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Zaring Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D (JDRF) | $25,000 |
| THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOLS | $6,000 |
| HYDE PARK COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| FLYWHEEL SOCIAL ENTERPRISE | $5,000 |
| INDIAN HILL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK | $3,500 |
| CINCINNATI PARKS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BOON PHILANTROPY | $2,500 |
| CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| EQUASION- HUMAN RELATIONS INITIATIVE | $2,500 |
| SUMMIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| HELP HOPE LIVE | $2,000 |
| CINCINNATI OPERA ASSOCIATION INC | $1,500 |
| ARTSWAVE | $1,050 |
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 (FY17–17, $2k) 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 14 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; $40k 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
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D6× · 2018–2023 · $86k · revenue +31%
- TSTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +51%
- COCincinnati Opera Association Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- JCJDRF-CINCINNATI CHAPTERone grant, 2024 · $15k
- JDJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION - SOUTHWEST OHIO CHAPTERone grant, 2017 · $14k
- NUNATIONAL UNDERGROUND FREEDOM CENTERone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum 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 55 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 73 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 BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds UC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds Flywheel Social Enterprise HUB ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BOON PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds The Christ Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds Emanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy ↗
- Who funds BEEX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company 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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Williams Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust · Hcs Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · The Wyler Family Foundation
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 Zaring Family 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.
- Babson College — 3% 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.
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