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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 FY2024still arriving
146
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$187k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Education$2.4MArts & Culture$1.9MReligion$1.8MHealth$1.4MHuman Services$765kCommunity Improvement$626kFood & Nutrition$457kRecreation & Sports$317kOther$0
02FY2024 · 146 grants

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
$12,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$143M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 11%FAWCO FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%FAWCO FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%CURING KIDS CANCER INC: $6k → 8%CLOTHES THAT WORK: $8k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $20k → 16%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC MEDICINE: $25k → 7%PROJECT WOMAN OF OHIO: $67k → 15%PROJECT WOMAN: $38k → 15%PROJECT WOMAN: $25k → 15%CITILOOKOUT: $22k → 15%CITILOOKOUT COUNSELING AND TRAUMA RECOVERY CENTER: $20k → 15%CITILOOKOUT COUNSELING AND TRAUMA RECOVERY CENTER: $20k → 15%PROJECT WOMAN: $18k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS MIAMI VALLEY OHIO CHAPTER: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS NORTHERN MIAMI VALLEY OHIO CHAPTER: $9k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS NORTHERN MIAMI VALLEY OHIO CHAPTER: $8k → 14%CITILOOKOUT COUNSELING AND TRAUMA RECOVERY CENTER: $12k → 15%OHIO'S COMMUNITY MERCY HOSPICE: $10k → 15%ENCOMPASS CONNECTION CENTER: $9k → 15%ENCOMPASS CONNECTION CENTER: $8k → 15%ENCOMPASS CONNECTION CENTER: $8k → 15%ENCOMPASS CONNECTION CENTER: $6k → 15%OHIO'S HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $17k → 15%OHIO'S HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $16k → 15%OIC OF CLARK COUNTY INC: $5k → 15%FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVES: $10k → 15%FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVES: $7k → 15%ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $64k → 15%SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT COUNCIL ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $47k → 15%ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $19k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
CT
KY
VA
KS
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.7M · 118 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

118
37

Total granted

$9.7M
$581k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+2%

Still filing today

71%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $683k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SS
    SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $624k · revenue +66% · 31% of their budget
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF SPRINGFIELD OHIO - FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $357k · revenue +122% · 87% of their budget
  • SA
    Springfield Arts Council Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $258k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • EU
    ENON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $83k
  • WS
    Wright State University
    one grant, 2021 · $49k
  • NN
    NEW NORTH STREET AME CHURCH HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $31k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
2
Ohio Christian University

Ohio christian university (ocu) is committed to offering a complete education that develops students intellectually, professionally, and spiritually. (continued on schedule o)ocu offers degree programs designed to equip students to become…

Education
3
Clarkson University

Clarkson university is an independent, nationally recognized technological university whose faculty of teacher-scholars aspires to offer superior instruction and engage in high-quality research and scholarship in engineering, business,…

Education
4
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
5
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
6
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
7
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy
8
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
9
Springfield College

The mission of springfield college is to educate students in spirit, mind and body for leadership in service to others by building on a foundation of the college's humanics philosophy, academic excellence, service, and student success.…

Education
10
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
12
Rockford University

To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…

Education

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr13%7%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr18%13%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr17%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr13%10%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr18%9%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr17%37%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/192
the rest of the field
12%
6,188/52,558

