· Private foundation
The Watersplash Giving 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC | $7,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION | $7,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF | $6,000 |
| FREESTORE-FOODBANK INC | $6,000 |
| TENDER MERCIES INC | $6,000 |
| THE FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC | $6,000 |
| EXTRAFOOD ORG | $6,000 |
| LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL WELFARE | $6,000 |
| CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS INC | $6,000 |
| CISE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SAN FRANCISCO ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY MATTERS CINCINNATI INC | $5,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION ADVOCACY COALITION | $5,000 |
| CAIN CINCY | $5,000 |
| COVERED GREATER CINCINNATI | $4,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% of those 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 +17% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- PWPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +5%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION3× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +33%
- CACRAYONS AND BEYOND INC3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +108%
Funded once
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL PARTICULAR COUNCILone grant, 2024 · $5k
- ODOUR DAILY BREADgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +33%
- 11N5one grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
The mission of the afl-cio is to improve the lives of working families, to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation.
To eliminate hunger and food insecurity in our community by increasing access to food and necessities for those who need it most within the city of dublin and dublin school district. the dublin food pantry relies on community partnerships,…
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
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…
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
The mission of ohio tri county food alliance/second harvest food bank is to alleviate hunger in clark, champaign, and logan counties by sourcing and distributing nutritious food to people in need, building community partnerships, and…
United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coverd Greater Cincinnati and the most unlike its peers is Haight Ashbury Food Program. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 28 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 PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds League for Animal Welfare ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds Community Matters Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
- Who funds OHIO NETWORK OF CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS ↗
- Who funds CAIN CINCY ↗
- Who funds CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVERD GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds TENDER MERCIES INC ↗
- Who funds Extrafood ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds OPERATION GIVE BACK ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of San Francisco Animal Care and Control ↗
- Who funds OHIO SUICIDE PREVENTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Haight Ashbury Food Program ↗
- Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI Rhode Island ↗
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 · Andrew Jergens Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Farmer Family Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd
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 Watersplash Giving 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.