· Private foundation
The Warren & Bernice Hensel 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS | $2,000 |
| WCET | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL | $2,000 |
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER | $2,000 |
| WGUC - CINTI PUBLIC RADIO | $2,000 |
| MIAMI PROJECT TO CURE PARALYSIS | $2,000 |
| CINTI LAB RETRIEVERS RESCUE | $2,000 |
| FREESTORE FOODBANK | $2,000 |
| THE ABILITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| LA SOUPE | $1,000 |
| INTERPARISH MINISTRY | $1,000 |
| SHELTERHOUSE GROUP | $1,000 |
| WOMEN HELPING WOMEN | $1,000 |
| CINCINNATI HABITIAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CACRAYONS AND BEYOND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +152%
- WHWOMEN HELPING WOMEN6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +210%
- TGThe Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SASALAVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $2k
- NKNEEDIEST KODS OF ALLone grant, 2021 · $2k
- WCWGUC - CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIOone grant, 2020 · $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.
Tranforms lives inspiring hope by providing nutritious food,crisis assistance,resources and compassion that respects human dignity building a more vibrant community. feeding bodies and souls through its choice food pantry,weekly community…
Everyone should have access to healthy, nutritious food. Together with our partners, we provide nutritious food to those in need. We do this through collaborating with more than 100 partner agencies, which include emergency pantries, soup…
Last Mile is a Greater Cincinnati food rescue organization on a mission to save good food and get it to those who need it most. We empower local change-makers to make a critical difference in the lives of our neighbors fighting food…
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
To increase the landfill diversion, recycling, and reuse rates of the greater cincinnati area. we do this to help mitigate the effects of climate change, which disproportionately affects communities of color around the world. we find ways…
Cleveland public market corporations mission is to preserve the city's public market tradition while making the local food system more accessible, equitable, and diverse.
The World Affairs Council, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, is the bridge that connects the world to one of America's most vibrant regions. Through Global education, International exchange, and cultural awareness initiatives, the council strengthens…
Your Store of the Queen Citys mission empowers neighborhood-based entities to expand fresh food access & create community-based jobs by supporting the development & networking of resident- centered, culturally & economically inclusive…
Cincinnati works brings hope and encouragement to people living in poverty while assisting them in advancing to self-sufficiency through employment. we provide free training and coaching services.
To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freestore Foodbank Inc and the most unlike its peers is La Soupe Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 29 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 FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL ↗
- Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
- Who funds The Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Inter Parish Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOSH CARES INC ↗
- Who funds Junior League 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 Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Warren & Bernice Hensel 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.