· Private foundation
William G & Jane Helms Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCAN NONPROFIT PET CARE CLINIC | $17,000 |
| SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| WACC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FREE STORE FOODBANK | $10,000 |
| GREATER CINCINNATI TELEVISION EDUCA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NEWPATH CHURCH MC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $5,000 |
| TAFT MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CONTEMPORARY ATRS CENTER | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI ZOO & BOTANICAL GARDEN | $5,000 |
| WAVE POOL | $3,000 |
| NKU FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
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 (FY17–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +41%
- AAART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI3× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +55%
- NKNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- CICincinnati Institute of Fine Artsone grant, 2020 · $34k · revenue +2%
- OORSNCOone grant, 2024 · $25k
- CCCLEREMONT COUNTY ANIMAL CLINICone grant, 2018 · $10k
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 Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA), a not-for-profit, was founded in 1990 to serve as a manager, presenter and educator. CAA's mission is to present a broad range of high quality performing and visual arts programs, develop diverse…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The fort wayne museum of art will collect, preserve and present american and related art to engage and educate broad and diverse audiences throughout the region and add value to their lives.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Cma is dedicated to creating its mission of providing "great experiences with great art for everyone".
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 dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.
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,…
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Clermont County Humane Society. 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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 69 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 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Public Radio Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE EXPLORERS CLUB ↗
- Who funds MARIEMONT PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATADA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
- Who funds The Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds Wave Pool Corp ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds The Mercantile Library ↗
- Who funds OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM ↗
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: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · J Frederick & Helen B Vogel Trust · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Thomas R Schiff Foundation · Earthward Bound Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Duke Energy Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Ohio Valley Foundation Fifth Third Bank
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 William G & Jane Helms Charitable 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.