· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| DEPAUL CRISTO REY | $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 |
| CATHOLIC MINISTRIES APPEAL | $1,000 |
| IN CORPORATION - FINDLAY MARKET | $1,000 |
| FRIARS CLUB INC | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 51 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 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 Friars Club Inc ↗
- Who funds Corporation for Findlay Market ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas & Kelly Lieser Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas & Kelly Lieser Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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