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Middletown Community Foundation

To secure permanent and growing assets for the area's changing needs.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
58
Itemized grants FY2025
58
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.6M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$13,250
Largest grant, FY2025
$309,250
Organizations funded a year
26 to 64
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$50M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Middletown Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving55$1.6M20%
FY202458$1.2M29%
FY202364$1.4M33%
FY202249$1.3M24%
FY202152$885k33%
FY202041$720k46%
FY201927$435k41%
FY201826$427k58%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.5MHuman Services$1.6MArts & Culture$1.0MHealth$828kPhilanthropy$358kReligion$358kCommunity Improvement$307kYouth Development$231kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Butler County Educational Services$1,464,9907n/a
Miami University$546,8374n/a
Community Building Institute Middletown Inc$389,587622%
Atrium Medical Center Foundation$354,09992%
Abilities First Foundation Inc$241,33484%
United Way of Greater Cincinnati$235,49860%
Middletown Symphony Inc$214,7661n/a
Sorg Opera Revitalization Group LLC$168,528814%
Middletown Fine Arts Center$157,373611%
People Working Cooperatively Inc$146,50080%
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All grantees of Middletown Community Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Butler County Educational Services$1,464,9907n/a
Miami University$546,8374n/a
Community Building Institute Middletown Inc$389,587622%
Atrium Medical Center Foundation$354,09992%
Abilities First Foundation Inc$241,33484%
United Way of Greater Cincinnati$235,49860%
Middletown Symphony Inc$214,7661n/a
Sorg Opera Revitalization Group LLC$168,528814%
Middletown Fine Arts Center$157,373611%
People Working Cooperatively Inc$146,50080%
Holiday Whopla Inc$134,828425%
Butler County United Way$118,20352%
Performing Arts Academy$117,650615%
The Chamber Partnership for a Brighter Future$111,500718%
Art Central Foundation Inc$104,430827%
Middletown City School District$99,9604n/a
Hospice of Dayton Inc$99,07440%
Downtown Middletown Inc$96,68059%
3 R Development Incorporated$93,208810%
Middletown Lyric Theatre$92,4588n/a
Shriners Hospitals for Children$91,5001n/a
Focus on the Family$85,0005n/a
Community Pregnancy Center Inc$82,50065%
Great Miami Valley YMCA$73,43770%
Ohio State University Foundation$66,28250%
Middletown Historical Society$65,0004100%
Junior Achievement of Middletown Area$64,528344%
Middletown Area Neediest Youth$63,585619%
Ohio Living Foundation$57,04331%
Edgewood City Schools$47,5002n/a
Comprehensive Community Child Care Organization Inc$40,00030%
St John Bosco Schools$40,00022%
Little League International$34,200335%
Franklin City Schools$33,0853n/a
Lead Training$32,885319%
Madison Board of Education$32,4501n/a
Middies Athletic Booster Club Inc$30,600113%
Young Women's Christian Association of Hamilton Ohio Inc$30,50021%
Inspiration Studios$29,47032%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Butler County Inc$29,00031%
Salvation Army National Corp$28,8372n/a
Feed the Hungry Project$28,40034%
American Legion Post 218$27,590113%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$27,50030%
Adopt A Class Foundation Inc$27,50031%
Holy Family Parish St Vincent de Paul Conference$25,000215%
Dayton Children's Hospital$25,00020%
Ohio's Hospice Foundation$22,34510%
Community Action for Recovery And$22,0001n/a
The Middletown Ohio Kiwanis Foundation$20,559337%
Bulls Run Arboretum$20,5441n/a
Safe Haven Farms Inc$20,50023%
Key Better Days Society$20,0002n/a
Talbert House$20,00010%
Franklin Area Community Services Inc$20,00023%
Family Promise of Butler County Inc$19,30032%
Whiims Inc$18,7002n/a
Hope House Christian Counseling Center$18,30027%
Hannah's Treasure Chest$17,00021%
Supports to Encourage Low-Income Fa$17,00020%
Christ United Methodist Church$17,0002n/a
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio$16,50020%
Parachute Special Advocate for Children of Butler County$15,85031%
Hospice Care of Middletown Inc$15,81720%
Starfire$15,5001n/a
Caring Partners International Inc$15,00010%
Butler County Board of Elections$14,7981n/a
Middletown Central Club Inc$14,0002n/a
The Chamber of Commerce$13,90016%
Hands2hope Inc$13,000114%
Family Services of Middletown$12,5001n/a
Fitton Center for Creative Arts$11,13411%
5 Panes y 2 Peces$10,0001n/a
The Cincinnati Eye Institute Foundation$10,00013%
Lifespan Inc$10,00010%
We Can--Business Incubator Inc$10,0001n/a
Franklin Area Historical Society$10,0001n/a
Back 2 Back Ministries Inc$10,0001n/a
Young Life$8,50010%
Summit Academy Community School$8,09810%
Civil Air Patrol Inc$8,00010%
St Paul's United Church of Christ$7,6031n/a
Last Mile Food Rescue$7,50010%
Crayons to Classrooms$7,50010%
Safety Council of Southwestern Ohio$7,00012%
Shoes 4 the Shoeless Inc$6,20011%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$6,00010%
Kehila Kadosha Adath Israel Congregation$6,0001n/a
Crayons and Beyond Inc$6,00010%
Blue Star Families Inc$6,0001n/a
Monroe United Methodist Church$6,0001n/a
Cornerstone Methodist Church$5,7001n/a
Beechwood Church of God$5,6401n/a
Excel Beyond Limits$5,2501n/a
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio$5,15010%

Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Middletown Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Building Institute Middletown Inc: $389,587 over 6y, 22% of budgetAtrium Medical Center Foundation: $354,099 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetAbilities First Foundation Inc: $241,334 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $235,498 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSorg Opera Revitalization Group LLC: $168,528 over 8y, 14% of budgetMiddletown Fine Arts Center: $157,373 over 6y, 11% of budgetPeople Working Cooperatively Inc: $146,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHoliday Whopla Inc: $134,828 over 4y, 25% of budgetButler County United Way: $118,203 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPerforming Arts Academy: $117,650 over 6y, 15% of budgetThe Chamber Partnership for a Brighter Future: $111,500 over 7y, 18% of budgetArt Central Foundation Inc: $104,430 over 8y, 27% of budgetHospice of Dayton Inc: $99,074 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Middletown Inc: $96,680 over 5y, 9.2% of budget3 R Development Incorporated: $93,208 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetCommunity Pregnancy Center Inc: $82,500 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetGreat Miami Valley YMCA: $73,437 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOhio State University Foundation: $66,282 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMiddletown Historical Society: $65,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetJunior Achievement of Middletown Area: $64,528 over 3y, 44% of budgetMiddletown Area Neediest Youth: $63,585 over 6y, 19% of budgetOhio Living Foundation: $57,043 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetComprehensive Community Child Care Organization Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt John Bosco Schools: $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLittle League International: $34,200 over 3y, 35% of budgetLead Training: $32,885 over 3y, 19% of budgetMiddies Athletic Booster Club Inc: $30,600 over 1y, 13% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Hamilton Ohio Inc: $30,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetInspiration Studios: $29,470 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Butler County Inc: $29,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFeed the Hungry Project: $28,400 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetAmerican Legion Post 218: $27,590 over 1y, 13% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAdopt A Class Foundation Inc: $27,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHoly Family Parish St Vincent de Paul Conference: $25,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetDayton Children's Hospital: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOhio's Hospice Foundation: $22,345 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Middletown Ohio Kiwanis Foundation: $20,559 over 3y, 37% of budgetSafe Haven Farms Inc: $20,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTalbert House: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin Area Community Services Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFamily Promise of Butler County Inc: $19,300 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHope House Christian Counseling Center: $18,300 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetHannah's Treasure Chest: $17,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSupports to Encourage Low-Income Fa: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities Southwestern Ohio: $16,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetParachute Special Advocate for Children of Butler County: $15,850 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHospice Care of Middletown Inc: $15,817 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 64.

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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.

Miriam G Knoll Charitable Fdn 1045000040OH43.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Miriam G Knoll Charitable Fdn 1045000040 · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · First Financial Foundation · Butler County United Way · The Dayton Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation · The Northern Cincinnai Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Arthur Harvey Foundation Ct 1045000077 · Molyneaux Foundation 1045000246 · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation

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.

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About Middletown Community Foundation

How much does Middletown Community Foundation give?
Middletown Community Foundation reported 58 itemized grants totaling $1,590,297, out of $2,182,449 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Middletown Community Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Human Services (20%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are Middletown Community Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Butler County Educational Services ($1.5M), Miami University ($547k), Community Building Institute Middletown Inc ($390k).
Does Middletown Community Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Middletown Community Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Miriam G Knoll Charitable Fdn 1045000040, United Way of Greater Cincinnati, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation.
Where is Middletown Community Foundation based?
Middletown Community Foundation is based in OH.

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 163 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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