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The Berry Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k61 grants · $163k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $336k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAYTON ART INSTITUTE | $205,000 |
| DAYTON LIVE | $200,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON | $102,500 |
| SICSA | $101,750 |
| DAYTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| OMEGA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $100,000 |
| EAST END COMMUNITY SERVICES | $100,000 |
| DAYTON PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE | $80,000 |
| DAYTON HISTORY AT CARILLON HISTORIC | $50,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $37,800 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL AVIATION HALL OF FAME | $25,000 |
| AGAPE | $25,000 |
| GOODWILL EASTER SEALS | $20,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $375k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
110 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 31 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k 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
- UOUniversity of Dayton7× · 2018–2024 · $824k · revenue +27%
- DPDayton Performing Arts Alliance5× · 2020–2024 · $580k · revenue +11%
- CUCedarville University3× · 2021–2023 · $500k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- EEEAST END COMM SVCSone grant, 2022 · $150k
- URUNITED REHABILITATION SERVICES OF GREATER DAYTONone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +16%
- HHHANDS & HEARTS FOR HORSES INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +49%
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 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.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
To promote, support, and facilitate meritorious biomedical and health services research and education activities conducted by investigators at the dayton va medical center that contribute to improve healthcare for veterans and the general…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Classical Dance Arts Foundation. 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 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
108 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. 108 of the 211 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds WOODLAND ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL EASTER SEALS MIAMI VALLEY ↗
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- Who funds WESTCARE OHIO INC ↗
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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: Dayton Foundation Depository · The Dayton Foundation · Mathile Family Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Levin Family Foundation · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · The Fred and Alice Wallace Charitable Memorial Foundation · Miami Valley Hospital · Kettering Family 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 The Berry 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.
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Avow Hospice Inc — 0% 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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