FundersOhio

Clh Foundation

Cincinnati, OH · EIN 31-1346007. Reported 47 grants totalling $1,590,700 to 31 organizations across tax years 2023-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$1,590,700granted, 2023-2024
31organizations funded
76%of grantees funded again the next year
$19.0Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Clh Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $25,000; the smallest was $200 and the largest $281,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
17 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
11 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants
$100,000 and Up
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Christ Hospital FoundationCincinnati, OH$500,000222024
Good Samaritan Hospital FoundationCincinnati, OH$472,000222024
Cincinnati Parks FoundationCincinnati, OH$175,000222024
Lindner Center of HopeMason, OH$115,000222024
Tender MerciesCincinnati, OH$65,000222024
United Way of Greater CincinnatiCincinnati, OH$45,000222024
Catholic Inner-City Schools EducationCincinnati, OH$32,000222024
Depaul Cristo ReyCincinnati, OH$30,000222024
St Xavier High SchoolCincinnati, OH$30,000222024
Cincinnati Cancer FoundationCincinnati, OH$25,000112023
Cincinnati Art MuseumCincinnati, OH$14,000222024
Barrett Cancer Foundation IncCincinnati, OH$10,000112024
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH$10,000112024
Judicial WatchWashington, DC$8,000222024
Cincinnati Museum CenterCincinnati, OH$7,500222024
Beechwood HomeCincinnati, OH$5,000222024
Chatfield CollegeSt Martin, OH$5,000112023
Chatfield EdgeFayetteville, OH$5,000112024
La Soupe IncCincinnati, OH$5,000112024
Sisters of Notre DameCincinnati, OH$5,000222024
St Vincent De Paul - CincinnatiCincinnati, OH$5,000112024
The Children's Theatre of CincinnatiCincinnati, OH$5,000112024
ArtswaveCincinnati, OH$4,500222024
LaddCincinnati, OH$3,000222024
Pro Kids First TeeSan Diego, CA$2,500112024
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers FoundationStaten Island, NY$2,500112024
Taft Museum of ArtCincinnati, OH$1,500112023
Freestore-Foodbank IncCincinnati, OH$1,000112024
Kelly Carol Fdn for ChildrenCincinnati, OH$1,000112023
Seipelt PTAMilford, OH$1,000112023
Joy Outdoor Education Center Foundation IncClarksville, OH$200112024

16 of 31 (52%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 76%, across 1 year-to-year transition. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

Plus 43 grants to individuals totalling $1,345,475 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
4 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Education
3 grants
Recreation & Sports
3 grants
Mental Health
2 grants
Religion
2 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
2 grants
Diseases & Disorders
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202321$788,500$5,000
202426$802,200$5,750

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 99% of this one's giving went to organizations in Ohio. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Ohio
$1.6M
District of Columbia
$8K
New York
$2K
California
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund18 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc18 shared recipientsThe Greater Cincinnati Foundation17 shared recipientsJohnson Charitable Gift Fund15 shared recipientsHorizon Community Funds of Northern12 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust12 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Ohio.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Clh Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1991 Madison Road, Cincinnati, OH, 45208. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 31-1346007 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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