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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.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$82kFood & Nutrition$61kHealth$53kYouth Development$48kCrime & Legal$35kHuman Services$28kHousing & Shelter$11k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$17,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$25k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BEECHACRES PARENTING CENTER: $18k → 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.
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 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
Children's Bureau Inc

Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.

Human Services
2
Family Nurturing Center of Kentucky

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…

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3
Carolina Teen Center

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,…

Health
4
Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc

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…

Civil Rights
5
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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6
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
7
Cornerstones of Care

Partnering for safe and healthy communities.

Human Services
8
Community Coordinated Child Care Inc

Advocate for early childhood social & economic development and professionals who work with children and their families to advance this mission.

Human Services
9
Connecting for Kids of Westlake Oh

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…

Youth Development
10
Casa of Tipton County

Child Advocacy Services

Crime & Legal
11
Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc

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.

Education
12
Iris Family Support Center Inc

Iris family support center, formerly known as scan, protects children, prepares parents, strengthens families and educates our community to stop child abuse and neglect.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crayons and Beyond Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COVINGTON PARTNERS INC: $50,000 · EducationCOVINGTON PARTNERS INCCincinnati Youth Collaborative: $17,500 · EducationCincinnati Youth Collabo…GO PANTRY CORPORATION: $50,000 · Food & NutritionGO PANTRY CORPORA…THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION: $44,500 · HealthTHE DRAGONFLY F…Tamassee DAR School Inc: $16,500 · OtherTamassee DAR School IncOH SHE BUILT THAT INC: $10,000 · OtherOH SHE BUILT THAT INCMAD KICKS: $8,000 · OtherMAD KICKSMASTER PROVISIONS INC: $5,500 · OtherMASTER PROVISIONS INCNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC: $15,000 · OtherNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRE…CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC: $15,000 · OtherCRAYONS AND BEYOND INCBEECH ACRES: $17,500 · Human ServicesBEECH ACRESFAMILY PROMISE OF PICKENS COUNTY INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMI…GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY: $5,500 · Human ServicesGOLDEN CORNE…CINCINNATI GOLDEN GLOVES FOR YOUTH: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsCINCINNATI…ProKids: $20,000 · Civil Rights
Education$67,500Food & Nutrition$50,000Health$44,500Other$70,000Human Services$34,000Recreation & Sports$30,000Civil Rights$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOVINGTON PARTNERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetGO PANTRY CORPORATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION: $44,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCINCINNATI GOLDEN GLOVES FOR YOUTH: $30,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetProKids: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Youth Collaborative: $17,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBEECH ACRES: $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTamassee DAR School Inc: $16,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCRAYONS AND BEYOND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF PICKENS COUNTY INC: $11,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetGOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY: $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMASTER PROVISIONS INC: $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.

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.

Johnson Charitable Gi…The Greater Cincinnat…Duke Energy FoundationJohn a Schroth Family…Interact for HealthCarol Ann and Ralph V…United Way of Greater…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Charles H Dater Found…Andrew Jergens Founda…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Honorable Order of Ke…
Johnson Charitable Gift FundOH19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Whiskey and Wishes Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whiskey and Wishes Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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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    How do I get to Whiskey and Wishes Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Whiskey and Wishes Inc 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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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