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Middletown Community Foundation

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

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$207k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$2.5MHuman Services$1.6MArts & Culture$1.0MHealth$828kPhilanthropy$358kReligion$358kCommunity Improvement$307kYouth Development$231kOther$0
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 60 grants below total $1,172,391 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,687,944 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $515,553 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $156k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $626k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $390k
$12,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUTLER COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES$207,000
MIAMI UNIVERSITY$122,841
ATRIUM MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$59,860
MOUNT PLEASANT LIFE CARE FUND$36,138
MIDDLETOWN AREA CHAMBER FNDN$35,000
SORG OPERA REVITALIZATION GROUP$32,500
MADISON BOARD OF EDUCATION$32,450
MIDDLETOWN CITY SCHOOLS$31,430
MIDDLETOWN ARTS CENTER$26,279
PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY$25,000
HOSPICE OF WARREN & BUTLER COUNTY$22,345
BUTLER COUNTY UNITED WAY$22,029
DOWNTOWN MIDDLETOWN INC$21,080
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$18,435
ST VINCENT DEPAUL$17,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $536k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MOUNT PLEASANT LIFE CARE FUND: $36k → 5%HANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST: $10k → 14%OHIO LIVING FOUNDATION: $6k → 5%HANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST: $7k → 14%HANDS 2 HOPE: $13k → 12%HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $27k → 14%HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $26k → 14%HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS MIAMI VALLEY: $10k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SOUTHWESTERN: $10k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS MIAMI VALLEY: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS MIAMI VALLEY: $8k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE: $10k → 16%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE: $10k → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $20k → 16%LIFESPAN INC: $10k → 12%SUPPORT TO ENCOURAGE LOW INCOME FAM: $9k → 12%SUPPORT TO ENCOURAGE LOW INCOME FAM: $9k → 12%GREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA: $7k → 12%MIDDLETOWN AREA YMCA: $10k → 12%GREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA: $9k → 12%GREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA: $6k → 12%GREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA: $6k → 12%ABILITIES FIRST FOUNDATION: $117k → 12%ABILITIES FIRST FOUNDATION: $42k → 12%ABILITIES FIRST FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%ABILITIES FIRST FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%FAMILY SERVICES OF MIDDLETOWN: $13k → 12%ABILITIES FIRST FOUNDATION: $12k → 12%ABILITIES FIRST FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%HOSPICE CARE OF MIDDLETOWN: $9k → 12%ABILITIES FIRST FOUNDATION: $7k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.7M · 81 repeat orgs$995k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

81 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
53

Total granted

$6.7M
$786k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+10%

Still filing today

48%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • AM
    ATRIUM MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $319k · revenue +34%
  • SO
    SORG OPERA REVITALIZATION GROUP LLC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $145k · revenue +296%
  • PW
    PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $122k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • MS
    MIDDLETOWN SYMPHONY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $215k
  • MP
    MOUNT PLEASANT RETIREMENT VILLAGE
    one grant, 2017 · $33k
  • AL
    AMERICAN LEGION POST 218graduated
    one grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue +152%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
2
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

3
Handson Central Ohio Inc

To align community resources and generate insights that strengthen central ohio.

4
Philanthropy Ohio

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

Philanthropy
5
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
6
Ohio United Way

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

Philanthropy
7
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

8
Ohio Chamber of Commerce

As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.

9
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

10
Community Shelter Board

The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

11
Ohio Community Action Training Organization

Training for community action.

Education
12
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Middletown Area and the most unlike its peers is 3 R Development Incorporated. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPrivate Membership ClubsYouth Sports OrganizationsSocial Justice Advocacy Net…Student College Readiness P…Early Childhood Education C…Veterans and Fraternal Orga…Substance Abuse Recovery Se…Supportive Housing for Vuln…Disability Housing & Suppor…Pregnancy Support ServicesFood Assistance & Hunger Re…Cincinnati Philanthropic Fu…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr13%10%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr14%25%35–55yr21%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%5%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr15%6%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr21%37%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/83
the rest of the field
12%
927/7,574

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.

