· Private foundation
Frank M Tait Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k19 grants · $345k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESCHOOL PROMISE | $72,000 |
| 4C FOR CHILDREN | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| WESTCARE OHIO | $30,000 |
| GOODWILL EASTERSEALS MIAMI VALLEY | $25,000 |
| ON PURPOSE ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| DAYTON ART INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| KIDS IN NEW DIRECTIONS (KIND) | $20,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $15,000 |
| BRIGID'S PATH | $15,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| UNITED REHABILITATION SERVICES | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
- PPPRESCHOOL PROMISE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $469k · revenue +122%
- LTLEARN TO EARN DAYTON5× · 2017–2023 · $385k · revenue +72%
- GEGOODWILL EASTER SEALS MIAMI VALLEY7× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- WFWESTCARE FOUNDATION DBA EAST END COMMUNITY SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $50k
- MCMONTGOMERY COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES CENTERone grant, 2020 · $50k
- CCCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION INCone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +22%
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 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.
To promote community by nuturing children and empowering familites in a christian environment by providing childcare services and supportive services for families.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.
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,…
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…
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,…
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.
Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
Our mission is to foster fair and substantive debates that encourage participation in our democracy, and our vision is of a stronger Ohio, with well informed voters and highly qualified public servants, candidates, and elected officials.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dayton Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Miami Valley 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.
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 field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 58 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.
- Who funds PRESCHOOL PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds LEARN TO EARN DAYTON ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL EASTER SEALS MIAMI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Kids in New Directions ↗
- Who funds DAYTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCARE OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds SINCLAIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIGID'S PATH INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DAYBREAK INC ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE MUSE MACHINE INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds AIR CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Dayton Performing Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds UNITED REHABILITATION SERVICES OF GREATER DAYTON ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER MIAMI VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Alliance Community Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds Omega Community Development Corporation ↗
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: Mathile Family Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Dayton Foundation Depository · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · The CareSource Foundation · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · WPCU Sunshine Community Fund · Miami Valley Hospital · Levin Family Foundation · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003
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 Frank M Tait Foundation 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.
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