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Randall & Nancy Dana Family Foundation

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.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of RANDALL & NANCY DANA FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$324k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MID-OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE$20,000
HOPE THRU HOUSING$1,000
FREEDOM TAILS OHIO ANIMAL RESCUE$1,000
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 (FY21–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOMMIES MATTER: $5k → 5%ASSOC CHARITIES OF ASHLAND OHIO: $1k → 11%FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES: $3k → 11%SIMPLE GIFTS FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%PATCHES OF LIGHT: $1k → 15%COMMUNITY FOR NEW DIRECTION: $5k → 15%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
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
Columbus Relief Inc

Supporting Homeless and Addicted Individuals with Food, Clothing and Spiritual Support.

Human Services
2
Friends of Recovery Ne Ohio

Provide Christ centered recovery homes offering hope, healing, and restoration for individuals recovering from addictive substances.

Crime & Legal
3
The Open Shelter Inc

The open shelter provides, directly or by referral emergency shelter and assistance for homeless and marginally housed persons in central ohio, especially the most vulnerable among them; and to provide directly or by referral, coordinated,…

Housing & Shelter
4
Freedom Tails Ohio

Animal Rescue

Animals
5
Happy Trails Farm Animal Sanctuary
Animals
6
New Housing Ohio Inc

Our mission is to improve the quality of life for underserved individuals by providing access to safe, decent, and affordable housing, and related support.

Health
7
Community Health Ohio

Community Health Ohio - TLC LLC - Providing mental health services to adults who have been diagnosed with severe and persistent mental health needs in Butler County. Community Health Ohio -SRS LLC is committed to be the provider of choice…

Health
8
Ohio Center for Hope

To promote mental health research in medical developments

Health
9
Onefifteen Recovery

Onefifteen recovery is a non-profit treatment organization dedicated to the full and sustained recovery of individuals living with substance use disorder. our mission is to heal people experiencing substance use disorders through learning,…

Health
10
Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

To 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 health care…

Human Services
11
Columbus Cares for Cats
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12
Animal Charity of Ohio Inc

The society is dedicated to promoting care for all animals. we strive to never turn away sick or injured. our goal is to bring about a world where humane societies are no longer necessary.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is OhioGuidestone and the most unlike its peers is Simple Gifts Foundation Inc % Jan Markus. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%10%5–10yr17%29%10–20yr14%14%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr24%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr17%14%10–20yr14%5%20–35yr14%48%35–55yr24%27%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
12%
1,210/9,897

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

20 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. 20 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Mid-Ohio Foodbank — $40,000 · OtherMid-Ohio FoodbankHOUSE OF HOPE FOR RECOVERY INC — $20,000 · OtherHOUSE OF HOPE FOR RECOVERY INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO — $10,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIOTHE SALVATION ARMY — $8,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA — $7,050 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICAASHLAND COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER — $4,000 · OtherOSU FOUNDATION — $4,000 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES — $4,000 · Other+7 more — $7,600 · Other+7 moreOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationOHIO STATE U…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationMOMMIES MATTER — $5,000 · Human ServicesMOMMIES MATT…SIMPLE GIFTS FOUNDATION INC % JAN MARKUS — $5,000 · Human ServicesSIMPLE GIFTS…COMMUNITY FOR NEW DIRECTION INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FO…FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING FA…PATCHES OF LIGHT — $1,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF ASHLAND OHIO INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesOhioGuidestone — $8,500 · HealthMARYHAVEN INC — $5,000 · HealthHOPE THRU HOUSING INC — $1,000 · HealthSHELTER OUTREACH SERVICES OF OHIO — $6,000 · AnimalsATHENS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $3,500 · AnimalsMULTIPLE BREED RESCUE — $3,000 · AnimalsCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $7,000 · PhilanthropyGRACEHAVEN INC — $4,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMPASSION OUTREACH MINISTRIES OF OHIO INC — $4,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$105,150Education$21,000Human Services$20,000Health$14,500Animals$12,500Philanthropy$7,000Housing & Shelter$4,000Crime & Legal$4,000

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 budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE FOR RECOVERY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOhioGuidestone — $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER OUTREACH SERVICES OF OHIO — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARYHAVEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOMMIES MATTER — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSIMPLE GIFTS FOUNDATION INC % JAN MARKUS — $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOR NEW DIRECTION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACEHAVEN INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPASSION OUTREACH MINISTRIES OF OHIO INC — $4,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetATHENS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $3,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMULTIPLE BREED RESCUE — $3,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRIES INC — $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPATCHES OF LIGHT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF ASHLAND OHIO INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE THRU HOUSING INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Columbus FoundationHarry C Moores Founda…United Way of Central…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Columbus FoundationOH27.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Randall & Nancy Dana Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Randall & Nancy Dana Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Randall & Nancy Dana Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 32 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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