· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- BSBellbrook Sugarcreek Community Support Centergraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +33%
- LMLITTLE MIAMI INCone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 56 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds JUST A PAIR OF SHOES ↗
- Who funds BELLBROOK LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION COMMON ↗
- Who funds Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE OAK TREE CORNER ↗
- 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 Bellbrook Sugarcreek Community Support Center ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds BRIGID'S PATH INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds MOORESTOWN THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds DAYTON DIAPER DEPOT ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nick and Edna Weller Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nick and Edna Weller Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Perkins Center for the Arts: 24% of income from government
How this is measured
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