· Private foundation
The Oliver Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $555k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+2 grants · $610k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| USS CINCINNATI MEMORIAL & PEACE PAVILION | $100,000 |
| THE CHRIST HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| CINCINNATI PARKS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $100,000 |
| FREESTOREFOODBANK | $100,000 |
| LADD | $100,000 |
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 (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 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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you 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
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; $265k 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
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +41%
- TMTAFT MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +48%
- BHBEECHWOOD HOME7× · 2017–2025 · $984k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINEone grant, 2022 · $350k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +26%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGEOF MEDone grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
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.
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 Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
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…
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…
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.
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and 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.
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 50 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 106 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 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Oliver 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.
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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