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Walter & Olivia Kiebach Foundation

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.

$500k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$706kArts & Culture$493kRecreation & Sports$450kHealth$389kHuman Services$171kEnvironment$166kHousing & Shelter$76kReligion$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $371k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION$60,000
ST GEORGES SCHOOL$44,000
CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$35,000
MASSICHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECH$30,000
TRINITY COLLEGE$28,000
CHANGING THE WORLD INC$28,000
BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION$25,000
THE OHIO UNIVERSITY$25,000
HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATE$25,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$25,000
COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS$15,500
EARTH MEDICINE INSTITUTE$15,000
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM$15,000
WESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$10,000
CHRIST CHAPEL$10,000
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, $199k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $30k → 11%A KID AGAIN: $5k → 15%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $15k → 11%NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA: $20k → 7%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $5k → 11%NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA: $20k → 7%THE NORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM: $5k → 17%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $3k → 11%NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA: $20k → 7%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $2k → 11%NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA: $10k → 7%TREASURED LIFE INITIATIVE: $1k → 8%NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA: $10k → 7%NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA: $10k → 7%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $6k → 16%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $6k → 16%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $10k → 16%EMANUEL COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 16%EMANUEL COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 16%EMANUEL COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $2k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $1k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $1k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $1k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
NM
SC
DC
OK
LA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 53 repeat orgs$334k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
32

Total granted

$2.6M
$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+21%

Still filing today

62%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +36%
  • SG
    ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2025 · $109k · revenue +32%
  • TS
    THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2023 · $104k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • SP
    SANTA PICSU
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • CS
    CAULBRIDGE SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +74%
  • TT
    THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +47%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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8
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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9
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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12
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Treasured Life Initiative Inc. 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

55 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. 55 of the 94 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/55
Grantees still filing
40/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $170,000 · OtherCINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient: $160,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEARTH MEDICINE INSTITUTE: $115,000 · OtherEARTH MEDICINE INSTITUTEHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATE: $65,000 · OtherHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATEIndividual grant recipient: $55,000 · Other9 LINCOLN OF HARLAN TOWNSHIP: $52,000 · OtherCHRIST CHAPEL INC: $45,000 · Other+49 more: $512,640 · Other+49 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $135,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $109,000 · EducationST GEORGE'S SCHOOLTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $104,000 · EducationTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOLTRINITY COLLEGE: $82,000 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGESouthern Methodist University: $40,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist Uni…THE VIDA SCHOOL: $35,000 · EducationTHE VIDA SCHOOLFINANCIAL SCHOLARS INC: $20,000 · Education+6 more: $69,000 · Education+6 moreCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $170,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM A…CHANGING THE WORLD INC: $106,000 · Arts & CultureCHANGING THE WORLD …COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $79,750 · Arts & CultureCOTUIT CENTER FOR T…BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBLAIR HOUSE FOUNDAT…FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $45,000 · Arts & CultureFORD'S THEATRE SOCI…THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD: $36,360 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS FOUNDATION…The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $18,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $8,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION: $313,000 · Recreation & SportsCLEVELAND BAS…ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION: $22,500 · Recreation & SportsED SNIDER YOU…+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsNEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA: $90,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesEmanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy: $27,000 · Human ServicesCINCINNATI WORKS: $16,000 · Human Services+3 more: $11,000 · Human ServicesMERGING VETS AND PLAYERS: $40,000 · Public BenefitSANTA PICSU: $20,000 · Public BenefitBARNSTABLE LAND TRUST INC: $39,750 · EnvironmentALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentSAVE TWIN BROOKS INC: $5,000 · Environment
Other$1,174,890Education$594,000Arts & Culture$513,110Recreation & Sports$340,500Human Services$199,000Public Benefit$60,000Environment$50,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION: $313,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $170,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $135,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $109,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHANGING THE WORLD INC: $106,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $104,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA: $90,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $82,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $79,750 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERGING VETS AND PLAYERS: $40,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBARNSTABLE LAND TRUST INC: $39,750 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD: $36,360 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTHE VIDA SCHOOL: $35,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetEmanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy: $27,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITED: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL: $18,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAULBRIDGE SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGATEWAY TO LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI WORKS: $16,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRINGING HOPE HOME: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNewport Hospital: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPOUTING ROCK BEACH ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTARFIRE COUNCIL OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTIP OF THE SPEAR FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCAPE KID MEALS INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA KID AGAIN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEE OFF FORE LIFE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE TWIN BROOKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT COUNTRY CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION TRUST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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 CLEVELAND BASEBALL FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CHANGING THE WORLD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds MERGING VETS AND PLAYERS ↗
  • Who funds BARNSTABLE LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD ↗
  • Who funds THE VIDA SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Emanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy ↗
  • Who funds ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds BUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITED ↗
  • Who funds SANTA PICSU ↗
  • Who funds FINANCIAL SCHOLARS INC ↗
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds THE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAULBRIDGE SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY TO LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation IncMA17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Amica Companies Foundation · Olb Foundation Inc · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Walter & Olivia Kiebach Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter & Olivia Kiebach Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Community Connections Inc: 76% of income from government
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod: 6% of income from government
  • Barnstable Land Trust Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Cape Cod Museum of Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Walter & Olivia Kiebach Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 94 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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