· Public charity
Warren County Foundation
To enhance the quality of life in warren county by encouraging and facilitating charitable giving and making it convenient, flexible and effective.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 60 grants below total $1,206,933 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,823,698 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $616,765 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $653k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $468k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WARREN COUNTY PARK DISTRICT | $154,844 |
| WARREN COUNTY FOUNDATION | $95,342 |
| BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC | $84,600 |
| ZOWEH MINISTRIES | $76,000 |
| RALPH J STOLLE COUNTRYSIDE YMCA | $56,800 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $38,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF WARREN COUNTY | $31,000 |
| OHIO GOVERNOR'S IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $28,183 |
| CINCINNATI ZOO & BOTANICAL GARDENS | $25,000 |
| LEBANON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $24,830 |
| LEBANON ROTARY CLUB | $24,377 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $22,000 |
| LEBANON FOOD PANTRY | $20,700 |
| MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES | $20,500 |
| NEW FREEDOM CHURCH | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $724k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
50 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $471k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2025 · $980k · revenue +6%
- BFBETHESDA FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $795k · revenue +123%
- RJRALPH J STOLLE COUNTRYSIDE YMCA OF WARREN COUNTY4× · 2019–2025 · $660k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- JEJEWELL EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $49k
- RJRALPH J STOLLE COUNTRYSIDE YMCAone grant, 2017 · $30k
- LULEBANON UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $29k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
Women's health clinic focusing on helping at-risk parents deal with issues related to prenancy and parenting.
The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.
Helping all ohioans to reach their fullest health potential.
To promote mental health research in medical developments
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Warren County Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Waynesville Area Heritage and Cultural Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
56 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. 56 of the 120 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RALPH J STOLLE COUNTRYSIDE YMCA OF WARREN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Miami University Foundation ↗
- Who funds ZOWEH INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Joy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Folds of Honor of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds RESTORING LIVES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BEECH ACRES ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WARREN COUNTY DBA INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF WARREN ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF LEBANON OHIO ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS FOUNDATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds Dolly Parton's Imagination Library ↗
- Who funds LEBANON FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · United Way of Warren County Ohio · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · The Dayton Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Warren County Foundation Depository · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Interact for Health · Ge Aerospace 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 Warren County Foundation 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.
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.