· Community foundation
The Dayton Foundation
To operate exclusively for charitable, scientific, or educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, as amended.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 589 grants below total $32,633,022 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $37,256,401 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,623,379 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k190 grants · $1.4M
- $10k–50k272 grants · $5.6M
- $50k–250k100 grants · $10M
- $250k+27 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AREA AGENCY ON AGING PSA 2 | $2,035,560 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON | $1,098,984 |
| DAYTON PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE | $1,041,899 |
| DAYTON HISTORY | $958,774 |
| COUNTY CORP | $875,000 |
| OAKWOOD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $742,186 |
| DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $739,704 |
| LEARN TO EARN DAYTON | $584,052 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION | $570,000 |
| FRIENDS OF AULLWOOD INC | $551,343 |
| NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| OHIO'S HOSPICE OF DAYTON FOUNDATION | $462,277 |
| DAYTON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY | $437,681 |
| THE MIAMI VALLEY SCHOOL | $434,267 |
| DAYBREAK | $418,363 |
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 (FY17–25, $13.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
676 repeat relationships — 446 still active in FY2025, 230 since wound down; 121 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M 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
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON9× · 2017–2025 · $20M · revenue +406% · 46% of their budget
- UOUniversity of Dayton9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +38%
- LTLEARN TO EARN DAYTON9× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +72% · 75% of their budget
Funded once
- AIALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INCone grant, 2024 · $670k · revenue 0%
- WSWRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $319k
- CBCINCINNATI BLUE LINE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
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.
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 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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hands Charitable Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vanguard Concerts. 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 37 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% 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.
796 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. 796 of the 1,243 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.
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds LEARN TO EARN DAYTON ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DAYTON HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Dayton Performing Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds DAYTON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Aullwood Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AREA AGENCY ON AGING PLANNING AND SERVICE AREA 2 ↗
- Who funds OHIO'S HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER DAYTON AREA ↗
- Who funds CALVARY CEMETERY ASSOCIATION OF DAYTON OHIO ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE MUSE MACHINE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE MIAMI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DAYTON ↗
- Who funds DAYBREAK INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds DAYTON MASONIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL EASTER SEALS MIAMI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Society for the Improvement of Conditions for Stray Animals ↗
- Who funds DECA PREP INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INCORPORATED DBA THE MIAMI VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Dayton Metro Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds CULTURE WORKS ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION ↗
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 · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Mathile Family Foundation · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · Levin Family Foundation · Miami Valley Hospital · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · Greene County Community Foundation · The CareSource Foundation · The Troy 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 Dayton 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.
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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