Ohio · Private foundation
The Warren & Bernice Hensel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $28k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $309k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Warren & Bernice Hensel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $28k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $26k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $24k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $24k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $25k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $23k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freestore Foodbank Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Crayons and Beyond Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Neediest Kids of All | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Women Helping Women | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Inter Parish Ministry Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| La Soupe Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Joseph Orphanage | $4,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Cincinnati Museum Center | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Josh Cares Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freestore Foodbank Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Crayons and Beyond Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Neediest Kids of All | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Women Helping Women | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Inter Parish Ministry Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| La Soupe Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Joseph Orphanage | $4,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Cincinnati Museum Center | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Josh Cares Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Junior League of Cincinnati | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($78k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Warren & Bernice Hensel Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
Compare The Warren & Bernice Hensel Foundation with peer funders
About The Warren & Bernice Hensel Foundation
- How much does The Warren & Bernice Hensel Foundation give?
- The Warren & Bernice Hensel Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $27,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Warren & Bernice Hensel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are The Warren & Bernice Hensel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Freestore Foodbank Inc ($12k), Crayons and Beyond Inc ($12k), Neediest Kids of All ($10k).
- Does The Warren & Bernice Hensel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Warren & Bernice Hensel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Warren & Bernice Hensel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation, The Thomas J Emery Memorial.
- Where is The Warren & Bernice Hensel Foundation based?
- The Warren & Bernice Hensel Foundation is based in OH.
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