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CareSource

CareSource ("the Company") is a nonprofit organization operating in Ohio.

$7.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$22MHuman Services$3.6MPhilanthropy$2.5MHousing & Shelter$1.1MFood & Nutrition$847kEducation$785kCommunity Improvement$562kYouth Development$437kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 34 grants below total $7,639,874, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,860,294 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $220,420 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $370k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $575k
  • $250k+3 grants · $6.7M
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CARESOURCE FOUNDATION$3,500,000
CARESOURCE MISSION$2,925,456
US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION$250,000
THE BIG HOOPLA INC$195,000
CLARK COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON$100,000
PRESCHOOL PROMISE$75,000
NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE WELLNESS AGENCY$55,000
THE UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER DAYTON AREA$50,000
NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES$30,000
SAM'S FANS$25,000
SOCIETY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF CONDITIONS FOR STRAY ANIMALS$25,000
THE COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENT$25,000
LUTHERAN SERVICES IN AMERICA INCORPORATED$25,000
IMMERSE ARKANSAS$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%Arkansas Support Network: $25k → 14%111 Project of Florida Inc: $25k → 25%ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION: $15k → 11%SAMARITAS DBA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 21%Walkin' & Rollin' Costumes: $55k → 5%Growing Places Indy: $10k → 16%Connexion West: $59k → 9%STARK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $13k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $6k → 17%United Church Homes: $1.0M → 17%Lutheran Home Society Inc DBA Genacross: $250k → 18%THE CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION INC: $10k → 10%MISSISSIPPI COATS 4 KIDZ: $10k → 25%National Federation of Families for Children's Men: $75k → 8%New Roots: $10k → 15%ARKANSAS WAIVER ASSOCIATION INC: $6k → 14%Hope for Grateful Hearts Group: $25k → 15%CHILDREN'S FORUM INC: $10k → 19%Access: $25k → 21%Chris 180: $50k → 14%DAYTON DREAM CENTER: $8k → 14%THINK TANK INC: $51k → 15%MAHONING YOUNGSTOWN COMMUNITY: $6k → 19%Safe Families for Children: $200k → 14%HANNAN CENTER: $10k → 21%Think Tank Inc: $50k → 15%Josephs Home: $8k → 17%Pulaski County Adoption Coalition: $70k → 17%Urban League of Greater SW Ohio: $18k → 16%Independent Case Management Inc: $25k → 17%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SW OHIO INC: $10k → 16%PULASKI COUNTY ADOPTION COALITION: $15k → 17%Omega Community Development Corporation: $25k → 14%Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio: $10k → 16%The Villages of Indiana Inc: $150k → 16%Fostering Success Act Inc: $1.0M → 13%ST STEPHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
AR
NC
DC
OK
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.
$19M · 29 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
144

Total granted

$19M
$8.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • TC
    The CareSource Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · $14M · revenue +5% · 100% of their budget
  • UC
    UNITED CHURCH HOMES INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +17%
  • TF
    THE FOODBANK INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $415k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • FS
    FOSTERING SUCCESS ACT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -34%
  • OH
    OHIO'S HOSPICE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +12%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $874k · revenue +56%
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
The Healthcare Connection Inc

To provide quality, culturally sensitive and accessible primary health care services focusing on the medically underserved, underinsured, and uninsured residing in northern hamilton county and surrounding areas.

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2
Ohio Hills Health Services

Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…

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3
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
4
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
5
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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6
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

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7
Physicians Care Connection

Physicians careconnection (pcc) mission is to optimize health for individuals experiencing healthcare challenges due to personal and systemic barriers.

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8
Southern Indiana Community Health Care

To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…

Health
9
Ohio District 5 Area Agency On Aging Inc

The ohio district 5 area agency on aging, inc. provides leadership, collaboration, coordination and services to older adults, people with disabilities, their caregivers and resource networks that support individual choice, independence and…

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10
Hospice of Dayton Inc

The hospice of dayton, inc. is committed to making quality hospice care available and accessible to terminally ill persons and their families, regardless of ability to pay, and in a manner consistent with the highest hospice standards. our…

Human Services
11
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
12
The Center for Health Affairs

The mission of the organization is to implement programs and services to improve healthcare throughout northeast ohio.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Stephen Community Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is UpDayton. 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

