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· Private foundation

Tr Ua Fifth Third Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23M
Granted FY2024still arriving
230
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$25MPhilanthropy$9.0MHousing & Shelter$5.8MEducation$5.2MArts & Culture$4.7MHuman Services$2.8MHealth$2.3MCivil Rights$2.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 230 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 230 grants below total $17,398,128 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $22,598,128 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,200,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k77 grants · $204k
  • $10k–50k76 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k53 grants · $5.0M
  • $250k+24 grants · $11M
$25,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$1,270,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC.$1,006,000
ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC$750,000
CORPORATION TO DEVELOP COMMUNITIES OF TAMPA INC.$640,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI$600,000
EASTERN STAR JEWEL HUMAN SERVICES CORPORATION$500,000
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY$496,250
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM$400,000
CINCINNATI BLUE LINE FOUNDATION$400,000
NATIONAL MINORITY SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC.$387,000
GROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC$362,334
NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC$350,000
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION$350,000
ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND$300,000
GREATER OTTAWA COUNTY UNITED WAY$300,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$33M · 160 repeat orgs$27M to everyone else

160 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2024, 87 since wound down; 96 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

160
334

Total granted

$33M
$17M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+25%

Still filing today

92%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24
PhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

  • ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +45%
  • NP
    NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +34%
  • CI
    Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.3M · revenue +26%
  • AG
    ACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -70%
  • LI
    LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATI
    one grant, 2023 · $713k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

—
2
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
3
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
4
Cedar Valley United Way

Uniting our community to empower individuals and families to thrive.

Philanthropy
5
United Way of the Midlands

United way connects people and resources to improve the quality of life in the midlands. united way invests in a broad range of community programs that increase access to health care, improve student success, assist people in crisis to…

Philanthropy
6
Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

—
7
United Way of Bucks County

United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.

Philanthropy
8
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
9
Butler County United Way

Connect resources to important community needs. the organization focuses on the most important human service needs facing the community and uses a variety of methods to communicate with community members in order to priortize the issues…

—
10
United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co

In order to mobilize community resources to help people measurably improve their lives - we work collaboratively with our community to identify priorities, and then decide which strategies, dollars, and partnerships should be used to bring…

Philanthropy
11
Indiana Association of United Ways Inc

Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.

Philanthropy
12
United Way Manitowoc County Inc

United way's mission is to improve lives.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Indiana United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts CentersAffordable Housing Construc…Environmental Advocacy and …Faith-Based Senior LivingGirls Stem Education Progra…Local History MuseumsCharter and Independent Sch…Youth Sports ProgramsYouth Development CentersAddiction & Mental Health T…Government Accountability &…Immigrant and Latino Integr…Ymca Community CentersFaith-Based Homeless Servic…Senior Support ServicesCivil Legal ServicesVeteran Support ServicesDomestic Violence and Sexua…Education Equity InitiativesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Women's Empowerment Organiz…Community Theater CompaniesCommunity Hospital SystemsClassical Music OrchestrasUnited Way AffiliatesFood Pantries and AssistanceAffordable Housing Developm…Community FoundationsCollege Foundation Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr14%16%20–35yr16%28%35–55yr20%41%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr21%15%10–20yr14%14%20–35yr16%37%35–55yr20%29%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/505
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/73,801

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

360 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. 360 of the 603 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
350/360
Grantees still filing
204/360
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $5,337,334 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $2,200,000 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INCNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC — $1,570,500 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INCINVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 · Community ImprovementINVEST DETROIT FOUNDATIONACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INC — $1,400,000 · Community ImprovementACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INCGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $1,091,334 · Community ImprovementGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INCAvondale Development Corporation — $951,367 · Community ImprovementCORPORATION TO DEVELOP COMMUNITIES OF TAMPA INC — $690,000 · Community Improvement+21 more — $4,398,000 · Community Improvement+21 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC. — $1,006,000 · OtherACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS — $1,000,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION — $1,000,000 · OtherLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATI — $713,000 · OtherEastern Star Jewel Human Services Corporation — $793,000 · Other+102 more — $15,484,750 · Other+102 moreUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati — $1,650,415 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of…THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $1,250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSIT…THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $525,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER C…ASSOCIATION FOR ENTERPRISE OPPORTUNITY — $475,000 · PhilanthropyASSOCIATION F…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $442,718 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID…UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $310,500 · PhilanthropyThe United Way of Lee County Inc — $270,000 · PhilanthropyHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $233,000 · Philanthropy+14 more — $1,501,563 · Philanthropy+14 moreCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts — $1,170,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $910,000 · Arts & CultureTAFT MUSEUM OF ART — $500,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $430,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MINORITY SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $337,000 · Arts & CultureMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $250,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $480,926 · Arts & CultureDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $1,270,000 · EducationNational Merit Scholarship Corporation — $274,000 · EducationCINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $250,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $212,000 · EducationFlorida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc — $175,000 · EducationTENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $175,000 · EducationCENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY — $102,200 · EducationClark Atlanta University Inc — $100,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Education+2 more — $125,000 · EducationNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $515,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $250,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesCINCINNATI WORKS — $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC — $130,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAS — $100,000 · Human ServicesNational Cares Mentoring Movement Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesOpportunity Resource Fund — $75,000 · Human ServicesMIAMI VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $75,000 · Human ServicesJUDSON CENTER INC — $75,000 · Human Services+4 more — $200,000 · Human ServicesFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $750,000 · Food & NutritionKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC — $155,000 · Food & NutritionDARE TO CARE INC — $75,000 · Food & NutritionAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK — $50,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Community Improvement$19,138,535Other$19,996,750Philanthropy$6,658,196Arts & Culture$4,077,926Education$2,783,200Human Services$1,870,000Food & Nutrition$1,080,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $5,337,334 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $2,200,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati — $1,650,415 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC — $1,570,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetINVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INC — $1,400,000 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $1,270,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $1,250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts — $1,170,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $1,091,334 over 2y, 15% of budgetACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS — $1,000,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION — $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAvondale Development Corporation — $951,367 over 3y, 63% of budgetCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $910,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetEastern Star Jewel Human Services Corporation — $793,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $750,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCORPORATION TO DEVELOP COMMUNITIES OF TAMPA INC — $690,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $608,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC — $600,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDetroit Development Fund — $600,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetJUMPSTART INC — $575,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $525,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $515,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART — $500,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR ENTERPRISE OPPORTUNITY — $475,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $442,718 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $430,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MINORITY SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $337,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOPERATION HOPE INC — $325,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCapital Area United Way Inc — $313,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $310,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRIGHT PLACE FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation — $274,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe United Way of Lee County Inc — $270,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $233,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $212,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC — $200,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSTART GARDEN INC — $200,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBBCDC INC — $200,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $181,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc — $175,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC — $155,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

First Financial Found…Heart of West Michiga…Consumers Energy Foun…AT&T FoundationMichigan Association …Dte Energy FoundationComerica Charitable F…Ohio Capital Impact C…The Huntington Founda…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Pnc FoundationPark National Corpora…
First Financial FoundationOH67.7× affinity37 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Financial Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Consumers Energy Foundation · AT&T Foundation · Michigan Association of United Ways Inc · Dte Energy Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Ohio Capital Impact Corporation · The Huntington Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Pnc Foundation · Park National Corporation 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 603 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $12M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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