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Dayton Children's Hospital

The relentless pursuit of optimal health for every child within our reach.

$187k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$2.9MPhilanthropy$350kEducation$196kHuman Services$193kYouth Development$145kArts & Culture$90kRecreation & Sports$64kFood & Nutrition$61kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $124k
$8,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA OF GREATER DAYTON$30,000
UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER DAYTON AREA$30,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN OF DAYTON$15,000
PRESCHOOL PROMISE INC$15,000
STRATEGIC OHIO COUNCIL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION$11,500
VICTORY PROJECT INC$11,500
A SPECIAL WISH FOUNDATION - DAYTON CHAPTER$10,500
FOODBANK INC$8,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON INC$8,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$8,500
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK CCL$7,500
GREATER EDGEMONT COMMUNITY COALITION$7,500
DAYBREAK INC$7,500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MIAMI VALLEY$7,500
MIAMI VALLEY MEALS INC$7,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%DAYTON DREAM CENTER: $10k → 14%OMEGA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 14%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DAYTON INC: $8k → 14%HANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $17k → 14%DAYBREAK INC: $15k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $15k → 14%DAYBREAK INC: $10k → 14%DAYBREAK INC: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $9k → 14%DAYBREAK INC: $8k → 14%ST VINCENT DEPAUL: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 30 repeat orgs$484k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
30

Total granted

$3.5M
$457k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
0%

Still filing today

93%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON
    3× · 2017–2022 · $2.5M · revenue +406%
  • AF
    ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +77%
  • GO
    GIRLS ON THE RUN OF DAYTON
    4× · 2018–2025 · $53k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOME CARE OF DAYTON
    one grant, 2020 · $76k · revenue -20%
  • CO
    CITY OF SPRINGBORO
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • TG
    THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +23%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
Greater Dayton Union Cooperative Initiative Inc

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.

Community Improvement
3
Dayton Children's Hospital

The relentless pursuit of optimal health for every child within our reach.

Health
4
University of Dayton

The university of dayton is a top-tier independent, catholic research educational institution founded in 1850. the primary exempt purpose is providing post secondary education through undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and continuing…

Education
5
Dayton Clinical Oncology Program Inc

To reduce cancer incidence and mortality through improved treatment and prevention by offering national, state-of-the-art cancer research to local communities.

Health
6
Ohio United Way

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

Philanthropy
7
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement
8
Dayton Veterans Affairs Research & Education

To promote, support, and facilitate meritorious biomedical and health services research and education activities conducted by investigators at the dayton va medical center that contribute to improve healthcare for veterans and the general…

Health
9
The Democracy Collaborative Foundation Inc

See schedule othe democracy collaborative was established in 2000 to advance understanding of democracy for the 21st century and to promote emerging strategies and innovations in community development that enhance democratic life. in…

Education
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
Daytonmiami Valley Entrepreneurs Center

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…

Community Improvement
12
Dayton Christian Center Inc

To promote community by nuturing children and empowering familites in a christian environment by providing childcare services and supportive services for families.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Vincent Depaul Society District Council of Dayton Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDisability & Recovery Suppo…University Support & Aviati…Christian International Mis…Dayton Community Institutio…Faith-Based Social ServicesAlternative High Schools & …Senior Services & HealthcareRegional Economic Developme…Community Health and Social…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr12%11%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr14%20%20–35yr17%16%35–55yr20%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr12%2%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr14%5%20–35yr17%70%35–55yr20%18%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/65
the rest of the field
11%
424/3,722

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.

04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
33/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON — $2,522,500 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTONTHE UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER DAYTON AREA — $208,500 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER DAYTON AREA+28 more — $559,435 · Other+28 moreCHILDREN'S HOME CARE OF DAYTON — $76,032 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $50,000 · HealthTHE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $36,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $17,500 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $16,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $12,575 · HealthEBENEZER HEALTHCARE ACCESS INC — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · HealthTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION — $115,000 · PhilanthropyDAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY — $46,667 · PhilanthropyFirst Lady's Charitable Foundation — $10,000 · PhilanthropySTRATEGIC OHIO COUNCIL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION — $36,500 · EducationThe Dayton Metro Library Foundation — $27,000 · EducationPRESCHOOL PROMISE INC — $25,000 · EducationWright State University Foundation Inc — $16,650 · EducationJohn Carroll University — $14,279 · EducationEL PUENTE EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $12,500 · EducationBaldwin Wallace University — $12,000 · EducationDAYBREAK INC — $42,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,500 · Human ServicesHANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST — $20,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesDAYTON DREAM CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesOmega Community Development Corporation — $10,000 · Human ServicesCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DAYTON INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF DAYTON OHIO INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCULTURE WORKS — $39,000 · Arts & CultureVICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE — $13,100 · Arts & CultureDAYTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY — $13,000 · Arts & CultureDayton Performing Arts Alliance — $10,000 · Arts & CultureGIRLS ON THE RUN OF DAYTON — $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER MIAMI VALLEY INC — $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,290,435Health$273,607Philanthropy$171,667Education$143,929Human Services$135,500Arts & Culture$90,100Youth Development$90,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON — $2,522,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER DAYTON AREA — $208,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION — $115,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME CARE OF DAYTON — $76,032 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF DAYTON — $52,500 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetDAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY — $46,667 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAYBREAK INC — $42,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetA SPECIAL WISH FOUNDATION INC OF SOUTHWEST OHIO — $39,935 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCULTURE WORKS — $39,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON INC — $38,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSTRATEGIC OHIO COUNCIL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION — $36,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DAYTON — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL EASTER SEALS MIAMI VALLEY — $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER MIAMI VALLEY INC — $32,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetOHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE DBA SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $29,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA Dayton — $27,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Dayton Metro Library Foundation — $27,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESCHOOL PROMISE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIAMI VALLEY MEALS INC — $22,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWright State University Foundation Inc — $16,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Conference for Community and Justice of Greater Dayton — $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Carroll University — $14,279 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE — $13,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAYTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY — $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $12,575 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROSS OVER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $12,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetSOCCER CENTERVILLE INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEL PUENTE EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $12,500 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAYTON DREAM CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDayton Performing Arts Alliance — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Lady's Charitable Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE MIAMI VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOmega Community Development Corporation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEBENEZER HEALTHCARE ACCESS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FOODBANK INC — $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTEMIS CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DAYTON INC — $7,500 over 1y, 7.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Dayton FoundationMathile Family Founda…Dayton Foundation Plu…Dayton Foundation Dep…The CareSource Founda…WPCU Sunshine Communi…Miami Valley HospitalThe Dayton Power and …Virginia W Kettering …The United Way of the…Frank M Tait Foundati…Iddings Benevolent Tr…
The Dayton FoundationOH69.3× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dayton Foundation · Mathile Family Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Dayton Foundation Depository · The CareSource Foundation · WPCU Sunshine Community Fund · Miami Valley Hospital · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Frank M Tait Foundation · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009

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 Children's Hospital 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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