· Private foundation
Timberhill Ltd Foundation Corp
Its FY2023 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 Timberhill Ltd Foundation Corp’s FY2023 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. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Timberhill Ltd Foundation Corp named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $24k. 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES | $6,000 |
| FREE STORE FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| CINCINNATI WORKS | $4,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $2,500 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN FREE HEALTH CENTER | $1,500 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD | $1,000 |
| CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS | $1,000 |
| GREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION | $1,000 |
| PETS IN NEED OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $1,000 |
| TRISTATE VETERANS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $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 (FY17–21, $39k) 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Timberhill Ltd Foundation Corp’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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 FY2021, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- ICINNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES5× · 2017–2021 · $18k · revenue +75%
- FFFREESTORE FOODBANK INC5× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +61%
- CWCINCINNATI WORKS5× · 2017–2021 · $14k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- ACARTWORKS CINCINNATIone grant, 2018 · $1k
- LSLA SOUPE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +589%
- DFDress for Success Cincinnatigraduatedone grant, 2017 · $600 · revenue +73%
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 resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
Tranforms lives inspiring hope by providing nutritious food,crisis assistance,resources and compassion that respects human dignity building a more vibrant community. feeding bodies and souls through its choice food pantry,weekly community…
Working together to ensure everyone in our communities has the nutritious food they need every day.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Glean kentucky nourishes kentucky's hungry by rescuing and redistributing surplus fresh foods.
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
Tri-state food bank, inc solicits, warehouses, and disburses donated and purchased food products to other not-for-profit entities in indiana, illinois, and kentucky.
We empower people on their journey to independence through the sale of donated goods, which supports employment programs and family services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freestore Foodbank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tristate Veterans Community Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 18 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 INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Pets in Need of Greater Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds Tristate Veterans Community Alliance ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM A LA CART ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Keep Cincinnati Beautiful 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 · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Trust Estate of George B Riley · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Timberhill Ltd Foundation Corp 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.