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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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.7MReligion$2.1MHealth$905kHuman Services$778kRecreation & Sports$267kPhilanthropy$225kYouth Development$104kFood & Nutrition$101kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 60 grants below total $1,206,933, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,823,698 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $616,765 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $653k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $468k
$11,200
Median grant
6
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE OEDER FOUNDATION$20,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER: $12k → 14%YMCA - RALPH STOLLE COUNTRYSIDE: $552k → 6%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $15k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $12k → 16%ABILITIES FIRST FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $10k → 16%RALPH J STOLLE COUNTRYSIDE YMCA: $57k → 6%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $10k → 16%YMCA - RALPH STOLLE COUNTRYSIDE: $32k → 6%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $8k → 16%OTTERBEIN LEBANON: $11k → 6%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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 50 repeat orgs$953k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
42

Total granted

$6.6M
$482k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+17%

Still filing today

54%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $471k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2025 · $980k · revenue +6%
  • BF
    BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $795k · revenue +123%
  • RJ
    RALPH J STOLLE COUNTRYSIDE YMCA OF WARREN COUNTY
    4× · 2019–2025 · $660k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • JE
    JEWELL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $49k
  • RJ
    RALPH J STOLLE COUNTRYSIDE YMCA
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • LU
    LEBANON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $29k
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
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
2
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
3
United Way of Greater Lima Inc

United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.

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4
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
5
Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area

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,…

Human Services
6
Clermont Counseling Center

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

Health
7
The Women's Clinic of Columbus

Women's health clinic focusing on helping at-risk parents deal with issues related to prenancy and parenting.

Health
8
Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

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.

Philanthropy
9
Healthpath Foundation of Ohio

Helping all ohioans to reach their fullest health potential.

Health
10
Ohio Center for Hope

To promote mental health research in medical developments

Health
11
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
12
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Warren County Ohio; 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.
04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 120 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
38/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEBANON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $842,950 · OtherLEBANON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHLEBANON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $364,500 · OtherLEBANON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHMIAMI UNIVERSITY: $168,000 · OtherWARREN COUNTY PARK DISTRICT: $164,844 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC: $160,500 · OtherNEW FREEDOM CHURCH: $155,000 · Other+88 more: $1,764,067 · Other+88 moreOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $980,050 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDA…Miami University Foundation: $655,809 · EducationMiami University FoundationCLASSICAL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $125,000 · EducationCLASSICAL CHRISTIAN ACADEMYFolds of Honor of Central Ohio Inc: $75,641 · Education+4 more: $112,633 · Education+4 moreBETHESDA FOUNDATION INC: $794,600 · HealthBETHESDA FOU…+5 more: $48,732 · Health+5 moreRALPH J STOLLE COUNTRYSIDE YMCA OF WARREN COUNTY: $660,262 · Human ServicesRALPH J STO…BEECH ACRES: $64,350 · Human ServicesBEECH ACRES+4 more: $39,000 · Human ServicesWARREN COUNTY FOUNDATION: $130,842 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $50,750 · PhilanthropyMagnified Giving: $20,200 · PhilanthropyTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyZOWEH INC: $172,000 · ReligionJoy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc: $87,441 · Environment
Other$3,619,861Education$1,949,133Health$843,332Human Services$763,612Philanthropy$211,792Religion$172,000Environment$87,441

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 budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $980,050 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBETHESDA FOUNDATION INC: $794,600 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetRALPH J STOLLE COUNTRYSIDE YMCA OF WARREN COUNTY: $660,262 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetMiami University Foundation: $655,809 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetZOWEH INC: $172,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetWARREN COUNTY FOUNDATION: $130,842 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCLASSICAL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $125,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetJoy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc: $87,441 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFolds of Honor of Central Ohio Inc: $75,641 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetRESTORING LIVES INTERNATIONAL: $70,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetBEECH ACRES: $64,350 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $55,950 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $50,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $50,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc: $48,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF WARREN COUNTY DBA INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF WARREN: $47,150 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF LEBANON OHIO: $38,903 over 2y, 29% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS FOUNDATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC: $30,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetDolly Parton's Imagination Library: $28,183 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEBANON FOOD PANTRY: $26,850 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $26,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMagnified Giving: $20,200 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWarren County Community Services Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLebanon Chamber of Commerce Inc: $18,150 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARED HARVEST FOODBANK INC: $14,550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLMYF INC: $14,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,663 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE ASSOCIATION OF WARREN COUNTY -OHIO: $11,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKettering Back Pack Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCommunity Mental Health Centers of Warren County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWAYNESVILLE AREA HERITAGE AND CULTURAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetOTTERBEIN HOMES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOHIO LIVING QUAKER HEIGHTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE ON MAIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WARREN COUNTY OHIO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $9,212 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER DAYTON VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT: $8,016 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $7,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION OF CARE GREATER CINCINNATI: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCincinnati Waldorf School: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Dayton Foundation Dep…Johnson Charitable Gi…United Way of Warren …Charles H Dater Found…The Dayton FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Warren County Foundat…Sutphin Family Founda…John a Schroth Family…Interact for HealthGe Aerospace Foundati…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH32.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Warren County Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Warren County Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 120 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 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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