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The Otto M Budig Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$683k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$455k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.4MCrime & Legal$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $195k
  • $250k+1 grant · $455k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$512
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CLIFTON CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $25k → 16%CARNEGIE CENTER: $63k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $20k → 16%CARNEGIE CENTER: $25k → 11%CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO: $83k → 16%CARNEGIE CENTER: $19k → 11%CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO: $40k → 16%CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO: $30k → 16%CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $455k → 16%CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $200k → 16%CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $163k → 16%CINCINNATI BALLET: $100k → 16%CINCINNATI BALLET: $75k → 16%CINCINNATI BALLET: $50k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $10k → 16%THE OHIO JUSTICE & POLICY CENTER: $10k → 16%THE OHIO JUSTICE & POLICY CENTER: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK: $2k → 16%ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $1k → 16%ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $1k → 16%NATERA ASSOCIATION: $300 → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 5 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$1.3M
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+8%

Still filing today

80%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • CS
    CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $818k · revenue -60%
  • TC
    The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $225k · revenue -1%
  • CP
    Cincinnati Public Radio Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $153k · revenue -27%

Funded once

  • CC
    Clifton Cultural Arts Center
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +8%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • ET
    ENSEMBLE THEATRE
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
2
Know Theatre of Cincinnati

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Classical Theatre Company

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…

Arts & Culture
4
The City Theatre Company Inc

To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Classic Theatre of Maryland Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Cleveland Public Theatre Inc

To raise consciousness and nurture compassion through ground-breaking performances and life-changing educational programs

Arts & Culture
9
Ballet Theatre of Ohio Inc

Produced, conducted and staged performances such as Nutcracker/Wizard of Oz/Coppelia.

Arts & Culture
10
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

The mission of the cincinnati symphony orchestra is to seek and share inspiration.

Arts & Culture
11
The Greater Cincinnati Film Commission

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…

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12
Knoxville Childrens Theatre Inc

Knoxville Childrens Theatre, Inc. produces meaningful theatrical productions for children and families and serves the community through outreach and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; 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.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
1/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $817,500 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANYThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $225,000 · Arts & CultureThe Cincinnati Ballet Company IncCincinnati Public Radio Inc: $152,500 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Public Radio Inc+4 more: $47,500 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE CENTER: $106,240 · OtherCARNEGIE …THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $10,000 · OtherTHE CHILD…+2 more: $1,300 · OtherOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER: $15,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$1,242,500Other$117,540Civil Rights$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $817,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $225,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCincinnati Public Radio Inc: $152,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetClifton Cultural Arts Center: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

The Thomas J Emery Me…John a Schroth Family…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Frances R Luther …The Wohlgemuth Hersch…Louise Taft Semple Fo…Millstone FundFriedlander Family Fu…Charles H Dater Found…Andrew Jergens Founda…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…
The Thomas J Emery MemorialOH20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Otto M Budig Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Otto M Budig Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 12 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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