· Private foundation
The Warren & Bernice Hensel 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER | $2,000 |
| WGUC - CINTI PUBLIC RADIO | $2,000 |
| MIAMI PROJECT TO CURE PARALYSIS | $2,000 |
| CINTI LAB RETRIEVERS RESCUE | $2,000 |
| CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS | $2,000 |
| WCET | $2,000 |
| FREESTORE FOODBANK | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL | $2,000 |
| SHELTERHOUSE GROUP | $1,000 |
| WOMEN HELPING WOMEN | $1,000 |
| CINCINNATI HABITIAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| THE ABILITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| LA SOUPE | $1,000 |
| NEWPATH CHILD & FAMILY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Warren & Bernice Hensel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Warren & Bernice Hensel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Play a game based on Warren & Bernice Hensel’s filings →