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The Gala of Hope Foundation Inc

The gala of hope foundation is a nonprofit that raises funds and provides grants to advance cancer diagnosis and treatment, support patients and families, improve access to care, and fund local research and patient advocacy efforts.

$781k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$220k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Health$1.9MPhilanthropy$215kEducation$53kHousing & Shelter$8kHuman Services$3k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $748,176, the rows itemized in this filing. The $781,110 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $32,934 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.
$215,794
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION CLARK & CHAMPAIGN COUNTIES$220,183
KETTERING HEALTH FOUNDATION$215,794
DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$198,449
MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$113,750
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%CRUSET FAMILY: $3k → 9%MAPLE TREE CANCER ALLIANCE: $82k → 9%PINK RIBBON GIRLS: $77k → 10%TY'S CHRISTMAS WISH: $1k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DAYTON: $27k → 12%GRANDVIEW FOUNDATION: $18k → 14%MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION CLARK & CHAMPAIGN COUNTIES: $220k → 15%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $46k → 15%PINK RIBBON GIRLS: $45k → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DAYTON: $27k → 12%DAYTON VETERANS AFFAIRS RESEARCH & EDUCATION: $30k → 14%MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $201k → 15%PINK RIBBON GIRLS: $41k → 10%KETTERING HEALTH FOUNDATION: $216k → 14%MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION CLARK & CHAMPAIGN COUNTIES: $125k → 15%KETTERING HEALTH FOUNDATION: $19k → 14%MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION CLARK & CHAMPAIGN COUNTIES: $101k → 15%LIVING WITH LYMPHEDEMA: $23k → 14%MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION CLARK & CHAMPAIGN COUNTIES: $24k → 15%MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $177k → 14%MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $177k → 14%MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $114k → 14%CRAUN FAMILY: $5k → 14%MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $16k → 14%TRICIA FERGUSON: $3k → 14%MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $198k → 14%DAYTON CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $82k → 14%DAYTON CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $82k → 14%DAYTON CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%MAPLE TREE CANCER ALLIANCE: $40k → 14%DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 14%DAYTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $20k → 14%MAPLE TREE CANCER ALLIANCE: $2k → 14%ITASC: $58k → 14%DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOL: $4k → 14%PINK RIBBON GOOD: $50k → 14%DAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOL: $4k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 31% of The Gala of Hope Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 76%.

The Gala of Hope Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 10 repeat orgs$387k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +108% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
10

Total granted

$2.5M
$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+108%
+6%

Still filing today

90%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationReligionOther
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

  • BS
    Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation
    5× · 2020–2025 · $671k · revenue +51%
  • MV
    MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $488k · revenue +108%
  • KM
    KETTERING MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $485k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • I
    ITASC
    one grant, 2023 · $58k
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $46k · revenue +6%
  • DV
    DAYTON VETERANS AFFAIRS RESEARCH & EDUCATION
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +10%
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.

1
Dayton Osteopathic Hospital

Our mission is to live god's love by promoting and restoring health.

Health
2
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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3
Atrium Medical Center Foundation

To develop charitable gifts and resources dedicated to building healthier communities in southwest ohio.

Health
4
Marietta Health Foundation

The memorial health foundation encourages philanthropic support of marietta memorial hospital and related services. activities include raising funds, fund stewardship and making grants to improve health care in the mid-ohio valley.

Health
5
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
6
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
8
Fidelity Health Care

We care. we teach. we innovate. we serve.

Health
9
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
10
Miami Valley Hospital

We care. we teach. we innovate. we serve.

Health
11
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Physicians Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Atrium Medical Center

We care. we teach. we innovate. we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dayton Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Maple Tree Cancer Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $488,200 · HealthMIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONKETTERING MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $484,544 · HealthKETTERING MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONKETTERING MEDICAL CENTER: $250,000 · HealthKETTERING MEDICAL CENTERPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $213,336 · HealthPINK RIBBON GOOD INCDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $198,449 · HealthDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONMAPLE TREE CANCER ALLIANCE: $124,628 · HealthMAPLE TREE CANCER ALLIANCE+4 more: $89,120 · HealthBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $671,287 · ReligionBon Secours Mercy Health …DAYTON CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $214,803 · OtherDAYTON CHILDR…ITASC: $58,200 · OtherITASCRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON: $53,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONA…Individual grant recipient: $23,000 · OtherIndividual gr…+4 more: $12,153 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $46,000 · EducationDAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC: $7,310 · Education
Health$1,848,277Religion$671,287Other$361,156Education$53,310

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $671,287 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $488,200 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetKETTERING MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $484,544 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetKETTERING MEDICAL CENTER: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $213,336 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $198,449 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMAPLE TREE CANCER ALLIANCE: $124,628 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON: $53,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $46,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAYTON VETERANS AFFAIRS RESEARCH & EDUCATION: $30,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetGrandview Foundation: $18,120 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDAYTON REGIONAL STEM SCHOOLS INC: $7,310 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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…The Dayton FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Dayton Foundation DepositoryOH15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dayton Foundation Depository · The Dayton Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Gala of Hope Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gala of Hope Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.

    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 21 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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