· Private foundation
Welchwood Foundation Inc
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k4 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $208k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAPLES BOTANICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF COLLIER COUNTY | $20,000 |
| CINCINNATI PARKS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ST MATTHEW'S HOUSE | $20,000 |
| SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER | $15,000 |
| BEREA COLLEGE | $13,000 |
| CINCINNATI ZOO | $10,000 |
| EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CORKSCREW SWAMP SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC | $10,000 |
| CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $6,000 |
| FOREMAN SCHOOL | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 38% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- CNCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER4× · 2017–2020 · $165k · revenue +39%
- UWUNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $80k · revenue +77%
- CPCincinnati Parks Foundation4× · 2017–2020 · $75k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATIone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +12%
- AArtwaveone grant, 2017 · $6k
- CMCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -24%
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.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
To inspire, through science and education, a passion for nature, the protection of natural diversity, the fostering of health, and leadership to a sustainable future.
To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
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,…
For 124 years, the toledo museum of art has offered free admission to one of the world's great art collections housed in its greek revival main building and the glass pavilion. the museum has an extensive education program, offering…
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
Cleveland zoological society is the nonprofit partner of cleveland metroparks zoo, committed to raising awareness of the zoo as a community priority; securing private donations; and running a membership program that provides operating and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is The Everglades Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 23 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 CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORMAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
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 · The Oliver Family Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Welchwood Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — 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.
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