· Community foundation
Middletown Community Foundation
To secure permanent and growing assets for the area's changing needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24, $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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k 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
- AMATRIUM MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $319k · revenue +34%
- SOSORG OPERA REVITALIZATION GROUP LLC7× · 2018–2024 · $145k · revenue +296%
- PWPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $122k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- MSMIDDLETOWN SYMPHONY INCone grant, 2017 · $215k
- MPMOUNT PLEASANT RETIREMENT VILLAGEone grant, 2017 · $33k
- ALAMERICAN LEGION POST 218graduatedone 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.
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.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
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.
To align community resources and generate insights that strengthen central ohio.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
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…
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.
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.
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
Training for community action.
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.
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.
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 field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
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.