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The William Albers Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$123k
Granted FY2020
16
Grants FY2020
16
Organizations funded FY2020
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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

13
’20
0
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$33,000
States reached, FY2020
2
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Philanthropy$2.0MEducation$45kHuman Services$41kFood & Nutrition$10kArts & Culture$9kHealth$5kReligion$5kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The William Albers Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetXavier University: $33,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Chatfield Edge: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe First Step Home Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFreestore Foodbank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dragonfly Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOur Daily Bread: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDiocesan Catholic Children's Home Inc: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSociety of St Vincent de Paul Council: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStrategies to End Homelessness Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Nurturing Center of Kentucky: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPleasant Ridge School Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH25.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The William Albers Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The William Albers Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The William Albers Foundation

How much does The William Albers Foundation give?
The William Albers Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $122,600 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does The William Albers Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (94%), Education (2%), Human Services (2%).
Who are The William Albers Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Xavier University ($33k), Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ($25k), The Chatfield Edge ($10k).
Does The William Albers Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The William Albers Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund, Charles H Dater Foundation Inc.
Where is The William Albers Foundation based?
The William Albers Foundation is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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