Does The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dayton Foundation, Dayton Foundation Depository, Dayton Foundation Plus Inc.

The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation

The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation at a glance

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The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation

Q: What does The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Human Services (10%), Youth Development (8%).

Q: Who are The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Dayton Performing Arts Alliance ($940k), The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area ($591k), The Dayton Art Institute ($525k).

Q: Does The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$120k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.4MHuman Services$920kYouth Development$799kPhilanthropy$781kHealth$743kEducation$718kCommunity Improvement$415kPublic Safety & Disaster$360kOther$0

02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $46k
$10k–50k25 grants · $480k
$50k–250k19 grants · $1.1M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$26M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DAYTON PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE	$120,000
DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$75,000
DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$75,000
GREATER DAYTON PUBLIC TELEVISION (THINKTV)	$75,000
GREATER DAYTON PUBLIC TELEVISION (THINKTV)	$60,000
UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON	$54,000
YWCA DAYTON	$50,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON	$50,000
WYSO PUBLIC RADIO (MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA DBA WYSO)	$50,000
DAYTON ART INSTITUTE	$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON	$50,000
FOODBANK OF DAYTON	$50,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS-DAYTON CHAPTER	$50,000
EAST END COMMUNITY SERVICES WESTCARE OHIO INC	$50,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS-DAYTON CHAPTER	$50,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $876k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.5M · 70 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

70 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.5M

$842k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

Still filing today

73%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

VT
VICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION
5× · 2017–2024 · $385k · revenue +134%
OC
Omega Community Development Corporation
3× · 2017–2019 · $350k · revenue +835%
DC
DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
3× · 2017–2024 · $325k · revenue +140%

Funded once

WS
WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2023 · $150k
UW
UNITED WAY OF GREATER DAYTON
one grant, 2023 · $75k
SC
SINCLAIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +122%

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.

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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Daytonmiami Valley Entrepreneurs Center

The center will use its resources for information sharing and member assistance to incubate new entrepreneurs who are trying to establish a presence in the marketplace. the center will research, identify, teach and disseminate the critical…

Community Improvement

Ohio United Way

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

Philanthropy

Dayton Christian Center Inc

To promote community by nuturing children and empowering familites in a christian environment by providing childcare services and supportive services for families.

Religion

Development Research Corporation

The mission of the coalition is to recruit, expand and retain jobs in the dayton region. the coalition focuses on growing the 14-county dayton region and bolsters job creation and opportunity by supporting entrepreneurial activity,…

Community Improvement

Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy

Dayton Public Radio Inc

Using multiple technologies, member-supported discover classical 88.1 fm, 89.1 fm and 89.9 fm celebrates and advances classical music and the fine arts to enrich the lives of our listeners.

Arts & Culture

Greater Dayton Union Cooperative Initiative Inc

Greater dayton union cooperative initiative inc incubates cooperative businesses to create and retain good jobs in our region, building a local economy that works for all.

Community Improvement

The Junior League of Dayton Ohio Inc

Promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving the community through effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.

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Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement

Dayton Realtors

Dayton realtors serves its members as a resource for continuing education, a wide range of committee activities, the multiple listing service, social events, products, and publications.

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Dayton Development Coalition

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Dayton; the most unlike its peers is Home Is the Foundation. 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

76 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. 76 of the 126 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

76/76

Grantees still filing

59/76

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,366,000Arts & Culture$2,750,000Human Services$875,500Education$703,000Health$618,000Recreation & Sports$200,000Food & Nutrition$170,000

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.

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.

The Dayton FoundationOH99.9× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Mathile Family Foundation · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · Levin Family Foundation · Kettering Family Foundation · The CareSource Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Synchrony 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 Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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