182 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. 182 of the 198 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
173/182
Grantees still filing
118/182
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The CareSource Foundation: $14,000,000 · HealthThe CareSource FoundationCareSource Mission: $2,925,456 · HealthCareSource MissionOHIO'S HOSPICE INC: $1,000,000 · HealthST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $874,000 · Health+27 more: $1,642,672 · Health+27 moreUNITED CHURCH HOMES INC: $2,000,000 · Human ServicesUNITED CHURCH H…FOSTERING SUCCESS ACT INC: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING SUCCE…LUTHERAN HOMES SOCIETY INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN HOMES …SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $200,000 · Human Services+35 more: $1,078,400 · Human Services+35 moreTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION: $2,016,000 · PhilanthropyGEORGIA HEALTH INITIATIVE INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $100,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $181,150 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON INC: $345,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRL…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON: $300,000 · OtherRONALD MCDO…THE UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER DAYTON AREA: $294,409 · OtherTHE UNITED …HEALTHY BEGINNINGS INC: $250,000 · OtherHEALTHY BEG…HEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF GA INC: $120,000 · OtherCLT HOST 2020 INC: $250,000 · OtherCLT HOST 20…DAYTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATION & PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT FDTN: $121,000 · Other+82 more: $1,744,468 · Other+82 moreMarian University: $250,000 · EducationUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $250,000 · EducationPRESCHOOL PROMISE INC: $115,000 · EducationUniversity of Dayton: $100,000 · EducationDolly Parton's Imagination Library: $55,120 · EducationATLANTA HBCU ALUMNI ALLIANCE: $40,000 · Education+8 more: $110,000 · EducationTHE FOODBANK INC: $414,798 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $75,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK: $65,000 · Food & Nutrition+6 more: $55,050 · Food & NutritionThe Big Hoopla Inc: $340,000 · Recreation & SportsIndy Pride Inc: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsREBUILDING TOGETHER DAYTON INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsINDIANAPOLIS URBAN YOUTH BASEBALL & SOFTBALL INC: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$20,442,128Human Services$4,528,400Philanthropy$2,497,150Other$3,424,877Education$920,120Food & Nutrition$609,848Recreation & Sports$395,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe CareSource Foundation: $14,000,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetCareSource Mission: $2,925,456 over 1y, 99% of budgetTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION: $2,016,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetUNITED CHURCH HOMES INC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFOSTERING SUCCESS ACT INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetOHIO'S HOSPICE INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $874,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTHE FOODBANK INC: $414,798 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON INC: $345,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetThe Big Hoopla Inc: $340,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON: $300,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER DAYTON AREA: $294,409 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMarian University: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLUTHERAN HOMES SOCIETY INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCLT HOST 2020 INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGEORGIA HEALTH INITIATIVE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $200,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN: $179,500 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetThe Villages of Indiana Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDAYTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATION & PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT FDTN: $121,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetHEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF GA INC: $120,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetPRESCHOOL PROMISE INC: $115,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHINK TANK INC: $100,800 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetHEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE OF OHIO: $100,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetEASTERSEALS ARKANSAS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESTORE HOPE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV: $95,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGREATER DAYTON AREA HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK: $90,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPULASKI COUNTY ADOPTION COALITION INC DBA PROJECT ZERO: $85,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FEDERATION OF FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH: $75,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS ON DEVE: $75,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: $70,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $67,672 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDOWNTOWN DAYTON PARTNERSHIP CORP: $67,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK: $65,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNational Association of Medicaid Directors: $62,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCONNEXION WEST: $59,400 over 1y, 30% of budgetPHILANTHROPY OHIO: $57,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetDolly Parton's Imagination Library: $55,120 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCULTURE WORKS: $55,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON: $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% 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 CareSource Founda…The Dayton FoundationDayton Foundation Dep…Mathile Family Founda…Dayton Foundation Plu…Healthpath Foundation…Miami Valley HospitalThe United Way of the…The Dayton Power and …Centerpoint Energy Fo…Dayton Children's Hos…Iddings Benevolent Tr…
The CareSource FoundationOH57.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The CareSource Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Mathile Family Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Healthpath Foundation of Ohio · Miami Valley Hospital · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Dayton Children's Hospital · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009

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 CareSource funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from CareSource. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health: 54% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Children's Forum Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
57report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 198 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 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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