· Private foundation
The Houtz Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $787k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAYTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY DAYTON MUSEUM OF | $250,000 |
| FOODBANK INC | $250,000 |
| DAYTON HISTORY | $150,000 |
| SOCIETY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF CONDITIONS FOR STRA | $112,000 |
| EMERGE RECOVERY & TRADES INITIATIVE | $100,000 |
| UNITED REHABILITATION SERVICES OF GREATER DAYTON | $100,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $75,000 |
| SERVIAS MINISTRIES INC | $50,000 |
| SOPHIE KERRIGAN FOR THE LOVE OF ANIMALS | $50,000 |
| ST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $50,000 |
| TBE | $50,000 |
| HANNAHS TREASURE CHEST | $50,000 |
| THERAPEUTIC RIDING INSTITUTE INC | $45,000 |
| DAYTON DIAPER DEPOT | $25,000 |
| CLOTHES THAT WORK | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
- SFSociety for the Improvement of Conditions for Stray Animals7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +100%
- TFTHE FOODBANK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +40%
- BPBRIGID'S PATH INC4× · 2020–2023 · $300k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- TDTHE DAYTON ART INSTITUTEone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -18%
- EREMERGE RECOVERY SUPPORT SERVICES INCone grant, 2021 · $50k
- ENELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +79%
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.
The hospice of dayton, inc. is committed to making quality hospice care available and accessible to terminally ill persons and their families, regardless of ability to pay, and in a manner consistent with the highest hospice standards. our…
To promote community by nuturing children and empowering familites in a christian environment by providing childcare services and supportive services for families.
Our mission is to create a more compassionate community for cats in dayton, oh.
We advance the health, welfare and safety of animals and people.
The mission of the little exchange foundation is to maximize donations for its charitable endeavors, to oversee the strategic management of the little exchange retail establishment, and to provide an environment that promotes…
We meet the immediate needs of animals in our community through individualized care, life saving solutions, and temporary shelter en-route to a safe, compatible home. we envision a community where all animals are valued, protected and have…
To provide quality home health services to infants, children, and young adults. the care provided will be coordinated, comprehensive, and family centered to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the children and their…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Social services for low-income families.
To ensure quality care and treatment of horses through intervention, education and outreach.
YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Daybreak saves young lives by demonstrating love and bringing hope for their future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dayton Children's Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Therapeutic Riding Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 26 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
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 DAYTON HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Society for the Improvement of Conditions for Stray Animals ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGID'S PATH INC ↗
- Who funds SOPHIE KERRIGAN FOR THE LOVE OF ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds HANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SERVIAS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Emerge Recovery and Trades Initiative ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC RIDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNITED REHABILITATION SERVICES OF GREATER DAYTON ↗
- Who funds DAYTON DIAPER DEPOT ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DIABETES ASSOCIATION OF THE DAYTON AREA ↗
- Who funds FINAL SALUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds OUR FARM SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES THAT WORK ↗
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: The Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Mathile Family Foundation · The Berry Family Foundation · The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation · The Fred and Alice Wallace Charitable Memorial Foundation · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · Gerald M & Carole a Miller Family Foundation · Levin Family 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 Houtz Family Foundation Inc 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.
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.