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The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$125k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$125k67%
FY20234$100k25%
FY20221$25k0%
FY20213$60k100%
FY20205$67kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$352kEducation$15kFood & Nutrition$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($102k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTaft Museum of Art: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCincinnati Symphony Orchestra: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCincinnati Public Radio Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Mercantile Library: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetManifest Creative Research Gallery: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLa Soupe Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 9.

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 Frances R Luther Charitable TrustOH17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth?

Find your warmest path to The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth 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 S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth

How much does The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth give?
The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth reported 6 grants totaling $125,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (93%), Education (4%), Food & Nutrition (3%).
Who are The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Taft Museum of Art ($80k), Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra ($60k), The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ($35k).
Does The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust, Louise Taft Semple Foundation, The Thomas J Emery Memorial.
Where is The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth based?
The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth 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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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