· Private foundation
The Robert H Brethen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT SANDERS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PELOTONIA | $30,000 |
| THE BRETHEN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE DAYTON FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| SOCIETY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF CONDITIONS FOR STRAY ANIMALS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $312k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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 +75% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 3 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- DHDAYTON HISTORY6× · 2017–2023 · $618k · revenue +14%
- OHOHIO'S HOSPICE FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $251k · revenue +26%
- MVMIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2021 · $209k · revenue +108%
Funded once
- FCFIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $100k
- TSTHE SEEDLING FOUNDATION OF DAYTON OHIOone grant, 2017 · $51k · revenue -53%
- GEGOODWILL EASTERSEALS MVone grant, 2021 · $25k
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 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.
Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
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…
The relentless pursuit of optimal health for every child within our reach.
The hospice of miami county, inc. is committed to making quality hospice care available and accessible to terminally ill persons and their families, regardless of ability pay, and in a manner consistent with the highest hospice standards.…
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dayton Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Brethen Foundation. 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 36 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 56 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 DAYBREAK INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO'S HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Covenant Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL EASTER SEALS MIAMI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE SEEDLING FOUNDATION OF DAYTON OHIO ↗
- Who funds The Animal Protectorates ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FACES ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRETHEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds Society for the Improvement of Conditions for Stray Animals ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ST MARY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
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 Plus Inc · The Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · The Berry Family Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · Mathile Family Foundation · The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · Levin Family Foundation · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Virginia Conlogue 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 Robert H Brethen 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.
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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