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Tr Ua the Charles Moerlein Fd

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$153kHousing & Shelter$93kEducation$90kFood & Nutrition$60kHuman Services$60kArts & Culture$50kCrime & Legal$25kCivil Rights$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIKKUN FARM$25,000
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE$25,000
CENTRAL CLINIC BEHAVIOR HEALTH$25,000
THE HEALING CENTER$10,000
BAWAC INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOPE HOUSE RESCUE MISSION INC: $19k → 12%CINCINNATI UNION BETHEL: $25k → 16%THE HEALING CENTER: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services
2
The Stride Center

As an innovative social enterprise, The Stride Center's mission is to empower men and women facing barriers to employment to achieve economic self-sufficiency. We provide a comprehensive career development program that includes job skills…

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3
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

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.

Civil Rights
4
Cleveland Mediation Center

Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…

Crime & Legal
5
Survivor Advocacy Outreach Program

To educate, empower, enact dedicated to the healing and prevention of sexual violence in southeast ohio.

Health
6
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
7
Flywheel Social Enterprise Hub

Through workshops, training programs and technical assistance, we help social entrepreneurs build ventures that deliver social impact.

Philanthropy
8
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
9
Friends of Recovery Ne Ohio

Provide Christ centered recovery homes offering hope, healing, and restoration for individuals recovering from addictive substances.

Crime & Legal
10
Cintrifuse

To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.

Community Improvement
11
Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…

Community Improvement
12
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springer School and Center and the most unlike its peers is Rise Up News. 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

20 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. 20 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EPILEPSY ALLIANCE OHIO — $30,000 · OtherEPILEPSY ALLIANCE OHIOCENTRAL CLINIC BEHAVIOR HEALTH — $25,000 · OtherCENTRAL CLINIC BEHAVIOR HEA…FOUND VILLAGE - VILLEDGE INC — $25,000 · OtherFOUND VILLAGE - VILLEDGE IN…RISE UP NEWS — $25,000 · OtherRISE UP NEWSPRODUCE PERKS MIDWEST INC — $20,000 · OtherPRODUCE PERKS MIDWEST INCGATEWAY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE — $10,000 · OtherGATEWAY COMMUNITY & TECHNIC…CARACOLE INC — $37,500 · Housing & ShelterCARACOLE INCPRICE HILL WILL — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterPRICE HILL WILLSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE IN…WHITNEY STRONG INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterWHITNEY STRONG INCLydia's House Inc — $18,750 · Housing & ShelterLydia's House IncSPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER — $35,000 · EducationSPRINGER SCHOOL AND CEN…MindPeace Cincinnati — $35,000 · EducationMindPeace CincinnatiTHE CHATFIELD EDGE — $25,000 · EducationTHE CHATFIELD EDGESchool Board School — $20,000 · EducationSchool Board SchoolCincinnati Union Bethel — $25,000 · Human ServicesCincinnati…HOPE HOUSE RESCUE MISSION INC — $18,750 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE…The Healing Center — $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Healin…Manifest Creative Research Gallery — $25,000 · Arts & CultureManifest C…Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati…TIKKUN FARM INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $25,000 · HealthBAWAC INC — $5,000 · Employment
Other$135,000Housing & Shelter$131,250Education$115,000Human Services$53,750Arts & Culture$50,000Community Improvement$40,000Health$25,000Employment$5,000

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 budgetTIKKUN FARM INC — $40,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetCARACOLE INC — $37,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMindPeace Cincinnati — $35,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetEPILEPSY ALLIANCE OHIO — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPRICE HILL WILL — $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CHATFIELD EDGE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Union Bethel — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetManifest Creative Research Gallery — $25,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCincinnati Chamber Orchestra — $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetWHITNEY STRONG INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSchool Board School — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPRODUCE PERKS MIDWEST INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE HOUSE RESCUE MISSION INC — $18,750 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLydia's House Inc — $18,750 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Healing Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBAWAC INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Greater Cincinnat…United Way of Greater…Andrew Jergens Founda…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Josephine S Russell C…Charles H Dater Found…Pfau Charitable Found…Louise Taft Semple Fo…The Thomas J Emery Me…John a Schroth Family…Duke Energy Foundation
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH32.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Duke Energy 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 Tr Ua the Charles Moerlein Fd 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.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

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

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