· Private foundation
Thomas R Schiff Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $125k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $250k+2 grants · $773k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOTOFOCUS | $391,133 |
| APERTURE FOUNDATION | $382,195 |
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $30,000 |
| ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI | $10,000 |
| COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART | $9,500 |
| ALICE F & HARRIS K WESTON ART GALLERY | $8,000 |
| TAFT MUSEUM OF ART | $7,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $6,500 |
| WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| KENNEDY HEIGHTS ART CENTER | $5,000 |
| WEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
79 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- TCThe Contemporary Arts Center7× · 2017–2023 · $438k · revenue +1%
- AAART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI8× · 2017–2024 · $171k · revenue +55%
- TCTHE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- CTCREATIVE TIME INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -38%
- CCCARNEGIE CENTER FOR ART & HISTORYone grant, 2019 · $25k
- MUMIAMI UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF CREATIVE ARTSone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…
We are Cincinnati's national theater - committed to bringing diverse, engaging works of great artistry to our community, and to putting Cincinnati's artistic excellence in the national spotlight.
To educate the public about important art and improving the public's access to it through curated programming.
Rochester art center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse…
Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.
Kmac is louisvilles premier contemporary art museum in downtown louisville on museum row. through exhibitions, education, and outreach, kmac works to connect people to art and creative practice.
The museum's mission is to enrich lives through preservation, exploration, enlightenment and amazement.
For 124 years, the toledo museum of art has offered free admission to one of the world's great art collections housed in its greek revival main building and the glass pavilion. the museum has an extensive education program, offering…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Lloyd Library & Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
55 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. 55 of the 102 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 APERTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE TIME INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Wave Pool Corp ↗
- Who funds ART OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN ↗
- Who funds WEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Kennedy Heights Arts Center ↗
- Who funds Manifest Creative Research Gallery ↗
- Who funds MINI MICROCINEMA ↗
- Who funds Visionaries and Voices ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Lloyd Library & Museum ↗
- Who funds THE SEEDLING FOUNDATION OF DAYTON OHIO ↗
- Who funds Contemporary Dayton Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Clifton Cultural Arts Center ↗
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: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts · Earthward Bound Foundation · The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Millstone Fund · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · George & Margaret McLane Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Ohio Valley Foundation Fifth Third Bank
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 R Schiff 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
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.
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