04the grantee network

62 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 151 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/62
Grantees still filing
37/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BUTLER COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES — $1,220,880 · OtherBUTLER COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICESSHRINERS CHILDREN'S OHIO — $515,342 · OtherSHRINERS CHILDREN'S OHIOMIAMI UNIVERSITY — $379,474 · OtherMIAMI UNIVERSITYMIDDLETOWN BOARD OF EDUCATION — $311,372 · OtherMIDDLETOWN BOARD OF EDUCATIONMIDDLETOWN SYMPHONY INC — $214,766 · Other+111 more — $2,981,157 · Other+111 moreAbilities First Foundation Inc — $223,265 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF DAYTON INC — $77,974 · Human ServicesGREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA — $54,334 · Human ServicesOHIO LIVING FOUNDATION — $42,188 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $27,500 · Human ServicesTALBERT HOUSE — $20,000 · Human ServicesCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION INC — $20,000 · Human Services+8 more — $94,281 · Human ServicesATRIUM MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $319,403 · HealthCOMMUNITY PREGNANCY CENTER INC — $67,500 · HealthDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $25,000 · HealthOHIO'S HOSPICE FOUNDATION — $22,345 · HealthHope House Christian Counseling Center — $18,300 · Health+2 more — $16,000 · HealthSORG OPERA REVITALIZATION GROUP LLC — $144,528 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY — $117,650 · Arts & CultureMIDDLETOWN FINE ARTS CENTER — $99,929 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $11,134 · Arts & CultureHoliday Whopla Inc — $121,578 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN MIDDLETOWN INC — $81,680 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY BUILDING INSTITUTE MIDDLETOWN INC — $80,337 · Community Improvement+1 more — $7,000 · Community ImprovementUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati — $235,498 · Philanthropy+1 more — $6,000 · PhilanthropyPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC — $121,500 · Housing & ShelterSAFE HAVEN FARMS INC — $20,500 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF BUTLER COUNTY INC — $14,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$5,622,991Human Services$559,542Health$468,548Arts & Culture$373,241Community Improvement$290,595Philanthropy$241,498Housing & Shelter$156,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetATRIUM MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $319,403 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati — $235,498 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAbilities First Foundation Inc — $223,265 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetSORG OPERA REVITALIZATION GROUP LLC — $144,528 over 7y, 14% of budgetHoliday Whopla Inc — $121,578 over 3y, 25% of budgetPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC — $121,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY — $117,650 over 6y, 15% of budgetBUTLER COUNTY UNITED WAY — $101,065 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CHAMBER PARTNERSHIP FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE — $100,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetMIDDLETOWN FINE ARTS CENTER — $99,929 over 5y, 11% of budgetART CENTRAL FOUNDATION INC — $94,230 over 7y, 27% of budgetDOWNTOWN MIDDLETOWN INC — $81,680 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY BUILDING INSTITUTE MIDDLETOWN INC — $80,337 over 5y, 3.3% of budget3 R Development Incorporated — $79,108 over 7y, 9.5% of budgetHOSPICE OF DAYTON INC — $77,974 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PREGNANCY CENTER INC — $67,500 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetMIDDLETOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $59,500 over 3y, 100% of budgetGREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA — $54,334 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $53,661 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLETOWN AREA NEEDIEST YOUTH — $51,140 over 5y, 18% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLETOWN AREA — $49,197 over 2y, 44% of budgetOHIO LIVING FOUNDATION — $42,188 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSt John Bosco Schools — $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% 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 budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL — $23,700 over 2y, 35% of budgetINSPIRATION STUDIOS — $22,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFEED THE HUNGRY PROJECT — $22,400 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetOHIO'S HOSPICE FOUNDATION — $22,345 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE HAVEN FARMS INC — $20,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BUTLER COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFRANKLIN AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTALBERT HOUSE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHope House Christian Counseling Center — $18,300 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetAdopt A Class Foundation Inc — $17,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHOLY FAMILY PARISH ST VINCENT DE PAUL CONFERENCE — $17,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSUPPORTS TO ENCOURAGE LOW-INCOME FA — $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST — $17,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HAMILTON OHIO INC — $16,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF BUTLER COUNTY INC — $14,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $13,900 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetHANDS2HOPE INC — $13,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLEAD TRAINING — $12,885 over 2y, 19% of budgetFITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS — $11,134 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Middletown Ohio Kiwanis Foundation — $11,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetPARACHUTE SPECIAL ADVOCATE FOR CHILDREN OF BUTLER COUNTY — $10,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budget
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 ATRIUM MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati
  • Who funds Abilities First Foundation Inc
  • Who funds MIDDLETOWN SYMPHONY INC
  • Who funds SORG OPERA REVITALIZATION GROUP LLC
  • Who funds Holiday Whopla Inc
  • Who funds PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC
  • Who funds PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY
  • Who funds BUTLER COUNTY UNITED WAY
  • Who funds THE CHAMBER PARTNERSHIP FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE
  • Who funds MIDDLETOWN FINE ARTS CENTER
  • Who funds ART CENTRAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN MIDDLETOWN INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY BUILDING INSTITUTE MIDDLETOWN INC
  • Who funds 3 R Development Incorporated
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF DAYTON INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CENTER INC
  • Who funds MIDDLETOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds GREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MIDDLETOWN AREA NEEDIEST YOUTH
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLETOWN AREA

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.

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

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 Middletown Community 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your 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
    20report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 151 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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