· Community foundation
The Springfield Foundation
Our mission is to raise, strengthen, and distribute permanent charitable funds to improve the quality of life for residents of clark county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k45 grants · $315k
- $10k–50k84 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLARK COUNTY PARK DISTRICT | $186,500 |
| CLARK STATE COLLEGE | $181,685 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $169,161 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF SPRINGFIELD | $144,833 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $139,890 |
| ROCKING HORSE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $112,041 |
| SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $108,085 |
| SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART | $105,292 |
| SPRINGFIELD CATHOLIC CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $81,691 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HARTMAN ROCK GARDEN | $81,550 |
| DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $69,809 |
| PROJECT WOMAN OF OHIO | $67,191 |
| CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $63,093 |
| WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY | $59,300 |
| FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $59,208 |
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 (FY21–24, $562k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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 +17% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
118 repeat relationships — 96 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 44 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $683k 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
- SSSPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2024 · $624k · revenue +66% · 31% of their budget
- RCROTARY CLUB OF SPRINGFIELD OHIO - FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $357k · revenue +122% · 87% of their budget
- SASpringfield Arts Council Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $258k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- EUENON UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $83k
- WSWright State Universityone grant, 2021 · $49k
- NNNEW NORTH STREET AME CHURCH HOUSING DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2022 · $31k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Links Foundation Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is International Institute of Islamic Medicine. 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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
131 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. 131 of the 201 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SPRINGFIELD OHIO - FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE DBA SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Springfield Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD CATHOLIC CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKING HORSE CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds WESTCOTT HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT WOMAN OF SPRINGFIELD & CLARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RIDGEWOOD SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 1159 SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CLARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT COUNCIL OF SPRINGFIELD OHIO SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds ELDERLY UNITED OF SPRINGFIELD & CLARK COUNTY OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds Deaf Community Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HARTMAN ROCK GARDEN ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CLARK CHAMPAIGN & MADISON COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds TAC INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY LITERACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD ↗
- Who funds CITILOOKOUT ↗
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: Community Hospital Health Services Foundation · Della Selsor Tr Uw · Harry and Violet Turner 95 Charitable Trust · The Dayton Foundation · The United Way of Clark Champaign & Madison Counties Inc · Dayton Foundation Depository · Wilson Sheehan Foundation · Crabill Family Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Mathile Family Foundation · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Carleton F and Ruth T Davidson Trust
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 Springfield 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
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.