· Private foundation
The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +127% since the first grant, against +53% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 The Mercantile Library ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds Manifest Creative Research Gallery ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William S Rowe Foundation Co Fifth. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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