Ohio · Private foundation
Vista Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $719k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2024
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 51%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 74
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 51% of the organizations Vista Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 51 | $658k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 67 | $900k | 51% |
| FY2022 | 74 | $626k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $587k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $463k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 67 | $498k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 58 | $445k | 38% |
| FY2017 | 48 | $351k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati Museum Association | $387,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Chatfield Edge | $239,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Neuro-Acupuncture Institute Inc | $146,000 | 6 | 18% |
| Key West Literary Seminar Inc | $125,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Site Santa Fe | $83,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Cincinnati Country Day School | $82,000 | 8 | 0% |
| La Soupe Inc | $73,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Cincinnati Parks Foundation | $72,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children | $71,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cise | $64,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 101 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 93 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Vista Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 92 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Earthward Bound Foundation · Williams Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation
How this is measured
About Vista Foundation
- How much does Vista Foundation give?
- Vista Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $719,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 74 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Vista Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Education (17%), Health (12%).
- Who are Vista Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cincinnati Museum Association ($388k), The Chatfield Edge ($240k), Neuro-Acupuncture Institute Inc ($146k).
- Does Vista Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 51% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vista Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Vista Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Louise Taft Semple Foundation, The Thomas J Emery Memorial.
- Where is Vista Foundation based?
- Vista Foundation is based in OH.
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