· Private foundation
The Danis Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON | $50,000 |
| CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $34,000 |
| MOUNT CARMEL FOUNDATION | $33,333 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH | $25,000 |
| FORT HAMILTON HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| WRIGHT MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| HAMPTON UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| THE COLLEGE OF DESIGN | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $1,500 |
| CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
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 (FY25–25, $1k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 27% of The Danis Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 67%.
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 +78% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 8 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation7× · 2017–2024 · $680k · revenue +208%
- KMKETTERING MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $551k · revenue +201%
- UOUniversity of Dayton8× · 2017–2025 · $332k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- OSOAKWOOD SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- JBJESIE BALL DUPONT FUNDone grant, 2019 · $14k
- DSDAYTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +52%
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.
Our mission is to live god's love by promoting and restoring health.
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Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
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As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
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How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 65 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 Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds KETTERING MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Cedarville University ↗
- Who funds Grandview Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Christ Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE VICTORY PROJECT LLC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Dayton Performing Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds FORT HAMILTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV ↗
- Who funds DAYTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE FORT HAMILTON HOSPITAL ↗
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 · The Troy Foundation · Kettering Family Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · Levin Family Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · The Schiewetz Foundation Inc · Frank M Tait Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Danis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Danis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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