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Randall & Nancy Dana Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$41kFood & Nutrition$40kHuman Services$27kEducation$25kAnimals$19kHousing & Shelter$14kPhilanthropy$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is OhioGuidestone; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 32 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · PhilanthropyCOMPASSION OUTREACH MINISTRIES OF OHIO INC: $4,000 · Crime & LegalGRACEHAVEN INC: $4,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$105,150Education$21,000Human Services$20,000Health$14,500Animals$12,500Philanthropy$7,000Crime & Legal$4,000Housing & Shelter$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetMOMMIES MATTER: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSIMPLE GIFTS FOUNDATION INC % JAN MARKUS: $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMARYHAVEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOR NEW DIRECTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSION OUTREACH MINISTRIES OF OHIO INC: $4,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGRACEHAVEN INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE THRU HOUSING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATCHES OF LIGHT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF ASHLAND OHIO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Randall & Nancy Dana Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Randall & Nancy Dana Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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