· Private foundation
Thomas & Kelly Lieser Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY | $12,800 |
| ST MARY SCHOOL - ANNUAL FUND | $10,000 |
| DEPAUL CRISTO REY | $6,000 |
| ST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,353 |
| ST MARY'S HYDE PARK | $5,200 |
| CISE | $2,500 |
| CINCINNATI TENNNIS FOUNDATION | $2,100 |
| ST MARY SCHOOL - SMS GYM SPONSORSHIP | $1,600 |
| QTEGO FUNDRAISING SERVICES | $1,500 |
| ARTSWAVE | $1,500 |
| ST FRANCIS DE SALES | $1,080 |
| FRIARS CLUB INC | $1,000 |
| SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC MINISTRIES APPEAL | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- XUXAVIER UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $41k · revenue +8%
- TCThe Cincinnati Tennis Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +226%
- ODOUR DAILY BREAD3× · 2022–2025 · $3k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- WCWOMEN'S CARE CENTER OF CINCINNATIone grant, 2024 · $10k
- SMST MARY'S SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND 2021-22one grant, 2021 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
To strengthen underserved neighborhoods and improve lives through innovative financing.
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
The Greater Cincinnati Film Commission is dedicated to maximizing the area's economic potential by attracting, promoting and cultivating film, television, and commercial production throughout Greater Cincinnati. Once filmmakers choose…
The purpose of Hillel is to be a center for enriching the lives of Jewish students in the Greater Cincinnati area and to strengthen Jewish identity through social and a broad range of programs and services in an atmosphere that is…
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
The specific purposes for which the foundation is formed are to provide financial support, and otherwise engage in or support efforts, activities, operations or projects intended to provide to children and families who are among the most…
The cincinnati concours foundation produces a three day weekend of fundraisers to benefit the juvenile arthritis programs and services of the arthritis foundation ohio river valley/great lakes region
Welcomers community volunteer network of cincinnati usa/ northern kentucky is a network designed to connect area residents, who enjoy volunteering and welcoming visitors, with local attractions and arts, cultural and special events. the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Greater Cincinnati Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Brandon C Gromada Head & Neck Cancer Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 51 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 XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Tennis Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS DESALES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHARES OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds Corporation for Findlay Market ↗
- Who funds Friars Club Inc ↗
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 Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Bob & Felicia Burger Family Foundation · Williams Foundation · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · The Northern Cincinnai Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Thomas & Kelly Lieser Family Foundation 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.