· Public charity
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce Education & Public Improvement Fdtn
The foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the dayton region by supporting initiatives and projects enhancing economic development and community awareness.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of DAYTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATION & PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT FDTN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $185,450 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $193,950 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,500 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $163k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOWNTOWN DAYTON PARTNERSHIP | $47,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON | $36,050 |
| Individual grant recipient | $29,500 |
| THE BIG HOOPLA INC | $25,000 |
| BOWERBAGS LLC | $25,000 |
| DAYTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $8,900 |
| NATIONAL AVIATION HALL OF FAME | $8,000 |
| DAYTON BUSINESS JOURNAL | $5,500 |
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 (FY18–19, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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
- UOUniversity of Dayton2× · 2023–2024 · $71k · revenue +7%
- TBThe Big Hoopla Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +69%
- DADAYTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE6× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- CCCROWNME COIL CARE LLCone grant, 2020 · $25k
- BSBATTLE SIGHT TECHNOLOGIES LLCone grant, 2018 · $25k
- DLDESIN LLCone grant, 2017 · $25k
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 dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.
The center will use its resources for information sharing and member assistance to incubate new entrepreneurs who are trying to establish a presence in the marketplace. the center will research, identify, teach and disseminate the critical…
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.
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,…
To promote, protect, and preserve the historic integrity of the buildings known as the dayton arcade located in dayton, ohio.
Dayton Chamber of Commerce primary purpose is education, promotion, training, and business retention for Dayton and Columbia County business.Dayton Chamber of Commerce is an active element of the business community in Dayton, WA.
To deliver contemporary dance of the highest quality to the broadest possible audience through local performances, national and international touring, as well as educational programs.
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.
The mission of the dayton society of natural history is to create and provide meaningful and entertaining learning experiences for curious minds to engage with natural history, science, and nature while honoring and preserving collections…
YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
The mission of the Akron History Center is to create an enduring long-lasting free museum-quality exhibit about Akrons history that inspires residents educates young people and welcomes visitors to our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dayton Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dayton Movies. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 100 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.
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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 Dayton Foundation · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Dayton Foundation Depository
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 Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce Education & Public Improvement Fdtn 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.