· Private foundation
The Otto M Budig 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 FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $195k
- $250k+1 grant · $455k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | $455,000 |
| CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO | $82,500 |
| CARNEGIE CENTER | $62,500 |
| CINCINNATI BALLET | $50,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI | $20,000 |
| THE OHIO JUSTICE & POLICY CENTER | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK | $1,500 |
| ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI | $1,000 |
| NATERA ASSOCIATION | $300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of your 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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- CSCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY3× · 2023–2025 · $818k · revenue -60%
- TCThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $225k · revenue -1%
- CPCincinnati Public Radio Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $153k · revenue -27%
Funded once
- CCClifton Cultural Arts Centerone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +8%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S THEATREone grant, 2024 · $10k
- ETENSEMBLE THEATREone grant, 2023 · $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.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Know Theatre is a small professional theatre showcasing voices, new works, & plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic…
Classical Theatre Company is dedicated to boldly re-envisioning classical drama on the stage, in the community, and in the classroom through engaging and enlightening plays that bring them new life and relevance while maintaining the…
To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
Classic Theatre of Marylands mission is to produce bold re-imagined entertaining and accessible interpretations of classical works contemporary plays and musicals with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other major…
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…
To raise consciousness and nurture compassion through ground-breaking performances and life-changing educational programs
Produced, conducted and staged performances such as Nutcracker/Wizard of Oz/Coppelia.
The mission of the cincinnati symphony orchestra is to seek and share inspiration.
The Greater Cincinnati Film Commission is dedicated to maximizing the area's economic potential by attracting, promoting and cultivating film, television, and commercial production throughout Greater Cincinnati. Once filmmakers choose…
Knoxville Childrens Theatre, Inc. produces meaningful theatrical productions for children and families and serves the community through outreach and educational programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the most unlike its peers is Clifton Cultural Arts Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 12 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 SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Public Radio Inc ↗
- Who funds Clifton Cultural Arts Center ↗
- Who funds The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI ↗
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 Thomas J Emery Memorial · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Millstone Fund · Friedlander Family Fund · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005
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 Otto M Budig 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.