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3055 Foundation at a glance

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3055 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.

$60k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$127kPhilanthropy$105kEducation$41kAnimals$26kSocial Science$25kHuman Services$8kHealth$7kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$1,300
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF LOGAN COUNTY$25,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$20,000
FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON$2,500
BLUE RIDGE PUBLIC RADIO$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,300
SICSA$1,250
OHIO'S HOSPICE OF DAYTON$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
THE FOODBANK$1,000
THERAPEUTIC RIDING INSTITUTE$600
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OMEGA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $3k → 14%OMEGA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $1k → 14%DAYBREAK INC: $5k → 14%DAYBREAK INC: $3k → 14%OHIO'S HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$141k · 3 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -1% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$141k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
-1%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsSocial ScienceFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue -1%
  • SF
    Society for the Improvement of Conditions for Stray Animals
    2× · 2023–2024 · $26k · revenue -6%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • MI
    MATHILE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN NUTRITION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -33%
  • DI
    DAYBREAK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -1%
  • VT
    VICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +53%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce

The chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.

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2
The Dayton Art Institute

The dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.

Arts & Culture
3
University of Dayton

The university of dayton is a top-tier independent, catholic research educational institution founded in 1850. the primary exempt purpose is providing post secondary education through undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and continuing…

Education
4
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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5
Dayton Development Coalition

The mission of the coalition is to recruit, expand and retain jobs in the dayton region. the coalition focuses on growing the 14-county dayton region and bolsters job creation and opportunity by supporting entrepreneurial activity,…

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6
Greater Dayton Union Cooperative Initiative Inc

Greater dayton union cooperative initiative inc incubates cooperative businesses to create and retain good jobs in our region, building a local economy that works for all.

Community Improvement
7
Lehigh University

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…

Education
8
Dayton Children's Hospital

The relentless pursuit of optimal health for every child within our reach.

Health
9
Dayton Realtors

Dayton realtors serves its members as a resource for continuing education, a wide range of committee activities, the multiple listing service, social events, products, and publications.

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10
Otterbein University

Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…

Education
11
Tiffin University

Educate students by linking knowledge to professional practice.

Education
12
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dayton Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mathile Institute for the Advancement of Human Nutrition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTSFRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTONVICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DAYTON FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF LOGAN COUNTY INC: $25,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF …HUMAN RACE THEATRE: $5,000 · OtherHUMAN RACE THE…UNITED REHABILITATION SERVICES OF GREATER DAYTON: $5,000 · OtherUNITED REHABIL…LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS: $5,000 · OtherLEAGUE OF WOME…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON INC: $2,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS C…+4 more: $3,910 · Other+4 moreHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationHILLSDALE CO…Society for the Improvement of Conditions for Stray Animals: $26,250 · AnimalsMATHILE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN NUTRITION: $25,000 · Social ScienceDAYBREAK INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesOmega Community Development Corporation: $3,500 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF DAYTON INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOODBANK INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$121,500Philanthropy$80,000Other$46,410Education$40,000Animals$26,250Social Science$25,000Human Services$12,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSociety for the Improvement of Conditions for Stray Animals: $26,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMATHILE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN NUTRITION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LOGAN COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDAYBREAK INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED REHABILITATION SERVICES OF GREATER DAYTON: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOmega Community Development Corporation: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF DAYTON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOODBANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC RIDING INSTITUTE INC: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Berry Family Foun…The Dayton FoundationDayton Foundation Plu…Mathile Family Founda…Centerpoint Energy Fo…Iddings Benevolent Tr…The CareSource Founda…Dayton Foundation Dep…Synchrony FoundationThe Dayton Power and …Frank M Tait Foundati…Miami Valley Hospital
The Berry Family FoundationOH26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Berry Family Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Mathile Family Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · The CareSource Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Synchrony Foundation · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · Frank M Tait Foundation · Miami Valley Hospital

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 3055 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 3055 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to 3055 Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to 3055 Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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