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Wood-Byer Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Federation of Cincinnati | $10,000 |
| Cancer Support Community | $5,000 |
| St Frederick & St Stephen Catholic | $5,000 |
| Breakthrough Cincinnati | $5,000 |
| DePaul Cristo Rey High School | $4,000 |
| Childhood Food Solutions | $4,000 |
| Jewish Family Services | $3,500 |
| Freestore Foodbank | $3,000 |
| Purcell-Marian High School | $3,000 |
| Crayons to Computers | $3,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hosp | $3,000 |
| Mayerson JCC | $2,500 |
| Charleston Animal Society | $2,500 |
| Hospice of Cincinnati | $2,500 |
| Edisto Island Open Land Trust | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 91% 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.
42 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- CSCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY6× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +48%
- BCBreakthrough Cincinnati Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +187%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- AFAbby's Friends Incone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -100%
- KIKIDS4PEACE INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2019 · $1k
- B1Baby 1st Networkgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +214%
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.
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,…
Our mission is to deliver state-of-the-art cancer care to patients in their communities through clinical trials. this allows individuals to remain in their won neighborhoods, while receiving the latest and best in cancer screenings,…
Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati, Inc. serves the burial needs of the Greater Cincinnati Jewish community with care and dignity and honors the resting places of our people.
Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.
Chmc community health services network ("chsn") is organized and operated exclusively to support cincinnati children's hospital medical center ("cchmc") in cchmc's efforts to provide medical services to all of the children in the community.
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.
Federated fundraising organization, working with over 30 local nonprofits,to build social & economic equality & a healthy environment,raise social awareness & support for member organizations through workplace giving campaigns,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Abby's Friends Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 49 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 CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Center Of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Cedar Village Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds UPSPRING ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds East Cooper Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds EDISTO ISLAND OPEN LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1 · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Andrew Jergens Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Meisel Family Foundation · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd
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 Wood-Byer 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.
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.