· Community foundation
The Troy Foundation
To improve the quality of life for our community by connecting donors to meaningful causes for a better tomorrow.
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.
The 141 grants below total $9,146,124 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,993,458 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $847,334 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $267k
- $10k–50k73 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k29 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+5 grants · $4.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,438,051 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO | $600,250 |
| TROY HISTORIC PRESERVATION ALLIANCE | $492,912 |
| Individual grant recipient | $318,838 |
| UVMC FOUNDATION | $318,354 |
| LINCOLN COMMUNITY CENTER | $234,980 |
| BRUKNER NATURE CENTER | $185,279 |
| WACO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $181,367 |
| MUSCO SPORTS LIGHTING LLC | $180,975 |
| FIRST UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $162,753 |
| Individual grant recipient | $156,520 |
| MIDWEST MAINTENANCE INC | $132,000 |
| TICHARDS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CH | $125,384 |
| FISH OF TROY INC | $120,604 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MIAMI AND S | $115,200 |
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 (FY17–24, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of The Troy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 91% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
159 repeat relationships — 105 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 26 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M 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
- LCLINCOLN COMMUNITY CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +151% · 96% of their budget
- MCMiami County YMCA8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +9% · 38% of their budget
- PRPINK RIBBON GOOD INC7× · 2017–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +438%
Funded once
- TRTROY REINVESTMENT FUNDone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue -95% · 100% of their budget
- PNPRIORITY NEEDS FUND OF THE TROY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $385k
- FFFAUST FULKER & SCHLEMMER REAL ESTATE TRUST ACCOUNTone grant, 2021 · $261k
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.
Thomas university is an independent, not for profit, institution of higher education with undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for successful careers and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing and complex world.
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…
Educate students by linking knowledge to professional practice.
The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
Enhance the patient and family experience at miami valley hospital by raising community support for cutting-edge programs and services which help build healthy communities.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
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…
We, mount carmel and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mount carmel college of nursing is a member of mount carmel and trinity health.
To improve the human condition through excellence in patient care and medical discovery.
We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Vincent Depaul Society District Council of Dayton Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Josephs Catholic Worker House. 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 33 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 — 1% 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.
181 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. 181 of the 334 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 LINCOLN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WACO Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Miami County YMCA ↗
- Who funds PINK RIBBON GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MIAMI COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BRUKNER NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ARBOGAST PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds UVMC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TROY REINVESTMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTH PARTNERS FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HOPE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ABUSE SHELTER OF MIAMI COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OVERFIELD EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE TROY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIAMI COUNTY DENTAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Dayton Performing Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds TROY HISTORIC PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds The Future Begins Today ↗
- Who funds FISH INC OF TROY OH ↗
- Who funds OVERFIELD TAVERN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CLEAR CREEK FARM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIAMI COUNTY OHIO ↗
- Who funds VETERANS MUSEUM MIAMI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds DAYTON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY 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: The Dayton Foundation · The Paul G Duke Foundation · United Way of Miami County Ohio · Dayton Foundation Depository · Upper Valley Medical Center · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Mathile Family Foundation · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · Miami Valley Hospital · Piqua Community Foundation · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Hartzell Norris Charitable 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 Troy 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.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Troy Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Troy Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.