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William P Anderson Foundation Central Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$441k
Granted FY2025still arriving
76
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$584kYouth Development$373kEducation$364kHuman Services$354kFood & Nutrition$331kArts & Culture$292kHousing & Shelter$255kCrime & Legal$163kOther$0
02FY2025 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k71 grants · $368k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW OHIO$25,000
PROKIDS$18,000
FREESTORE FOODBANK$10,000
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY$10,000
LAST MILE FOOD RESCUE$10,000
SUMMER STARS CAMP FOR THE PERFORMING$9,000
ELLIE FUND$9,000
BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE CINCINNATI$8,000
SHELTERHOUSE VOLUNTEER GROUP$8,000
INTER PARISH MINISTRY$8,000
OUR DAILY BREAD$8,000
CINCINNATI THERAPEUTIC RIDING &$7,500
CASA DE PAZ$7,500
CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE$7,000
PEASLEE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$7,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $389k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $9k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $7k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $5k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME: $8k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME: $6k → 16%BEST POINT EDUCATION & BEHAVIORAL: $5k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 16%BEST POINT EDUCATION & BEHAVIORAL: $5k → 16%EVERY CHILD SUCCEEDS: $5k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE: $7k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE: $6k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE: $5k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE: $5k → 16%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $10k → 16%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $5k → 16%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $5k → 16%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $5k → 16%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $5k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $5k → 16%STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS: $5k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $5k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $5k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $5k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $5k → 16%STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS: $5k → 16%STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS: $5k → 16%ISAIAH 55 INC: $7k → 16%ISAIAH 55 INC: $5k → 16%ISAIAH 55 INC: $5k → 16%CASA DE PAZ: $8k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $6k → 16%CINCINNATI UNION BETHEL: $6k → 16%CINCINNATI UNION BETHEL: $6k → 16%CINCINNATI UNION BETHEL: $6k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $6k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $5k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 112 repeat orgs$169k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

112 repeat relationships: 66 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

112
29

Total granted

$3.1M
$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+31%

Still filing today

66%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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

  • FF
    FREESTORE FOODBANK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +61%
  • P
    ProKids
    9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +210%
  • LA
    Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati
    9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • MC
    MILL CREEK ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +123%
  • WH
    WOMEN HELPING WOMENgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +115%
  • BM
    BLUE MANATEE LITERACY PROJECT
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue -82%
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
Cincinnati's Optimum Residential Environments Inc

Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities

Health
2
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
3
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights
4
Ohio United Way

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

Philanthropy
5
Cincinnati Parks Foundation

To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.

Recreation & Sports
6
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
7
FutureHeights Inc

FutureHeights seeks to inspire and facilitate collaboration and empowerment across our communities to ensure a vibrant and sustainable future for Cleveland Heights and University Heights.

Arts & Culture
8
Clermont Counseling Center

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

Health
9
The Home Ownership Center of Greater Cincinnati in

The home ownership center is a non-profit that has been serving the cincinnati metro area since 1973, and is a member of the neighbor works network.

Housing & Shelter
10
Cincinnati Arts and Technology Center

Unlocking the self-worth and potential of at-risk teens through the transformative power of art, a first-class environment and a character-building culture. Equipping at-risk teens with skills, credentials and pathways to employment.…

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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
Community Shelter Board

The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coverd Greater Cincinnati; the most unlike its peers is Turner Farm 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

