· Private foundation
Waddell Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $143k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GUARDIAN ANGELS CHURCH | $30,000 |
| CANCER FAMILY CARE | $27,500 |
| MY WHY CINCINNATI | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ART | $15,000 |
| MAY WE HELP | $10,843 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MED | $10,000 |
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY | $10,000 |
| ST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MCNICHOLAS HIGH SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| PETS IN NEED | $5,000 |
| OHIO JUSTICE POLICY CENTER | $5,000 |
| BROOKLYN MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FREESTORE FOODBANK | $3,318 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $248k · revenue +23%
- CFCancer Family Care Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $118k · revenue +23%
- AOART OPPORTUNITIES INC4× · 2020–2023 · $38k · revenue +187%
Funded once
- SUST URSULA ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CTCREATIVE TIME INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -71%
- LFLeague for Animal Welfaregraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +175%
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.
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.
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
Moca's mission- art now, in progress - embodies our nature as a living, adaptive platform for artistic experimentation, public exchange, and civic connection. our vision - artists & art lead us to the unfamiliar, where we open and connect…
The Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA), a not-for-profit, was founded in 1990 to serve as a manager, presenter and educator. CAA's mission is to present a broad range of high quality performing and visual arts programs, develop diverse…
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
To enrich lives through modern and contemporary art.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 52 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cancer Family Care Inc ↗
- Who funds ART OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Clifton Cultural Arts Center ↗
- Who funds BREASTCANCERORG ↗
- Who funds Pets in Need of Greater Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds MAY WE HELP INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE TIME INC ↗
- Who funds League for Animal Welfare ↗
- Who funds CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Madis House Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds PINK RIBBON GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Clermont Senior Services Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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 · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1 · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Pfau Charitable Foundation · The Scripps Howard Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Waddell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waddell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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