Ohio · 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.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 124
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 140
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $293,971
- Organizations funded a year
- 72 to 140
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $161M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Springfield Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 120 | $3.2M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 140 | $3.6M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $2.0M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 108 | $2.8M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 116 | $2.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springfield Symphony Orchestra Association | $734,473 | 5 | 31% |
| North Hampton Community Church | $625,550 | 3 | n/a |
| Springfield Museum of Art | $512,818 | 5 | 9% |
| Ohio Tri County Food Alliance Dba Second Harvest Food Bank | $438,802 | 5 | 1% |
| Clark State College | $436,095 | 5 | n/a |
| Rotary Club of Springfield Ohio - Foundation | $412,101 | 5 | 87% |
| Springfield City Schools | $379,039 | 5 | n/a |
| Fellowship Christian Church Inc | $378,435 | 5 | n/a |
| Springfield Arts Council Inc | $329,655 | 5 | 9% |
| Rocking Horse Children's Health Center | $295,298 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 204 grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($179k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Springfield Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 132 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Springfield Foundation
- How much does The Springfield Foundation give?
- The Springfield Foundation reported 124 itemized grants totaling $3,205,787, out of $3,628,501 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 72 and 140 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Springfield Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Arts & Culture (18%), Religion (17%).
- Who are The Springfield Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Springfield Symphony Orchestra Association ($734k), North Hampton Community Church ($626k), Springfield Museum of Art ($513k).
- Does The Springfield Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Springfield Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Hospital Health Services Foundation, Della Selsor Tr Uw, Harry and Violet Turner 95 Charitable Trust.
- Where is The Springfield Foundation based?
- The Springfield Foundation is based in OH.
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