94 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. 94 of the 151 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)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/94
Grantees still filing
73/94
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $80,500 · OtherLegal Aid Society of Cincinnati: $72,000 · OtherFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $98,000 · OtherProKids: $91,000 · Other+85 more: $1,610,900 · Other+85 moreLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $65,500 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOU…The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $58,500 · Human ServicesThe Children's…CINCINNATI WORKS: $46,500 · Human ServicesCINCINNATI WOR…NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $38,500 · Human ServicesNEW LIFE FURNI…CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $38,000 · Human ServicesCANCER SUPPORT…Cincinnati Union Bethel: $32,000 · Human ServicesCincinnati Uni…Casa de Paz: $26,000 · Human ServicesCasa de PazTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE FIRST STEP…ISAIAH 55 INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesISAIAH 55 INCStrategies to End Homelessness Inc: $19,500 · Human Services+7 more: $32,500 · Human Services+7 moreELLIE FUND INC: $54,000 · EducationTHE CHATFIELD EDGE: $51,500 · EducationREAD TO A CHILD INC: $38,000 · EducationOHIO VALLEY VOICES: $31,000 · EducationART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI: $17,500 · EducationCincinnati Youth Collaborative: $17,000 · EducationROTHENBERG ROOFTOP GARDEN: $9,000 · EducationBEACON ACADEMY INC: $8,400 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationCancer Family Care Inc: $40,000 · HealthFERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $39,500 · HealthSAMARITANS INC: $36,000 · HealthTRI-STATE BLEEDING DISORDER FOUNDATION: $23,000 · HealthMercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc: $20,500 · HealthThe Cincinnati Eye Institute Foundation: $13,500 · HealthADDICTION SERVICES COUNCIL: $12,500 · Health+2 more: $11,500 · HealthSummer Stars Foundation Inc: $56,000 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $34,000 · Arts & CultureART OPPORTUNITIES INC: $22,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $22,000 · Arts & CultureVisionaries and Voices: $19,500 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $13,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $12,000 · Arts & CultureThe Contemporary Arts Center: $8,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $9,500 · Arts & CultureTHE HILLSIDE TRUST: $45,000 · EnvironmentImago: $41,000 · EnvironmentCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $21,000 · EnvironmentGREEN UMBRELLA: $18,500 · EnvironmentGREAT PARKS FOREVER: $14,000 · EnvironmentMaine Audubon Society: $8,500 · EnvironmentMILL CREEK ALLIANCE: $7,500 · EnvironmentShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $67,000 · Housing & ShelterEPISCOPAL RETIREMENT SERVICES: $20,500 · Housing & ShelterLydia's House Inc: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterBethany House Services Inc: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterOVER THE RHINE COMMUNITY HOUSING: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterWELCOME HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,952,400Human Services$407,000Education$231,400Health$196,500Arts & Culture$196,000Environment$155,500Housing & Shelter$147,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $98,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetProKids: $91,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Cincinnati: $72,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $67,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $65,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD: $59,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $58,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetInter Parish Ministry Inc: $58,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSummer Stars Foundation Inc: $56,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $54,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetELLIE FUND INC: $54,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHATFIELD EDGE: $51,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCINCINNATI WORKS: $46,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetEAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $45,500 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetTHE HILLSIDE TRUST: $45,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetUTEC Inc: $44,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetImago: $41,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetCancer Family Care Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetFERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $39,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetLITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK: $38,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetNEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $38,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $38,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetREAD TO A CHILD INC: $38,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSAMARITANS INC: $36,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUPSPRING: $35,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetCOVINGTON LADIES HOME INC: $34,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $34,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCincinnati Union Bethel: $32,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetOHIO VALLEY VOICES: $31,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMILFORD MIAMI MINISTRY: $26,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetCasa de Paz: $26,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetLAST MILE FOOD RESCUE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetISAIAH 55 INC: $25,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetSQUARE1 INC: $24,000 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetTRI-STATE BLEEDING DISORDER FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetGlad House Inc: $23,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetART OPPORTUNITIES INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $22,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMENTORING PLUS INC: $21,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $21,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc: $20,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEPISCOPAL RETIREMENT SERVICES: $20,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLydia's House Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetVisionaries and Voices: $19,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetStrategies to End Homelessness Inc: $19,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN UMBRELLA: $18,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetElementz: $18,000 over 4y, 1.0% 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 FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds ProKids ↗
  • Who funds Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds Shelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
  • Who funds Inter Parish Ministry Inc ↗
  • Who funds Summer Stars Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
  • Who funds ELLIE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHATFIELD EDGE ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
  • Who funds EAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE HILLSIDE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
  • Who funds Imago ↗
  • Who funds Cancer Family Care Inc ↗
  • Who funds FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK ↗
  • Who funds NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY ↗
  • Who funds READ TO A CHILD INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITANS INC ↗
  • Who funds UPSPRING ↗
  • Who funds COVINGTON LADIES HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Union Bethel ↗
  • Who funds OHIO VALLEY VOICES ↗

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 Cincinnati FoundationOH100.1× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Millstone Fund · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust

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 William P Anderson Foundation Central Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William P Anderson Foundation Central Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Brookview House Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Samaritans Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Ellie Fund Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Hull Lifesaving Museum Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Beacon Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Als One Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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Find your warmest path to William P Anderson Foundation Central Trust 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.

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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-PF 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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