· Private foundation
Nick and Edna Weller Charities Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION TO ASSIST YOUNG MUSICIANS | $80,000 |
| DAYTON PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| LEARNING TREE FARM | $25,000 |
| BLACK BROTHERS-BLACK SISTERS INVOLVEMENT | $25,000 |
| THE TANDANA FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| YOUNG LADIES ASPIRING GREATNESS | $10,000 |
| MCLENDON INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING | $10,000 |
| THE FOODBANK INC | $10,000 |
| WE CARE ARTS | $10,000 |
| JUST A PAIR OF SHOES | $10,000 |
| 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY | $10,000 |
| DAYTON DIAPER DEPOT | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $900 |
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 (FY18–25, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- FTFOUNDATION TO ASSIST YOUNG MUSICIAN8× · 2018–2025 · $580k · revenue +195% · 61% of their budget
- TLThe Learning Tree Farm Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $162k · revenue +61%
- BBBLACK BROTHERS-BLACK SISTERS INVOLVEMENT6× · 2020–2025 · $161k · revenue +58% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
- BLBELLBROOK LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION COMMONone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -12%
- BPBUTLER PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAone grant, 2019 · $10k
- ASASHLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +6%
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 dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.
The mission of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is to promote and encourage reading by the children of the State of Ohio, including for such purposes the provision of books to children through Dolly Parton's Imagination Library and…
Rooted in its unique history, the dairy barn arts center enriches lives and cultivates community through equitable access to the arts.
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.
The mission of the little exchange foundation is to maximize donations for its charitable endeavors, to oversee the strategic management of the little exchange retail establishment, and to provide an environment that promotes…
To promote community by nuturing children and empowering familites in a christian environment by providing childcare services and supportive services for families.
Our mission is to provide students with authentic montessori educational experiences, to educate the students families, teachers, and community, and to promote peace and peace education in our community.
Our mission is to create a more compassionate community for cats in dayton, oh.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
The mission of The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) is to educate, entertain and engage audiences of all ages through professional theatrical productions and arts education programming. Our vision is to awaken a lifelong love of…
YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crayons to Classrooms and the most unlike its peers is Bellbrook Lions Club Foundation Common. 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 23 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 56 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 FOUNDATION TO ASSIST YOUNG MUSICIAN ↗
- Who funds Dayton Performing Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds The Learning Tree Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACK BROTHERS-BLACK SISTERS INVOLVEMENT ↗
- Who funds GREENE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TANDANA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST ↗
- Who funds PERKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds We Care Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNLIGHT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF BREAD ↗
- Who funds JUST A PAIR OF SHOES ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds BELLBROOK LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION COMMON ↗
- Who funds Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV ↗
- Who funds THE OAK TREE CORNER ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds DAYTON INTERNATIONAL PEACE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Little Miami Watershed Network ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Bellbrook Sugarcreek Community Support Center ↗
- Who funds BRIGID'S PATH INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC RIDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DAYTON DIAPER DEPOT ↗
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: The Dayton Foundation · Mathile Family Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · Levin Family Foundation · Cpps Heritage Mission Fund · The Fred and Alice Wallace Charitable Memorial Foundation · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area
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 Nick and Edna Weller Charities Inc 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.
- Perkins Center for the Arts — 24% of income from government
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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