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· Private foundation
THE WILLIAM S ROWE FOUNDATION CO FIFTH
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$125k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
1
Communities
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Arts & Culture$290kEducation$15kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$62k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
cincinnati
2021
cincinnati
2022
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2023
cincinnati
2024
capitalcincinnati
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$35,000
- CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO INC$25,000
- GREATER CINCINNATI TELEVISION$25,000
- MERCANTILE LIBRARY$15,000
- MANIFEST CREATIVE RESEARCH GALLERY AND$15,000
- CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK$10,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$245k · 4 repeat orgs$132k to everyone else
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
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
4
5
Total granted
$245k
$67k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+57%
+728%
Still filing today
100%
40%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionOther
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
- GCGREATER CINCINNATI TELEVISION3× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +41%
- CSCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +57%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI2× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- GCGreater Cincinnati Television Educationaone grant, 2020 · $20k
- AArtsWaveone grant, 2020 · $15k
- 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.
04Your field
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.
1
The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio
The mission of the contemporary theatre of ohio is to harness the transformational power of theatre for the current moment to inspire empathy in our community. we are responsive to community needs by producing productions for adults and…
Arts & Culture
2
Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts
With funding, services, and advocacy, ArtsWave fuels a more vibrant economy and connected community through the arts.
Arts & Culture
3
The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc
To enrich, expand, and excel in the art of dance through world-class performance, a high-caliber academy, and impactful education and engagement from local to global communities.
Arts & Culture
4
Cincinnati Opera Association Inc
To enrich and connect the community through diverse opera experiences.
Arts & Culture
5
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Arts & Culture
6
Know Theatre of Cincinnati
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…
Arts & Culture
7
Classical Theatre Company
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…
Arts & Culture
8
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
Opera Theatre's mission is to shape a vibrant future for opera by connecting, inspiring, and entertaining our communities; to foster the next generation; and to make opera accessible and inclusive.
Arts & Culture
9
Cleveland Museum of Art
To provide a collection of artwork representing achievement of individuals and civilizations, past and present, for the benefit of the public.
Arts & Culture
10
Cincinnati Arts Association
To present a broad range of high quality performing and visual arts programs, develop diverse audiences, foster an appreciation of the arts and an understanding of their forms, and encourage the use of CAA facilities by local and regional…
Arts & Culture
11
Chicago Shakespeare Theater
To create vivid, entertaining theatrical experiences that invigorate and engage people of all ages and identities by illuminating the complexity, ambiguity, and wonder of our world.
Arts & Culture
12
Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
Arts & Culture
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.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$290,000Other$62,000Education$15,000Food & Nutrition$10,000
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 GREATER CINCINNATI TELEVISION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds MERCANTILE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds La Soupe Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Shakespeare Company ↗
- 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.
Cincinnati Institute of Fine ArtsOH20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Earthward Bound Foundation · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr
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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MERCANTILE LIBRARY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 261603137 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on MERCANTILE LIBRARY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines