· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| INDIAN HILL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| FLYWHEEL SOCIAL ENTERPRISE | $5,000 |
| HYDE PARK COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK | $3,500 |
| CINCINNATI PARKS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| BOON PHILANTROPY | $2,500 |
| EQUASION- HUMAN RELATIONS INITIATIVE | $2,500 |
| HELP HOPE LIVE | $2,000 |
| SUMMIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| CINCINNATI OPERA ASSOCIATION INC | $1,500 |
| ARTSWAVE | $1,050 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 73 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zaring Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zaring Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Babson College: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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