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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.

$37M
Granted FY2025still arriving
589
Grants FY2025still arriving
39
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$83MArts & Culture$44MHuman Services$38MHealth$24MReligion$16MEnvironment$8.6MFood & Nutrition$6.6MPhilanthropy$6.4MOther$0
02FY2025 · 589 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 589 grants below total $32,633,022, the rows itemized in this filing. The $37,256,401 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,623,379 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k190 grants · $1.4M
  • $10k–50k272 grants · $5.6M
  • $50k–250k100 grants · $10M
  • $250k+27 grants · $15M
$14,550
Median grant
39
States reached
$771M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AIM FOR SEVA: $670k → 12%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $105k → 9%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $91k → 9%MIAMI COUNTY YMCA: $75k → 10%GRACEWORKS LUTHERAN SERVICES: $73k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER CINCINNATI TRI-STATE CHAPTER: $101k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS OF SW OH AND N KY: $125k → 16%HOMEFULL: $128k → 14%HOMEFULL: $93k → 14%YELLOW SPRINGS COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $165k → 9%YELLOW SPRINGS COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $150k → 9%YELLOW SPRINGS COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $125k → 9%YELLOW SPRINGS COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $75k → 9%OMEGA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $219k → 14%OMEGA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $167k → 14%OMEGA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $94k → 14%SENIOR RESOURCE CONNECTION: $76k → 14%HANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST: $121k → 14%AREA AGENCY ON AGING PSA 2: $2.0M → 14%AREA AGENCY ON AGING PSA 2: $1.2M → 14%AREA AGENCY ON AGING PSA 2: $498k → 14%DAYBREAK: $418k → 14%DAYBREAK: $279k → 14%DAYBREAK: $243k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES: $207k → 14%DAYBREAK: $203k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE: $188k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES: $178k → 14%DAYBREAK: $172k → 14%DAYBREAK: $164k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES: $163k → 14%DAYBREAK: $160k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES: $155k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES: $154k → 14%DAYBREAK: $148k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES: $142k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES: $137k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS MIAMI VALLEY CHAPTER: $132k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS DAYTON AREA CHAPTER: $110k → 14%DAYBREAK: $107k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS MIAMI VALLEY CHAPTER: $100k → 14%PARITY INC: $99k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS MIAMI VALLEY CHAPTER: $97k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $90k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES: $85k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES: $81k → 14%MIAMI VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS: $75k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE: $74k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$247M · 676 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

676
407

Total granted

$247M
$8.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+7%

Still filing today

65%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON
    9× · 2017–2025 · $20M · revenue +406% · 46% of their budget
  • UO
    University of Dayton
    9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +38%
  • LT
    LEARN TO EARN DAYTON
    9× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +72% · 75% of their budget

Funded once

  • AI
    ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $670k · revenue 0%
  • WS
    WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $319k
  • CB
    CINCINNATI BLUE LINE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
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.

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.

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Delaware Valley University

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…

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2
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

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3
Lehigh University

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…

Education
4
DePauw University

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…

Education
5
The University of Toledo Foundation

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…

Education
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
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University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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United Way of Central Ohio Inc

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…

Philanthropy
11
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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12
Evangel University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hands Charitable Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

796 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. 796 of the 1,243 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.

55
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
184
Early backer (in before they grew)
773/796
Grantees still filing
512/796
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON: $19,630,265 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTONOAKWOOD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $8,745,577 · OtherOAKWOOD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT+114 more: $72,080,043 · Other+114 moreUniversity of Dayton: $13,600,141 · EducationUniversity of DaytonLEARN TO EARN DAYTON: $10,446,028 · EducationLEARN TO EARN DAYTONDAYTON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY INC: $6,931,433 · EducationDAYTON EARLY COLLEGE ACA…ANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION: $4,880,120 · EducationANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORAT…DAYTON MASONIC FOUNDATION: $1,704,435 · EducationCRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS: $1,695,079 · Education+19 more: $9,940,234 · Education+19 moreVICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $9,379,120 · Arts & CultureVICTORIA THEATRE A…DAYTON HISTORY: $8,663,043 · Arts & CultureDAYTON HISTORYDayton Performing Arts Alliance: $7,657,307 · Arts & CultureDayton Performing …DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: $2,713,190 · Arts & CultureDAYTON CONTEMPORAR…THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE: $1,459,841 · Arts & CultureCULTURE WORKS: $1,357,912 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $4,945,926 · Arts & Culture+10 moreOHIO'S HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $3,416,006 · HealthDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,838,409 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION: $1,311,590 · HealthMIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $970,112 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $704,994 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $663,293 · HealthBRIGID'S PATH INC: $655,372 · HealthThe Christ Hospital Foundation: $500,000 · HealthDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $499,796 · HealthTHE NOBLE CIRCLE PROJECT: $468,225 · Health+5 more: $1,528,771 · HealthAREA AGENCY ON AGING PLANNING AND SERVICE AREA 2: $3,740,604 · Human ServicesDAYBREAK INC: $1,894,799 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $1,301,071 · Human ServicesALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC: $670,000 · Human ServicesOmega Community Development Corporation: $655,914 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $562,437 · Human ServicesYELLOW SPRINGS COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $540,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF DAYTON OHIO INC: $500,327 · Human ServicesGRACEWORKS LUTHERAN SERVICES: $457,071 · Human Services+11 more: $3,212,045 · Human ServicesFriends of Aullwood Inc: $5,873,982 · EnvironmentGLEN HELEN ASSOCIATION: $697,318 · EnvironmentWOODLAND ARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $446,450 · Environment+2 more: $429,829 · EnvironmentTHE FOODBANK INC: $3,361,834 · Food & NutritionHOUSE OF BREAD: $689,987 · Food & NutritionMIAMI VALLEY MEALS INC: $475,487 · Food & Nutrition
Other$100,455,885Education$49,197,470Arts & Culture$36,176,339Health$13,556,568Human Services$13,534,268Environment$7,447,579Food & Nutrition$4,527,308

