· Public charity
Culture Works
CULTURE WORKS is the funding, advocacy, and service organization that passionately inspires, supports, and sustains arts and culture in the dayton region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $222,074 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $604,847 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $382,773 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $159k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAYTON PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE | $52,238 |
| THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE | $41,161 |
| THE MUSE MACHINE | $23,111 |
| DAYTON PUBLIC RADIO INC | $21,953 |
| SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $21,197 |
| THE HUMAN RACE THEATER COMPANY | $20,593 |
| DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY | $19,939 |
| K12 GALLERY & TEJAS | $11,454 |
| BACH SOCIETY OF DAYTON | $5,393 |
| THE CONTEMPORARY DAYTON | $5,035 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of your 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 +21% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- TMTHE MUSE MACHINE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $321k · revenue +14%
- DCDAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY9× · 2017–2025 · $308k · revenue +21%
- DPDAYTON PUBLIC RADIO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- SVSANGAMON VALLEY YOUTH SYMPHONYone grant, 2018 · $16k
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.
The mission of dyao is to expose young musicians and audiences to the joy and beauty of symphonic music, pursuing excellence through exceptional orchestral training, unique & diverse performance opportunities, and new pathways to symphonic…
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
Provide entertainment, encourage the advancement of theater art in the community and provide an opportunity for cultural and technical growth of guild members through the experience of live theater.
To inspire and change lives through musical excellence.
The mission of Levitt Pavilion Dayton is building community through the power of music, one free concert at a time. At the intersection of social impact and the arts, Levitt is removing barriers and creating access for all, while…
Choristers' mission is to provide the highest quality choral music education and performance opportunities to the culturally and economically diverse children and youth of northeast Ohio.
The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
MUSE is an inclusive and feminist choral community advocating for peace and social justice. We unite our voices to raise awareness and inspire change in ourselves, our audiences, and our world through partnerships that honor the humanity…
The Georgia Symphony Orchestra GSO is a non-profit corporation organized for the purposes of providing significant cultural and educational value to the north-metro Atlanta community. The organization performs public concerts through our…
To benefit artists in the community by offering gallery exhibition space, studio space, and through promotion of the art created by members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dayton Public Radio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sangamon Valley Youth Symphony. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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.
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 Dayton Performing Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE MUSE MACHINE INC ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds The Human Race Inc ↗
- Who funds DAYTON PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds K12 GALLERY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds Contemporary Dayton Inc ↗
- Who funds BACH SOCIETY OF DAYTON INC ↗
- Who funds SANGAMON VALLEY YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
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: Dayton Foundation Depository · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · The Dayton Foundation · Miriam Rosenthal Foundation for the Arts Cibc · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · Levin Family Foundation · The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · Mathile Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Culture Works 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.