· Private foundation
The William Albers Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The William Albers Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Johnson Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The William Albers Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $123k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k13 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY | $33,000 |
| CINCINNATI ASSOC FOR THE BLIND | $25,000 |
| CHATFIELD COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| ARTSWAVE | $9,000 |
| FIRST STEP HOME | $7,500 |
| CET | $5,000 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD | $5,000 |
| FREESTORE-FOODBANK INC | $5,000 |
| DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DCCH CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES | $3,600 |
| SISTERS OF ST URSULA | $3,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL CINCINNATI | $2,500 |
| FAMILY NURTURING CENTER | $2,500 |
| STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS INC | $2,500 |
| PLEASANT RUN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.
To strengthen underserved neighborhoods and improve lives through innovative financing.
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.
Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
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,…
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…
Tri-state food bank, inc solicits, warehouses, and disburses donated and purchased food products to other not-for-profit entities in indiana, illinois, and kentucky.
Creating lasting results that strengthen families and our community by guiding individuals from infancy to independence through comprehensive education, behavioral, and health services.
Transforming generosity into impact by encouraging, supporting, and facilitating philanthropy to create more vibrant communities in northern cincinnati.
The UWGC Foundation provides a flexible vehicle to perpetuate financial support of UWGC, its initiatives, its agencies, and the human services they provide.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of St Vincent De Paul Council and the most unlike its peers is Family Nurturing Center of Kentucky. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds THE CHATFIELD EDGE ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST STEP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Strategies to End Homelessness Inc ↗
- Who funds Family Nurturing Center of Kentucky ↗
- Who funds PLEASANT RIDGE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Inc · William P Anderson Foundation Central Trust · George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Spaulding 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 William Albers 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.
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