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
127/131
Grantees still filing
78/131
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTH HAMPTON COMMUNITY CHURCH — $525,000 · OtherNORTH HAMPTON COMMUNITY CHURCHCLARK STATE COLLEGE — $309,716 · OtherCLARK STATE COLLEGESpringfield Arts Council Inc — $258,036 · OtherFELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN CHURCH INC — $230,041 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $218,625 · OtherSPRINGFIELD CATHOLIC CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $211,741 · Other+117 more — $3,917,730 · Other+117 moreSPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $623,758 · Arts & CultureSPRINGFIELD SYMP…SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART — $408,544 · Arts & CultureSPRINGFIELD MUSE…CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $222,486 · Arts & CultureCLARK COUNTY HIS…WESTCOTT HOUSE FOUNDATION — $161,672 · Arts & CultureWESTCOTT HOUSE F…SPRINGFORWARD — $61,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $110,437 · Arts & Culture+5 moreTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE — $153,020 · EducationTHE BOARD OF D…RIDGEWOOD SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — $142,255 · EducationRIDGEWOOD SCHO…CLARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $135,634 · EducationCLARK STATE CO…Deaf Community Resource Center Inc — $123,000 · EducationDeaf Community…FRIENDS OF THE HARTMAN ROCK GARDEN — $105,792 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE…THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $93,314 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES O…CLARK COUNTY LITERACY COALITION — $84,341 · EducationCLARK COUNTY L…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $67,150 · EducationMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC — $62,314 · EducationASPIRE P16 COLLABORATIVE — $52,100 · Education+22 more — $422,641 · Education+22 moreROCKING HORSE CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER — $190,146 · HealthDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $142,089 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION — $114,214 · HealthPREGNANCY RESOURCE CLINIC OF CLARK COUNTY INC — $69,477 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $36,717 · HealthNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS — $30,000 · HealthAUTUMN TRAILS STABLE — $27,750 · Health+4 more — $48,050 · HealthROTARY CLUB OF SPRINGFIELD OHIO - FOUNDATION — $356,557 · Community Improvement1159 SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $140,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION OF SPRINGFIELD-CLARK COUNTY — $52,497 · Community ImprovementTHE CONSCIOUS CONNECT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $42,500 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,100 · Community ImprovementPROJECT WOMAN OF SPRINGFIELD & CLARK COUNTY — $148,223 · Human ServicesDISTRICT COUNCIL OF SPRINGFIELD OHIO SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL — $130,075 · Human ServicesCITILOOKOUT — $73,500 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF DAYTON INC — $42,853 · Human ServicesENCOMPASS CONNECTION CENTER — $30,178 · Human ServicesTHE FAWCO FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $26,706 · Human ServicesInternational Institute of Islamic Medicine — $25,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities Southwestern Ohio — $20,000 · Human Services+6 more — $55,800 · Human ServicesOHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE DBA SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $329,313 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE — $45,000 · Food & NutritionJEFFERSON STREET OASIS COMMUNITY GARDEN — $43,500 · Food & NutritionSPRINGFIELD SOUP KITCHEN — $16,441 · Food & Nutrition
Other$5,670,889Arts & Culture$1,588,397Education$1,441,561Health$658,443Community Improvement$601,654Human Services$582,335Food & Nutrition$434,254

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $623,758 over 4y, 31% of budgetSPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART — $408,544 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF SPRINGFIELD OHIO - FOUNDATION — $356,557 over 4y, 87% of budgetOHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE DBA SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $329,313 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSpringfield Arts Council Inc — $258,036 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetCLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $222,486 over 2y, 16% of budgetSPRINGFIELD CATHOLIC CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $211,741 over 3y, 15% of budgetROCKING HORSE CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER — $190,146 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation — $182,381 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWESTCOTT HOUSE FOUNDATION — $161,672 over 4y, 10% of budgetTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE — $153,020 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT WOMAN OF SPRINGFIELD & CLARK COUNTY — $148,223 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetRIDGEWOOD SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — $142,255 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $142,089 over 4y, 0.3% of budget1159 SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $140,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCLARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $135,634 over 2y, 11% of budgetDISTRICT COUNCIL OF SPRINGFIELD OHIO SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL — $130,075 over 3y, 22% of budgetELDERLY UNITED OF SPRINGFIELD & CLARK COUNTY OHIO INC — $127,410 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDeaf Community Resource Center Inc — $123,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION — $114,214 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HARTMAN ROCK GARDEN — $105,792 over 2y, 44% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CLARK CHAMPAIGN & MADISON COUNTIES INC — $98,274 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetTAC INDUSTRIES INC — $97,727 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $93,314 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLARK COUNTY LITERACY COALITION — $84,341 over 4y, 14% of budgetWELLSPRING — $81,418 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD — $77,983 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCITILOOKOUT — $73,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetGLEN HELEN ASSOCIATION — $69,580 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPREGNANCY RESOURCE CLINIC OF CLARK COUNTY INC — $69,477 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $67,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERED INC — $65,512 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC — $62,314 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGFORWARD — $61,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetON-THE-RISE — $53,027 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION OF SPRINGFIELD-CLARK COUNTY — $52,497 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetASPIRE P16 COLLABORATIVE — $52,100 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetTHE BRAXTON MILLER FOUNDATION — $49,500 over 3y, 25% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Greater Dayton Inc — $47,981 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetRIDING CENTRE ASSOCIATION — $47,739 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetSPRINGFIELD CITY YOUTH MISSION — $47,192 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCedarville University — $44,525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTECUMSEH LAND PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION — $44,240 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetJEFFERSON STREET OASIS COMMUNITY GARDEN — $43,500 over 4y, 23% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON — $43,300 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHOSPICE OF DAYTON INC — $42,853 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSCIOUS CONNECT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $42,500 over 3y, 3.9% of budget
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.

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.

Community Hospital Health Services FoundationOH86.3× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University11% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
42report 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, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 201 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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