· Private foundation
Carleton F and Ruth T Davidson Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $268k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION | $50,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD YOUTH MISSION | $25,000 |
| UNITED SENIOR SERVICES | $25,000 |
| THE WESTCOTT HOUSE | $25,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| THE NEHEMIAH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD CITIZEN POLICE ACADEMY ALUMN | $15,000 |
| HARTMAN ROCK GARDEN | $15,000 |
| THE HERITAGE CENTER OF CLARK COUNTY | $15,000 |
| HOPE MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| LIVING UNTETHERED MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| CLARK COUNTY LITERACY COALITION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| YMCA | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ULURBAN LIGHT MINISTRIES4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +1%
- TNTHE NEHEMIAH FOUNDATION OF SPRINGFIELD/CLARK COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +97%
- EUELDERLY UNITED OF SPRINGFIELD & CLARK COUNTY OHIO INC5× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- BLBRET LAYTON TOTAL MINISTRIESone grant, 2017 · $214k
- CCCLARK CO CONVENTION FACILITIESone grant, 2023 · $75k
- SCSOUTH CHARLESTON COMMUNITY PARKone grant, 2021 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Part iii, line 1 - to advance important economic development opportunities and issues, to help our members grow their businesses by delivering outstanding opportunities, to connect with each other and the broader community and to partner…
The mission of inner city mission is to provide what is needed to help homeless children, their parents, and single women find their way home.
Provides independent living services and support to individuals with disabilities; trains and refers personal assistants
We believe in creating a space where students can have authentic encounters with christ, find life-long friends and get plugged in with a local church while they are in college.
Improving economic security through financial education and coaching. Organization vision statement: Financial Freedom for All.
To provide assistance to the poor and homeless in Springfield and Clark County Ohio
Springfield Christian School exists to provide a Christ centered environment in a non-denominational setting where children are valued (cherished) and nurtured to develop a desire to understand Gods will for their lives.
Our mission at springfield is to be a unique help to christian parents in the nurture and education of their children. our schedule allows parents to spend more time coming alongside their children and to tailor-fit their child's music,…
The mission of the springfield project is to unite springfield as a community by working to improve the quality of life in our neighborhoods. the project seeks to empower citizens to develop solutions to problems that they identify in…
Public library
The springfield jcc enriches community and nurtures wellness through physical, intellectual, social and spiritual programs and services. the jcc is guided by jewish values, welcoming and respecting people of all abilities, ages,…
Provide grants to charitable organizations to provide religious and social services to disadvantaged youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springfield City Youth Mission and the most unlike its peers is Aspire P16 Collaborative. 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 29 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 74 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION OF SPRINGFIELD-CLARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds URBAN LIGHT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE NEHEMIAH FOUNDATION OF SPRINGFIELD/CLARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ELDERLY UNITED OF SPRINGFIELD & CLARK COUNTY OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds CLARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ON-THE-RISE ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD CITIZENS POLICE ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON STREET OASIS COMMUNITY GARDEN ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY LITERACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds OESTERLEN - SERVICES FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE P16 COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Springfield Foundation · Harry and Violet Turner 95 Charitable Trust · Della Selsor Tr Uw · Community Hospital Health Services Foundation · The United Way of Clark Champaign & Madison Counties Inc · Assurant Foundation · The Nehemiah Foundation of Springfield/Clark County · Shouvlin Foundation · Wilson Sheehan Foundation · Springfield Eagles Charity Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organization Carleton F and Ruth T Davidson Trust 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.
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 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.
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