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Tr Ua a & E Ehlers Fdn at a glance

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Tr Ua a & E Ehlers Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$84k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

98% of Tr Ua a & E Ehlers Fdn’s FY2025 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. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’20
10
’21
10
’22
9
’23
9
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9
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$500kReligion$5kHealth$2kHuman Services$1kEducation$600Housing & Shelter$300Recreation & Sports$300
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $2k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $84k
$50
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION$83,900
HYDE PARK COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST$700
CITY GOSPEL MISSION$100
THE OHIO MASONIC HOME$100
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE$100
SAMUEL W BELL HOME FOR$50
CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MEDICAL$50
EMANUEL COMMUNITY CENTER$50
STEPPING STONES INC$50
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$50
SCOTTISH RITE BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION$50
SHRINERS HOSPITAL CHILDREN TRUST$50
MARCH OF DIMES INC$50
CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND$50
THE SALVATION ARMY$50
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 (FY20–25, $800) 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%CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $50 → 16%CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $50 → 16%CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $50 → 16%CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $50 → 16%CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $50 → 16%CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $50 → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $50 → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $50 → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $50 → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $50 → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $50 → 16%EMANUEL COMMUNITY CENTER: $50 → 16%EMANUEL COMMUNITY CENTER: $50 → 16%EMANUEL COMMUNITY CENTER: $50 → 16%EMANUEL COMMUNITY CENTER: $50 → 16%EMANUEL COMMUNITY CENTER: $50 → 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.
$9k · 16 repeat orgs$300 to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$9k
$300

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+106%

Still filing today

56%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • AL
    ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $600 · revenue +78%
  • CC
    Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired
    6× · 2020–2025 · $300 · revenue +75%
  • EC
    Emanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy
    6× · 2020–2025 · $300 · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50 · revenue +106%
  • CC
    CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $50
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $50
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
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
The Christ Hospital

Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.

Health
3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
Chmc Community Health Services Network

Chmc community health services network ("chsn") is organized and operated exclusively to support cincinnati children's hospital medical center ("cchmc") in cchmc's efforts to provide medical services to all of the children in the community.

Health
6
The Good Samaritan Hospital of Cincinnati Ohio

The organization's mission is to improve the health status of the community it serves.

Health
7
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health
8
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health
9
Stc Healthcare Partners Llc

Website: https://towerhealth.org/locations/st-christophers-hospital- children stc opco, llc (st. christopher's hospital for children) provides a full range of high-quality healthcare services to all children and youth up to age 21 who seek…

Health
10
Trihealth Physician Institute

Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.

Health
11
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
12
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is Alice Lloyd College. 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

11 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. 11 of the 23 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $499,900 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATIONHYDE PARK COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST: $2,800 · OtherHYDE PARK COMMUNITY METHODIST: $1,400 · OtherTHE OHIO MASONIC HOME: $600 · OtherCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $600 · OtherSAMUEL W BELL HOME FOR: $300 · OtherSCOTTISH RITE BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION: $250 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $250 · Other+6 more: $400 · OtherMARCH OF DIMES INC: $300 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $250 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $100 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $50 · HealthClovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired: $300 · Human ServicesEmanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy: $300 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STONES INC: $250 · Human ServicesALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $600 · Education
Philanthropy$499,900Other$6,600Health$950Human Services$850Education$600

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $499,900 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetClovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired: $300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEmanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy: $300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC: $250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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 THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
  • Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds Emanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tr Ua a & E Ehlers Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tr Ua a & E Ehlers Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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