· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TNTHE NEHEMIAH FOUNDATION OF SPRINGFIELD/CLARK COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +97%
- ULURBAN LIGHT MINISTRIES4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +1%
- 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
- OOOIC OF CLARK COone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 74 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 SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION OF SPRINGFIELD-CLARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE NEHEMIAH FOUNDATION OF SPRINGFIELD/CLARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds URBAN LIGHT MINISTRIES ↗
- 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 ASPIRE P16 COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds OESTERLEN - SERVICES FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION 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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carleton F and Ruth T Davidson Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carleton F and Ruth T Davidson Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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