· Private foundation
The Rockwern Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $520k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CET | $200,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $120,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINCINNATI | $100,000 |
| HOLOCAUST AND HUMANITY CENTER | $100,000 |
| CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK | $35,000 |
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO - WGUC | $20,000 |
| CIRCLE TAIL SUPPORT DOGS | $5,025 |
| ROOTS OF REFORM JUDAISM | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $249k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCThe Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education4× · 2019–2025 · $550k · revenue +263%
- JCJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati7× · 2018–2024 · $305k · revenue +61%
- CLCamp Livingston Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $305k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- 1S1ST STEP HOMEone grant, 2023 · $60k
- JJJDC - JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEEone grant, 2022 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
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.
The purpose of Hillel is to be a center for enriching the lives of Jewish students in the Greater Cincinnati area and to strengthen Jewish identity through social and a broad range of programs and services in an atmosphere that is…
Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati, Inc. serves the burial needs of the Greater Cincinnati Jewish community with care and dignity and honors the resting places of our people.
Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland builds, connects and strengthens our Jewish and Greater Cleveland communities through exceptional lifelong programs and services that reflect the richness of Jewish life and enhance physical,…
Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.
To further jewish historical education among youths
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
To explore the kaleidoscope of the American experience-using the courageous lessons of Jewish History as well as those of other individuals and communities that have thrived despite marginalization -to advocate for a world that builds…
The Jewish Community Relations Council is the public affairs arm of the organized Jewish community, building consensus on issues of concern, and then communicating those interests to policy makers, faith and ethnic communities, civic…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Center Of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Camp Livingston Inc ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds ISH FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CINCINNATI WOMAN'S CLUB ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds ROOTS OF REFORM JUDAISM INC ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Corky & Rick Steiner Family Foundation Philip H Steinerjoseph Steinertrustees · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Bernard and Pamela Barbash Family Foundation · Schimberg Family Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Rockwern Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rockwern Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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