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Whiskey and Wishes Inc
Whiskey and wishes strengthens the community through collectively funding grants to non-profits who make a lasting impact in our region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOPANTRY | $25,000 |
| CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE | $17,500 |
| BEECHACRES PARENTING CENTER | $17,500 |
| CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS | $15,000 |
| NORTHERN KENTUCKYS CHILDREN LAW CEN | $15,000 |
| OH SHE BUILT THAT | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
The mission of Family Nurturing Center is to end the cycle of child abuse by promoting individual well-being and healthy family relationships. We envision a world with safe children, thriving families and nurturing communities and offer a…
Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…
For nearly 50 years, kentucky youth advocates (kya) has worked to improve child well-being, public policies, and systems that influence the lives of children, families, and communities. kya is the only multi-issue, statewide child advocacy…
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
Partnering for safe and healthy communities.
Advocate for early childhood social & economic development and professionals who work with children and their families to advance this mission.
Connecting for kids is a local nonprofit organization with a mission to provide resources, support and community to families in northeast ohio who have concerns about their child. the organization serve all families, including those…
Child Advocacy Services
The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Iris family support center, formerly known as scan, protects children, prepares parents, strengthens families and educates our community to stop child abuse and neglect.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crayons and Beyond Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tamassee Dar School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 COVINGTON PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds GO PANTRY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI GOLDEN GLOVES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ↗
- Who funds BEECH ACRES ↗
- Who funds Tamassee DAR School Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF PICKENS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MASTER PROVISIONS 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: Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Interact for Health · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc
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 Whiskey and Wishes 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 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.
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