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON: $19,630,265 over 9y, 46% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $13,600,141 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetLEARN TO EARN DAYTON: $10,446,028 over 9y, 75% of budgetVICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $9,379,120 over 9y, 36% of budgetDAYTON HISTORY: $8,663,043 over 9y, 28% of budgetDayton Performing Arts Alliance: $7,657,307 over 9y, 18% of budgetDAYTON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY INC: $6,931,433 over 9y, 22% of budgetFriends of Aullwood Inc: $5,873,982 over 9y, 88% of budgetANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION: $4,880,120 over 6y, 15% of budgetAREA AGENCY ON AGING PLANNING AND SERVICE AREA 2: $3,740,604 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetOHIO'S HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $3,416,006 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetTHE FOODBANK INC: $3,361,834 over 9y, 6.4% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER DAYTON AREA: $3,081,322 over 9y, 13% of budgetCALVARY CEMETERY ASSOCIATION OF DAYTON OHIO: $3,041,905 over 5y, 22% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,838,409 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetDAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: $2,713,190 over 9y, 29% of budgetTHE MUSE MACHINE INC: $2,079,812 over 9y, 23% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE MIAMI VALLEY: $1,960,747 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DAYTON: $1,935,253 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetDAYBREAK INC: $1,894,799 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC: $1,807,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetDAYTON MASONIC FOUNDATION: $1,704,435 over 9y, 86% of budgetCRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS: $1,695,079 over 9y, 11% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON: $1,685,877 over 9y, 8.0% of budgetGOODWILL EASTER SEALS MIAMI VALLEY: $1,645,927 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetSociety for the Improvement of Conditions for Stray Animals: $1,645,685 over 9y, 11% of budgetDECA PREP INC: $1,616,508 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetEDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INCORPORATED DBA THE MIAMI VALLEY SCHOOL: $1,474,045 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetTHE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE: $1,459,841 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetThe Dayton Metro Library Foundation: $1,358,512 over 7y, 67% of budgetCULTURE WORKS: $1,357,912 over 9y, 31% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION: $1,311,590 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $1,301,071 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $1,143,069 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetDAYTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,006,426 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetST MARY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $997,757 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetMIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $970,112 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetThe Human Race Inc: $954,087 over 9y, 14% of budgetCEC ARTSLINK INC: $905,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetCOUNTY CORP: $888,686 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetUNITED REHABILITATION SERVICES OF GREATER DAYTON: $797,299 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetFisherNightingale Houses Inc: $763,350 over 5y, 44% of budgetYWCA Dayton: $758,426 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $750,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNehemiah Project Intl Ministries: $733,200 over 9y, 14% of budgetHOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER OF GREATER DAYTON INC: $719,235 over 4y, 61% of budgetTHE SEEDLING FOUNDATION OF DAYTON OHIO: $713,258 over 9y, 49% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $704,994 over 9y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Dayton Foundation Dep…Dayton Foundation Plu…Mathile Family Founda…The United Way of the…Virginia W Kettering …Levin Family Foundati…Miami Valley HospitalThe Dayton Power and …Iddings Benevolent Tr…Greene County Communi…The CareSource Founda…The Troy Foundation
Dayton Foundation DepositoryOH214× affinity355 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Dayton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dayton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 The Dayton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Dayton 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 1243 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 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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