· Private foundation
Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $273k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k6 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $101k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $90,300 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $65,100 |
| NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $39,100 |
| WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY | $27,600 |
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY | $18,400 |
| ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI | $16,000 |
| CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY | $4,600 |
| THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY | $2,300 |
| CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,300 |
| MT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY | $2,300 |
| ANTIOCH COLLEGE | $2,300 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON | $2,300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of your 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.
13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down. Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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 UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2023 · $70k · revenue +13%
- AAART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI4× · 2020–2023 · $55k · revenue +13%
- UOUniversity of Dayton4× · 2020–2023 · $29k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATIone grant, 2020 · $20k
- ECEarlham College Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +57%
- WUWILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +25%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thomas More University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Central State University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Wilmington College ↗
- Who funds Cedarville University ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Earlham College Inc ↗
- Who funds WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Tr Uw Chas E Schell Education · Thomas R Schiff Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc 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.