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Thomas R Schiff Foundation at a glance

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Thomas R Schiff Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$969k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$391k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$4.5MEducation$519kHuman Services$19kPublic Benefit$17kCivil Rights$12kCommunity Improvement$11kEnvironment$7kHealth$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k36 grants · $125k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $250k+2 grants · $773k
$3,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION$5,000
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY$5,000
KENNEDY HEIGHTS ART CENTER$5,000
CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER$5,000
COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LIVING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 79 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
20

Total granted

$4.9M
$169k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+24%

Still filing today

56%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    The Contemporary Arts Center
    7× · 2017–2023 · $438k · revenue +1%
  • AA
    ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI
    8× · 2017–2024 · $171k · revenue +55%
  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CT
    CREATIVE TIME INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -38%
  • CC
    CARNEGIE CENTER FOR ART & HISTORY
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • MU
    MIAMI UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF CREATIVE ARTS
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Cleveland Museum of Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
2
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
3
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
4
The Cleveland Institute of Art

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…

Education
5
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Contemporary Art Group

To educate the public about important art and improving the public's access to it through curated programming.

Arts & Culture
7
Rochester Art Center

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Fotofocus Cincinnati
Arts & Culture
9
Greater Columbus Arts Council

Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.

Arts & Culture
10
Kmac Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Evansville Museum of Arts History & Science

The museum's mission is to enrich lives through preservation, exploration, enlightenment and amazement.

Arts & Culture
12
The Toledo Museum of Art

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association; 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.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 102 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/55
Grantees still filing
33/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOTOFOCUS: $2,182,708 · OtherFOTOFOCUS+52 more: $574,268 · Other+52 moreAPERTURE FOUNDATION INC: $504,666 · Arts & CultureAPERTURE FOUNDATION INCThe Contemporary Arts Center: $437,843 · Arts & CultureThe Contemporary Arts CenterCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $182,698 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATIONTHE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $134,539 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTE…CREATIVE TIME INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $69,500 · Arts & Culture+26 more: $539,722 · Arts & Culture+26 moreART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI: $171,398 · EducationCOLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $47,500 · EducationWEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION: $47,000 · EducationYale University: $42,500 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $24,225 · EducationTHE SEEDLING FOUNDATION OF DAYTON OHIO: $19,700 · EducationANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION: $17,040 · Education+5 more: $40,012 · EducationCINCINNATI CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $6,000 · Community ImprovementCLIFTON TOWN MEETING: $2,400 · Community ImprovementCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $7,000 · EnvironmentLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $850 · Philanthropy
Other$2,756,976Arts & Culture$1,968,968Education$409,375Community Improvement$8,400Environment$7,000Human Services$5,000Philanthropy$850

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAPERTURE FOUNDATION INC: $504,666 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetThe Contemporary Arts Center: $437,843 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $182,698 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI: $171,398 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $134,539 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $69,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWave Pool Corp: $63,400 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetART OPPORTUNITIES INC: $48,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCOLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $47,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION: $47,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $45,650 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE: $45,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $43,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $42,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION: $37,714 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKennedy Heights Arts Center: $32,800 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetManifest Creative Research Gallery: $32,350 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetMINI MICROCINEMA: $29,300 over 3y, 17% of budgetVisionaries and Voices: $26,600 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $24,225 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLloyd Library & Museum: $19,750 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SEEDLING FOUNDATION OF DAYTON OHIO: $19,700 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetContemporary Dayton Inc: $18,100 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION: $17,040 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $16,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetClifton Cultural Arts Center: $16,000 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $13,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC: $12,108 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM: $11,450 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetThe Mercantile Library: $8,462 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION: $8,290 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC: $7,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY: $7,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetExecutive Service Corps of Cincinnati: $6,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCINCINNATI CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC: $5,730 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetACTION TANK: $5,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVOYAGEUR MEDIA GROUP INC: $5,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetA PICTURES WORTH INC: $3,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINDFUL MOMENT: $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM: $2,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCLIFTON TOWN MEETING: $2,400 over 4y, 3.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Carol Ann and Ralph V…The Greater Cincinnat…Louise Taft Semple Fo…Cincinnati Institute …Earthward Bound Found…The Frances R Luther …The Thomas J Emery Me…Millstone FundCharles H Dater Found…George & Margaret McL…John a Schroth Family…Ohio Valley Foundatio…
Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr FoundationOH60.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thomas R Schiff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas R Schiff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Thomas R Schiff Foundation 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.

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 102 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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