· Private foundation
The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $35,000 |
| GREATER CINCINNATI TELEVISION | $25,000 |
| CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO INC | $25,000 |
| MANIFEST CREATIVE RESEARCH GALLERY AND | $15,000 |
| MERCANTILE LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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 +127% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- TMTAFT MUSEUM OF ART3× · 2021–2023 · $80k · revenue -39%
- GCGREATER CINCINNATI TELEVISION3× · 2021–2024 · $70k
- CSCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- GCGreater Cincinnati Television Educationaone grant, 2020 · $20k
- CICincinnati Institute of Fine Artsone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +2%
- MCManifest Creative Research Gallery & Draone grant, 2020 · $12k
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.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
Know Theatre is a small professional theatre showcasing voices, new works, & plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic…
Classical Theatre Company is dedicated to boldly re-envisioning classical drama on the stage, in the community, and in the classroom through engaging and enlightening plays that bring them new life and relevance while maintaining the…
To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.
Classic Theatre of Marylands mission is to produce bold re-imagined entertaining and accessible interpretations of classical works contemporary plays and musicals with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other major…
The Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA), a not-for-profit, was founded in 1990 to serve as a manager, presenter and educator. CAA's mission is to present a broad range of high quality performing and visual arts programs, develop diverse…
To educate the public about important art and improving the public's access to it through curated programming.
Ten Thousand Things awakens the creative spirit of audiences and artists by bringing essential and exceptional theater to people from all backgrounds and life experiences.
Ensemble theatre of cincinnati is a professional theatre rooted in historic over-the- rhine, dedicated to engaging, enriching and inspiring audiences through our thought-provoking world and regional premier productions, creating and…
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
To raise consciousness and nurture compassion through ground-breaking performances and life-changing educational programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the most unlike its peers is La Soupe Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Public Radio Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds The Mercantile Library ↗
- Who funds Manifest Creative Research Gallery ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
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 Frances R Luther Charitable Trust · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Earthward Bound Foundation · Nlt Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Robert Adele Schiff Family Fdn Inc · Ohio Valley Foundation Fifth Third Bank · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts
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 S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth 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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