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Thomas B Fordham Foundation
The Thomas B.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $149,358 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $165,108 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,750 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dayton Leadership Academies | $40,000 |
| Dayton Foundation Friends of DECA Fund | $38,000 |
| ReGeneration Schools Ohio | $16,000 |
| United Preparatory Academy | $14,000 |
| IDEA Greater Cincinnati | $13,000 |
| KIPP Columbus | $13,000 |
| We Care Arts | $10,000 |
| Institute for Excellence in Education | $5,358 |
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 (FY22–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
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 21% of Thomas B Fordham 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- ACAlliance Community Schools Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $141k · revenue +86%
- USUNITED SCHOOLS4× · 2019–2023 · $85k · revenue +180%
- WOWESTCARE OHIO INC2× · 2021–2022 · $45k · revenue +256%
Funded once
- SESETON EDUCATION PARTNERSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +312%
- OCOmega Community Development Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +241%
- DEDAYTON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +11%
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 School's mission is to transform lives and our communities through the power of education
The School's mission is to transform lives and our communities through the power of education.
A primary school in central Ohio offering a learner-centered approach to education for families dedicated to cultivating joy in learning, fostering self-confidence and agency, and preparing students to be environmental stewards and…
Menlo Park Academy is a public school that develops the potential of gifted learners through an exemplary program of rewarding experiences that nurtures the whole child.
To provide high quality public education services to students that attend school from home.
Our vision is to create a culture of high expectations for behavior and academics through rigorous, research-based curricula and a focus on achievement. It is our goal that Ohio College Preparatory School scholars will attend a college…
Horizon Science Academy Toledo is a public charter school that serving grades K through 12 for children in Toledo, OH. The school is a college prep school focusing on math, science and technology education.
To promote a higher quality of life, and the realization of the full intellectual and social development of students with autism spectrum disorder. The school is structured to provide every student with autism spectrum disorder an…
North Columbus Preparatory Academy is a public, community school. We are our own school district sponsored by the St. Aloysius Orphanage (Charter School Specialists) which provides oversight and enforces academic, fiscal, and legal…
The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.
Operation of a public charter school in Livingston, AL.
To provide the opportunity for a superior elementary and middle school education based on exceptionally high curricula and standards.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Regeneration Schools Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Sciotoville Community School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Alliance Community Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds WESTCARE OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds Idea Greater Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds SCIOTOVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Omega Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds REGENERATION SCHOOLS OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds United Schools Columbus ↗
- Who funds DAYTON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds We Care Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Citizens of The World Charter Schools - Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds The Institute for Excellence in Education ↗
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: Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · The Dayton Foundation · The Berry Family Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Thomas B Fordham 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.
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.