
    TAFT MUSEUM OF ART
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +48%
  • BH
    BEECHWOOD HOME
    7× · 2017–2025 · $984k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2022 · $350k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +26%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGEOF MED
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Contemporary Arts Center

The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.

Arts & Culture
2
Cincinnati Observatory Center

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Cincinnati Public Radio Inc

Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.

Arts & Culture
5
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.

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6
Cintrifuse

To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.

Community Improvement
7
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber Foundation

To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.

Community Improvement
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
9
Cincinnati Arts Association

The Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA), a not-for-profit, was founded in 1990 to serve as a manager, presenter and educator. CAA's mission is to present a broad range of high quality performing and visual arts programs, develop diverse…

Arts & Culture
10
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
11
Cincinnati Zoo Foundation Inc

Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.

Animals
12
Greater Cincinnati Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc

The cincinnati usa convention & visitors bureau is an aggressive sales, marketing, and service organization. our primary responsibility is to positively impact the region's area economy through convention, tradeshow and visitor…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association; the most unlike its peers is Manifest Creative Research Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 106 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
45/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $1,150,000 · OtherUC COLLEGE OF MEDICINEEMERY THEATRETCT: $400,000 · OtherEMERY THEATRETCTUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $350,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MED…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $320,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNAT…THE INDIAN HILL CHURCH: $180,000 · OtherFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $290,000 · OtherFREESTORE FOODBANK INC+54 more: $1,930,500 · Other+54 moreCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $1,215,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATIONTAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $1,035,000 · Arts & CultureTAFT MUSEUM OF ARTCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $370,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTERCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $320,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati: $242,500 · Arts & CultureThe Children's Theatre of Cinc…+11 more: $414,000 · Arts & Culture+11 moreCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $860,000 · EnvironmentCINCINNATI …THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $245,000 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN …CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $80,000 · EnvironmentCIVIC GARDE…CARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCY: $60,000 · EnvironmentLEELANAU CONSERVANCY: $50,000 · Environment+4 more: $111,000 · Environment+4 moreZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $1,135,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL…Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $110,000 · AnimalsAtlantic S…BEECHWOOD HOME: $984,000 · HealthBEECHWOOD…The Christ Hospital: $100,000 · HealthThe Chris…+6 more: $87,500 · Health+6 moreLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc: $235,000 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STONES INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $111,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $67,000 · Human ServicesKENZIE'S CLOSET: $57,000 · Human ServicesClovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired: $25,000 · Human Services+3 more: $22,500 · Human ServicesCincinnati Parks Foundation: $602,000 · Recreation & SportsTRAILBLAZERS BOOSTER CLUB: $35,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$4,620,500Arts & Culture$3,596,500Environment$1,406,000Animals$1,245,000Health$1,171,500Human Services$647,500Recreation & Sports$637,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $1,215,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $1,135,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $1,035,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetBEECHWOOD HOME: $984,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $860,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation: $602,000 over 7y, 8.8% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $370,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $320,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $320,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $290,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $245,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati: $242,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc: $235,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC: $130,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $111,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Christ Hospital: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $93,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDress for Success Cincinnati: $89,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $80,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $80,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetHOPEFUL HORIZONS: $70,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $67,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCY: $60,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetKENZIE'S CLOSET: $57,000 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetManifest Creative Research Gallery: $55,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMUSIC HALL REVITALIZATION COMPANY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEELANAU CONSERVANCY: $50,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $45,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetINDIAN HILL FOUNDATION: $41,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTHE HILLSIDE TRUST: $41,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetTRAILBLAZERS BOOSTER CLUB: $35,000 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetJoy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCancerFree KIDS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetART OPPORTUNITIES INC: $30,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCorporation for Findlay Market: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $27,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNEW COMMUNITY VISION: $25,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetClovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHistoric Southwest Ohio Inc: $19,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetYWCA of Greater Cincinnati: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of 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.

  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds BEECHWOOD HOME ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc ↗
  • Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
  • Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Christ Hospital ↗
  • Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
  • Who funds Dress for Success Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
  • Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Louise Taft Semple Fo…The Thomas J Emery Me…The Greater Cincinnat…Johnson Charitable Gi…The James J and Joan …Sutphin Family Founda…Millstone FundCarol Ann and Ralph V…Andrew Jergens Founda…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Williams FoundationThe Wohlgemuth Hersch…
Louise Taft Semple FoundationOH51.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Millstone Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Williams Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Oliver Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Oliver Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Oliver Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Oliver Family 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 106 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-PF 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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