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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
AMERICAN RED CROSS$8,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON INC$8,500
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK CCL$7,500
GREATER EDGEMONT COMMUNITY COALITION$7,500
MIAMI VALLEY MEALS INC$7,500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MIAMI VALLEY$7,500
DAYBREAK INC$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $15k → 14%DAYBREAK INC: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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%
+2%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
  • TG
    THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -8%
  • CO
    CITY OF SPRINGBORO
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

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
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
3
Dayton Children's Hospital

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

Health
4
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
5
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
6
Ohio United Way

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

Philanthropy
7
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
8
Boys & Girls Club of Dayton Inc

Since 1930, the boys & girls club of dayton (bgcd) has been an anchor and oasis with a mission focused on inspiring, developing and helping young people to reach their full potential because we believe that every child has the potential to…

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9
Dayton Development Coalition

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,…

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10
OhioHealth Corporation Group Return

To improve the health of those we serve.

Health
11
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
12
Ohio Life Sciences Foundation

The mission of ohio life sciences foundation is to accelerate bioscience discovery, innovation and commercialization of global value, driving economic growth, company attraction, improving workforce training and improved quality of life in…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Vincent De Paul Social Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
34/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesOmega Community Development Corporation: $10,000 · Human ServicesDAYTON DREAM CENTER: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER MIAMI VALLEY INC: $32,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGOODWILL EASTER SEALS MIAMI VALLEY: $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Conference for Community and Justice of Greater Dayton: $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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 budgetEL PUENTE EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCROSS OVER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $12,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetSOCCER CENTERVILLE INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEBENEZER HEALTHCARE ACCESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE MIAMI VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Lady's Charitable Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOmega Community Development Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAYTON DREAM CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDayton Performing Arts Alliance: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dayton Children's Hospital funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dayton Children's Hospital. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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