· Private foundation
The Connor Group Foundation aka The Connor Group Kids and Community Partners
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of The Connor Group Foundation aka The Connor Group Kids and Community Partners’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $608k
- $250k+5 grants · $4.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER DAYTON SCHOOL | $1,929,417 |
| SPROUTFIVE | $800,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $800,000 |
| CONNOR KIDS ACADEMY | $402,298 |
| LINDNER CENTER OF HOPE | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL | $210,000 |
| DAYTON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY | $175,000 |
| THE UNIT FOUNDATION | $173,279 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| YOUTH RENEWAL FUND | $25,000 |
| WRIGHT B FLYER INC | $10,000 |
| CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL | $5,500 |
| BIRDIES FOR BABIES | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI GOLDEN GLOVES | $5,000 |
| LITTLE MIAMI WATERSHED NETWORK | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $280k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +59% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k 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
- DCDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL7× · 2017–2023 · $4.6M · revenue +140%
- DEDAYTON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +62%
- TBTHE BOTTOM LINE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +5%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $14M
- CNCODE NATION (FKA SCRIPTED)one grant, 2021 · $650k
- CDCognitive Differences Network of Southwest Ohioone grant, 2021 · $413k · 88% of their budget
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
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…
See schedule othe marine corps scholarship foundation is the nation's oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarships to military children. founded in 1962, the marine corps scholarship foundation provides access to education for…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cognitive Differences Network of Southwest Ohio. 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 34 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 63% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 103 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 GREATER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds DAYTON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ROAD2HIRE ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds The Unit Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SIDE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Learn To Be Foundation ↗
- Who funds Connor Kids Academy ↗
- Who funds FUGEES FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VICTORY PROJECT LLC ↗
- Who funds Cognitive Differences Network of Southwest Ohio ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC ↗
- Who funds DAYBREAK INC ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds CITYLINK CENTER ↗
- Who funds UPSPRING ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIPARI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
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 Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · The Berry Family Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Levin Family Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1 · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Greene County Community Foundation · Louise Kramer 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 Connor Group Foundation aka The Connor Group Kids and Community Partners 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.
- The Bottom Line 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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