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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 FY2025still arriving
124
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$294k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$2.4MArts & Culture$1.9MReligion$1.8MHealth$1.4MHuman Services$765kCommunity Improvement$626kFood & Nutrition$457kRecreation & Sports$317kOther$0
02FY2025 · 124 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 124 grants below total $3,205,787, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,628,501 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $422,714 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $248k
  • $10k–50k69 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $294k
$12,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$161M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPRINGFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$293,971
FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN CHURCH$148,394
CLARK STATE COLLEGE$126,379
SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$110,715
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$109,489
ROCKING HORSE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$105,152
SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART$104,274
NORTH HAMPTON COMMUNITY CHURCH$100,550
SPRINGFIELD ARTS COUNCIL$71,619
CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$70,875
PROJECT WOMAN OF OHIO$68,144
WESTCOTT HOUSE FOUNDATION$65,999
SPRINGFIELD CATHOLIC CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION$60,678
HIGH STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$58,505
SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT COUNCIL ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY$57,560
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $771k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAWCO FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%FAWCO FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%CURING KIDS CANCER INC: $6k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $20k → 16%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC MEDICINE: $25k → 7%PROJECT WOMAN OF OHIO: $68k → 15%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 MIAMI VALLEY OHIO CHAPTER: $8k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS NORTHERN MIAMI VALLEY OHIO CHAPTER: $8k → 14%CITILOOKOUT COUNSELING AND TRAUMA RECOVERY CENTER: $12k → 15%CITILOOKOUT COUNSELING AND TRAUMA RECOVERY CENTER: $10k → 15%CLOTHES THAT WORK: $8k → 14%OHIO'S COMMUNITY MERCY HOSPICE: $10k → 15%CLOTHES THAT WORK: $8k → 14%ENCOMPASS CONNECTION CENTER: $10k → 15%ENCOMPASS CONNECTION CENTER: $9k → 15%ENCOMPASS CONNECTION CENTER: $8k → 15%ENCOMPASS CONNECTION CENTER: $8k → 15%ENCOMPASS CONNECTION CENTER: $6k → 15%OIC OF CLARK COUNTY INC: $20k → 15%OIC OF CLARK COUNTY INC: $5k → 15%FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVES: $10k → 15%FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVES: $7k → 15%FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVES: $7k → 15%OHIO'S HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $22k → 15%OHIO'S HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $17k → 15%OHIO'S HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $16k → 15%ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $64k → 15%SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT COUNCIL ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $58k → 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
CT
KY
VA
KS
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 139 repeat orgs$986k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

139 repeat relationships: 105 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

139
60

Total granted

$13M
$837k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+3%

Still filing today

69%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    5× · 2021–2025 · $734k · revenue +66% · 31% of their budget
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF SPRINGFIELD OHIO - FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $412k · revenue +122% · 87% of their budget
  • SA
    Springfield Arts Council Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $330k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • EU
    ENON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $83k
  • PT
    PIKE TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • WS
    Wright State University
    one grant, 2021 · $49k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
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
Philanthropy Ohio

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

Philanthropy
4
Ohio Insurance Institute

Representation of the ohio property & casualty insurance industry.

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5
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
6
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
7
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

—
8
Syracuse University

Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…

Education
9
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
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.

—
12
Drake University

See schedule o.drake's mission is to provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. the drake experience is distinguished…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Links Foundation Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

140 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 140 of the 216 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
136/140
Grantees still filing
84/140
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH HAMPTON COMMUNITY CHURCH: $625,550 · OtherNORTH HAMPTON COMMUNITY CHURCHCLARK STATE COLLEGE: $436,095 · OtherCLARK STATE COLLEGESpringfield City Schools: $379,039 · OtherFELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN CHURCH INC: $378,435 · OtherSpringfield Arts Council Inc: $329,655 · OtherSPRINGFIELD CATHOLIC CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $272,419 · Other+120 more: $5,027,452 · Other+120 moreSPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $734,473 · Arts & CultureSPRINGFIELD SYMP…SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART: $512,818 · Arts & CultureSPRINGFIELD MUSE…CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $258,861 · Arts & CultureCLARK COUNTY HIS…WESTCOTT HOUSE FOUNDATION: $227,671 · Arts & CultureWESTCOTT HOUSE F…GAMMON HOUSE INC: $94,128 · Arts & CultureSPRINGFIELD HISTORIC LANDMARK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $86,300 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $103,138 · Arts & CultureTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE: $160,703 · EducationTHE BOARD OF …Deaf Community Resource Center Inc: $158,000 · EducationDeaf Communit…RIDGEWOOD SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $152,975 · EducationRIDGEWOOD SCH…CLARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $135,634 · EducationCLARK STATE C…FRIENDS OF THE HARTMAN ROCK GARDEN: $124,542 · EducationFRIENDS OF TH…THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $105,072 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES …CLARK COUNTY LITERACY COALITION: $98,041 · EducationCLARK COUNTY …Cedarville University: $94,525 · EducationCedarville Un…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $87,150 · EducationMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $74,072 · EducationASPIRE P16 COLLABORATIVE: $60,100 · Education+18 more: $439,649 · Education+18 moreROCKING HORSE CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER: $295,298 · HealthDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $189,339 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION: $135,904 · HealthPREGNANCY RESOURCE CLINIC OF CLARK COUNTY INC: $82,027 · HealthAUTUMN TRAILS STABLE: $43,250 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $36,717 · HealthNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $30,000 · Health+4 more: $59,700 · HealthPROJECT WOMAN OF SPRINGFIELD & CLARK COUNTY: $216,367 · Human ServicesDISTRICT COUNCIL OF SPRINGFIELD OHIO SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $187,635 · Human ServicesCITILOOKOUT: $83,500 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF DAYTON INC: $64,452 · Human ServicesENCOMPASS CONNECTION CENTER: $39,678 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $34,676 · Human ServicesTHE FAWCO FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human Services+8 more: $135,800 · Human ServicesROTARY CLUB OF SPRINGFIELD OHIO - FOUNDATION: $412,101 · Community Improvement1159 SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $140,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION OF SPRINGFIELD-CLARK COUNTY: $73,783 · Community ImprovementTHE CONSCIOUS CONNECT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,500 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,100 · Community ImprovementOHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE DBA SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $438,802 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $60,000 · Food & NutritionJEFFERSON STREET OASIS COMMUNITY GARDEN: $59,150 · Food & NutritionSPRINGFIELD SOUP KITCHEN: $32,784 · Food & Nutrition
Other$7,448,645Arts & Culture$2,017,389Education$1,690,463Health$872,235Human Services$792,108Community Improvement$686,484Food & Nutrition$590,736

