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Tql Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$563k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$3.2MEducation$1.8MHealth$1.2MYouth Development$835kReligion$456kHuman Services$437kEmployment$434kCrime & Legal$208kOther$0
02FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $120k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $411k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $436k
  • $250k+2 grants · $813k
$8,265
Median grant
8
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION$563,180
GUARDIAN ANGELS PARISHCHURCH$250,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CINCINNATI$111,065
CINCINNATI WORKS$75,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER CINCINNATI$50,000
SOUTHWEST OHIO REGIONAL FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC$50,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GREATER CINCINNATI$50,000
RADIAL HEALTH$50,000
ST CHRISTOPHER'S TRUCK RELIEF FUND$50,000
CUBS CHARITIES$35,000
GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE$30,000
ARTSWAVE$30,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$28,125
VARIOUS POLICE DEPARTMENTS$27,265
CANCER FREE KIDS$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $526k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RANFURLY HOMES FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 13%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ORPHANETWORK: $400 → 10%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%MOST VALUABLE KIDS: $5k → 14%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%DAYBREAK: $500 → 14%FIRST STEP HOME: $5k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $3k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $1k → 9%FIRST STEP HOME: $3k → 16%PREGNANCY CENTER EAST: $350 → 16%KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE: $3k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $1k → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $1k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $1k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $6k → 16%KEVIN W DONOVAN FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $3k → 16%BEECH ACRES: $3k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $125 → 16%CHILD FOCUS INC: $5k → 16%PREGNANCY CENTER EAST INC: $6k → 16%PREGNANCY CENTER EAST: $2k → 16%VITALITY CINCINNATI: $400 → 16%PREGNANCY CENTER EAST: $500 → 16%CANCER SUPPORT CUMMUNITY: $10k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $100k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $75k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $75k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $75k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $75k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $25k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $1k → 16%YWMCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $90 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
DE
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 81 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

81 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
169

Total granted

$7.1M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+18%

Still filing today

43%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $373k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CW
    CINCINNATI WORKS
    6× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +19%
  • AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $130k · revenue +3%
  • CK
    CancerFree KIDS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $95k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $175k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC
    one grant, 2021 · $107k · revenue +24%
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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati

To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.

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3
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.

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4
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
5
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
6
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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7
Cincinnati Afl-Cio Labor Council

The mission of the afl-cio is to improve the lives of working families, to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation.

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8
Cincinnati Union Bethel

Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.

Human Services
9
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.

Philanthropy
10
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education
11
Children's Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati children's hospital medical center will be the leader in improving child health. cincinnati children's will provide child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education,…

Health
12
Level Up Cincinnati

LUC's mission is to empower underserved students, particularly first-gen students from low-income families, to thrive in education and professional careers. The program addresses critical challenges faced by these students, such as higher…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation of Cincinnati Inc; the most unlike its peers is Anderson Twp Historical Society Inc. 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

105 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 105 of the 279 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/105
Grantees still filing
72/105
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION: $2,062,923 · OtherAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATIONMCNICHOLAS HIGH SCHOOL: $1,379,595 · OtherMCNICHOLAS HIGH SCHOOLCINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $569,000 · OtherCINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITALBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CINCINNATI: $351,065 · OtherGUARDIAN ANGELS PARISHCHURCH: $275,000 · Other+152 more: $2,797,341 · Other+152 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $500,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL P…AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $169,539 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN E…AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $100,340 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN O…United Way of Greater Cincinnati: $58,055 · PhilanthropyUnited Way…+4 more: $40,000 · PhilanthropyCINCINNATI WORKS: $425,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Human Services+10 more: $63,510 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $130,000 · HealthCancerFree KIDS: $95,000 · HealthINTERACT FOR CHANGE: $50,000 · HealthThe Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation: $30,000 · HealthGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI INC: $25,000 · Health+9 more: $49,557 · HealthCintrifuse: $75,000 · Community ImprovementCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementJunior League of Cincinnati: $10,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $2,000 · Community ImprovementLITTLE FORK FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $100,000 · Crime & LegalPRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF OHIO: $15,000 · Crime & LegalCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $92,500 · Arts & CultureLima Company Memorial Inc: $10,500 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$7,434,924Philanthropy$867,934Human Services$523,510Health$379,557Community Improvement$137,000Crime & Legal$115,000Arts & Culture$113,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI WORKS: $425,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $169,539 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $130,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC: $107,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $100,340 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE FORK FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $100,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetCancerFree KIDS: $95,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $92,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCintrifuse: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $58,055 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInter Parish Ministry Inc: $57,161 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINTERACT FOR CHANGE: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetPREGNANCY CENTER WEST: $42,233 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetCISE: $41,420 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOptim-All Services: $30,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetThe Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN UMBRELLA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTENDER MERCIES INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $23,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKI PARTNERS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF OHIO: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEECH ACRES: $10,959 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLima Company Memorial Inc: $10,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetMadis House Inc: $10,312 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCISE Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPORTSLEADER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetFeeding America: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJunior League of Cincinnati: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREGNANCY CENTER PLUS INC: $8,279 over 4y, 0.1% 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE FORK FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CancerFree KIDS ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
  • Who funds Cintrifuse ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds Inter Parish Ministry Inc ↗
  • Who funds FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERACT FOR CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY CENTER WEST ↗
  • Who funds CISE ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Johnson Charitable Gi…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Robert H & Susan F Ca…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…The Thomas J Emery Me…Marge & Charles J Sch…Andrew Jergens Founda…The Wyler Family Foun…Charles H Dater Found…John a Schroth Family…Pfau Charitable Found…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH82.9× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · The Wyler Family Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Pfau Charitable Foundation

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 Tql Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tql Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Truckers Against Trafficking: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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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How do I get to Tql Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Tql Foundation Inc 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 279 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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