How much does Frank M Tait Foundation give?

Frank M Tait Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $417,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Frank M Tait Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Health (16%), Arts & Culture (12%).

Who are Frank M Tait Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Preschool Promise Inc ($469k), Learn to Earn Dayton ($385k), Goodwill Easter Seals Miami Valley ($120k).

Does Frank M Tait Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Frank M Tait Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Frank M Tait Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mathile Family Foundation, The Dayton Foundation, Dayton Foundation Plus Inc.

Where is Frank M Tait Foundation based?

Frank M Tait Foundation is based in OH.

Frank M Tait Foundation

Frank M Tait Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Frank M Tait Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$417k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$72k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.5MHealth$525kArts & Culture$377kHuman Services$305kYouth Development$265kEmployment$120kReligion$45kCommunity Improvement$20kOther$0

02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k19 grants · $345k
$50k–250k1 grant · $72k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PRESCHOOL PROMISE	$72,000
Individual grant recipient	$40,000
4C FOR CHILDREN	$40,000
WESTCARE OHIO	$30,000
ON PURPOSE ACADEMY	$25,000
GOODWILL EASTERSEALS MIAMI VALLEY	$25,000
DAYTON ART INSTITUTE	$20,000
KIDS IN NEW DIRECTIONS (KIND)	$20,000
GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION	$15,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS	$15,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA	$15,000
ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER	$15,000
BRIGID'S PATH	$15,000
PREVENT BLINDNESS OHIO	$10,000
UNITED REHABILITATION SERVICES	$10,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.8M · 33 repeat orgs$427k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.8M

$332k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+22%

Still filing today

64%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther

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

PP
PRESCHOOL PROMISE INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $469k · revenue +104%
LT
LEARN TO EARN DAYTON
5× · 2017–2023 · $385k · revenue +72%
GE
GOODWILL EASTER SEALS MIAMI VALLEY
7× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +135%

Funded once

MC
MONTGOMERY COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $50k
WF
WESTCARE FOUNDATION DBA EAST END COMMUNITY SERVICES
one grant, 2022 · $50k
CC
COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION INC
one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +22%

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.

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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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

Digitalc

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

Community Improvement

Ohio United Way

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

Philanthropy

School Choice Ohio Inc

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.

Education

Development Research Corporation

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,…

Community Improvement

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

Dayton Development Coalition

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Dayton Realtors

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.

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Diabetes Partnership of Cleveland

Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.

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Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy

Ohio Debate Commission Inc

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.

Civil Rights

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dayton Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 58 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/33

Grantees still filing

26/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,044,925Other$1,032,500Arts & Culture$317,000Human Services$250,000Health$245,000Youth Development$195,000Employment$120,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Mathile Family FoundationOH68.1× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Frank M Tait Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank M Tait Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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