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $734,473 over 5y, 31% of budgetSPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART: $512,818 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetOHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE DBA SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $438,802 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF SPRINGFIELD OHIO - FOUNDATION: $412,101 over 5y, 87% of budgetSpringfield Arts Council Inc: $329,655 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetROCKING HORSE CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER: $295,298 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSPRINGFIELD CATHOLIC CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $272,419 over 4y, 15% of budgetCLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $258,861 over 3y, 16% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $234,548 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWESTCOTT HOUSE FOUNDATION: $227,671 over 5y, 10% of budgetPROJECT WOMAN OF SPRINGFIELD & CLARK COUNTY: $216,367 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $189,339 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDISTRICT COUNCIL OF SPRINGFIELD OHIO SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $187,635 over 4y, 22% of budgetTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE: $160,703 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDeaf Community Resource Center Inc: $158,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetRIDGEWOOD SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $152,975 over 5y, 4.6% of budget1159 SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $140,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION: $135,904 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCLARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $135,634 over 2y, 11% of budgetELDERLY UNITED OF SPRINGFIELD & CLARK COUNTY OHIO INC: $132,854 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HARTMAN ROCK GARDEN: $124,542 over 3y, 44% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CLARK CHAMPAIGN & MADISON COUNTIES INC: $116,134 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTAC INDUSTRIES INC: $112,777 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $105,072 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLARK COUNTY LITERACY COALITION: $98,041 over 5y, 14% of budgetSHELTERED INC: $95,475 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCedarville University: $94,525 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD: $94,299 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetGAMMON HOUSE INC: $94,128 over 5y, 73% of budgetGLEN HELEN ASSOCIATION: $92,644 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $87,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTECUMSEH LAND PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $86,514 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSPRINGFIELD HISTORIC LANDMARK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $86,300 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetON-THE-RISE: $85,027 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetCITILOOKOUT: $83,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetPREGNANCY RESOURCE CLINIC OF CLARK COUNTY INC: $82,027 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetWELLSPRING: $81,418 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $74,072 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION OF SPRINGFIELD-CLARK COUNTY: $73,783 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NEHEMIAH FOUNDATION OF SPRINGFIELD/CLARK COUNTY: $65,698 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF CLARK COUNTY: $65,518 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetHOSPICE OF DAYTON INC: $64,452 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFORWARD: $61,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetASPIRE P16 COLLABORATIVE: $60,100 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRAXTON MILLER FOUNDATION: $59,500 over 4y, 25% of budgetJEFFERSON STREET OASIS COMMUNITY GARDEN: $59,150 over 5y, 23% of budgetQUEST ADULT SERVICES INC: $59,000 over 3y, 98% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds OHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE DBA SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SPRINGFIELD OHIO - FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Springfield Arts Council Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROCKING HORSE CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGFIELD CATHOLIC CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WESTCOTT HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT WOMAN OF SPRINGFIELD & CLARK COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DISTRICT COUNCIL OF SPRINGFIELD OHIO SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Deaf Community Resource Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds RIDGEWOOD SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds 1159 SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION ↗
  • Who funds CLARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ELDERLY UNITED OF SPRINGFIELD & CLARK COUNTY OHIO INC ↗
  • 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 SHELTERED INC ↗
  • Who funds Cedarville University ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD ↗
  • Who funds GAMMON HOUSE INC ↗

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.

Community Hospital He…Della Selsor Tr UwHarry and Violet Turn…The Dayton FoundationThe United Way of Cla…Dayton Foundation Dep…Wilson Sheehan Founda…Crabill Family Founda…Assurant FoundationMathile Family Founda…The United Way of the…Carleton F and Ruth T…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Springfield Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Springfield Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 216 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home