How much did ZARING FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of ZARING FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

churchindian hillpark

2019

indian hill

2020

parksbandeducationmusic artsreligious activitiesmedical research

2021

cancer researcheducationmusic artsreligious activitiesmedical

2022

educationmusic artsmedical research

2023

educationmusic artsmedical research

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $33k
$10k–50k1 grant · $15k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$849k

Total assets

Largest grants

JDRF-CINCINNATI CHAPTER$15,000
CINCINNATI OPERA ASSOCIATION INC$7,000
HYDE PARK COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH$5,000
THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOLS$4,500
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI$3,300
INDIAN HILL CHURCH$2,500
EQUASION- HUMAN RELATIONS INITIATIVE$2,000
QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK$2,000
NATIONAL ORG OF RARE DISORDERS (NORD INC)$2,000
ARTSWAVE$1,000
CINCINNATI PARKS FOUNDATION$1,000
THE WORLD WAR II MUSEUM$1,000
UC CENTRAL CLINIC$500
FREESTORE FOOD BANK$500
BABSON COLLEGE$250

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 94% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$296k · 25 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$296k

$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

+84%

Still filing today

36%

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

JI
JDRF INTERNATIONAL
2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +12%
TS
THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOLS
8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +47%
BABSON COLLEGE
6× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +20%

Funded once

JD
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION - SOUTHWEST OHIO CHAPTER
one grant, 2017 · $14k
CO
CINCINNATI OPERA ASSICIATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $8k
NU
NATIONAL UNDERGROUND FREEDOM CENTER
one grant, 2021 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 University of Cincinnati Foundation

To inspire a community of uc and uc health supporters through the power of philanthropy.

Philanthropy

Uc Healthcare System

Uc healthcare system is the sole member of uc health, llc and is responsible for facilitating interaction, cooperation and communication between the various entities that make up the uc health system to ensure a superior academic medical…

Health

Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts

With funding, services, and advocacy, ArtsWave fuels a more vibrant economy and connected community through the arts.

Arts & Culture

The Christ Hospital

Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.

Health

Oberlin College

Core values derived from our mission include: - Educational Excellence: The College of Arts and Sciences and Conservatory of Music are committed to educating students to achieve academic and musical excellence in an environment where…

Education

Cleveland University - Kansas City

To provide a strong, student-centered professional education with a focus in the areas of life sciences and health promotion through education, scholarship, and service.

Health

University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education

Cleveland State University

The CSUF is organized primarily to engage in activities to provide support and services to CSU.

Education

Cleveland Museum of Art

To provide a collection of artwork representing achievement of individuals and civilizations, past and present, for the benefit of the public.

Arts & Culture

Cleveland Institute of Music

To empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams&potential.

Education

OhioHealth Corporation

Our mission is to improve the health of those we serve.

Health

The Collegiate School

See schedule o to create a diverse and inclusive community of learners committed to a challenging and supportive educational experience that will foster the intellectual, moral, emotional, and physical development of each student.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Christ Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Occidental College. 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 55 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/22

the rest of the field

12%

1,143/9,760

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.

05the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

15/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$272,102Health$50,000Education$46,050Arts & Culture$13,300Recreation & Sports$4,000Food & Nutrition$2,000Community Improvement$1,000

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.

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.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH27.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Ge Foundation · Williams Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~26 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 310732512 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 26 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Zaring Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Zaring Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ZARING FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Zaring Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ZARING FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Zaring Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph