· Community foundation
Dayton Foundation Depository
To operate exclusively for charitable, scientific, or educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, as amended.
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 677 grants below total $22,720,187 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $25,368,217 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,648,030 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 $10k241 grants · $1.6M
- $10k–50k355 grants · $7.0M
- $50k–250k70 grants · $7.4M
- $250k+11 grants · $6.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,792,990 |
| ST PAUL & ST ANDREW UNITED METHODIST | $1,000,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON | $640,465 |
| LIMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $589,977 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON | $569,577 |
| NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $500,100 |
| ST ROSE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $400,000 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE MIAMI VALLEY | $327,305 |
| FAIRHAVEN CHURCH | $320,506 |
| ST ALBERT THE GREAT CHURCH | $302,183 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $275,500 |
| THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE | $246,500 |
| CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER | $227,424 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $210,139 |
| OHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE AKA SECOND HARVEST OF SPRINGFIELD | $195,200 |
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 (FY17–25, $7.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
880 repeat relationships — 500 still active in FY2025, 380 since wound down; 143 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M 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 Dayton9× · 2017–2025 · $7.2M · revenue +38%
- FOFRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON7× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +49%
- DHDAYTON HISTORY9× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +14%
Funded once
- TWTHE WATERFORD PROJECTone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue -4%
- FCFAIRHAVEN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $992k
- PCPREBLE COUNTY ART ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $514k · revenue -89% · 41% of their budget
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.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hands Charitable Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Glen at St Joseph. 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1008 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. 1008 of the 1,742 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON ↗
- Who funds DAYTON HISTORY ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dayton Performing Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds GREATER DAYTON UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE MIAMI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds UNITED REHABILITATION SERVICES OF GREATER DAYTON ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds Wright State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DAYTON ARCADE ↗
- Who funds DAYBREAK INC ↗
- Who funds Lima Convalescent Home Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WATERFORD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BRIGID'S PATH INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO'S HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MUSE MACHINE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds COUNTY CORP ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DAYTON INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
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 · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Mathile Family Foundation · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Levin Family Foundation · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · Miami Valley Hospital · Greene County Community Foundation · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · The Berry Family Foundation · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · The Troy Foundation
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 Foundation Depository 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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