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Tom E Dailey Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4k
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2021.

Arts & Culture$136kYouth Development$15kFood & Nutrition$13kRecreation & Sports$9kCivil Rights$9kHealth$7kCommunity Improvement$5kEducation$5kOther$0
02FY2021 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$37k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Franklin County Historical Society (COSI)$2,000
Main St Lorain Development$1,000
Columbus Metroplitan Club$1,000
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 (FY19–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Sisters in Shelter: $1k → 12%CirEsteem: $2k → 14%Specialized Alternatives for Families and Youth of Ohio: $2k → 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

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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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$62k · 10 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2021, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
64

Total granted

$62k
$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionCommunity 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

  • NS
    NASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIETY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $11k · revenue +0%
  • FC
    FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $9k · revenue +69%
  • LM
    LOCAL MATTERS
    2× · 2019–2020 · $6k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • FC
    Franklin Co Historical Society
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • HV
    HOCKING VALLEY SCENIC RAILWAYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +56%
  • OH
    OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +18%

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
Central States Steam Preservation Assoc
Arts & Culture
2
Ohio Railway Museum

Education is at the heart of everything we do. As custodians of a unique and historic rail collection, we hold a deep responsibility to both the past and the future to preserve the knowledge of this industry. Fueled by a passion for trains…

Arts & Culture
3
Northern Ohio Railway Museum

To collect, preserve, restore, display and operate streetcars and other electric railway equipment to educate the public about the mode of transportation that helped to build the major cities and villages of the northern Ohio region. The…

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4
Michigan State Trust for Railway Pr

To preserve the knowledge, skills and technology involved with the maintenance and operation of steam locomotives and to educate the public about the enormous impact that these machines had in the economic development of owosso and the…

Arts & Culture
5
Bricktown Model Railroaders Association

Provide a museum of local railroads

Arts & Culture
6
Northwest Ohio Railroad Preservation Inc

Preservation and restoration of railroad items to educate the public on railroad history

Arts & Culture
7
The Columbus Historical Society

Preserve the multi-cultural history of columbus and share that history with the community through a variety of educational programming

Arts & Culture
8
The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Southern Ca Chapter

Encouragement of the interest in railway history, the preservation of railway artifacts and equipment, documents and records, and to enable members to study railroad operations.

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9
Historic Orangeville Train Station Association
Arts & Culture
10
Siouxland Historical Railroad Assoc

Pursued historic preservation activities by acquiring, restoring, exhibiting and operating railroad related artifacts and interpreting their impact on regional history and development

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11
Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society Inc

The purpose of the fort wayne railroad historical society, inc is to restore and preserve historical railroad equipment and artifacts that are significant to northeast indiana. our intent is to restore and operate the equiopment and…

Arts & Culture
12
Indiana Transportation Museum Inc

Railroads transformed america with ribbons of steel, linking communities and moving people and commodities from coast to coast. the indiana transportation museum preserves this legacy by immersing guests in moving experiences. it links…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Scioto Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arcade Historical Society. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLgbtq+ Community CentersFood Pantries & AssistanceEarly Childhood Education C…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Senior Support ServicesDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Youth Development CentersProfessional Ballet Compani…Classical Music EnsemblesCommunity Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%8%5–10yr21%27%10–20yr14%17%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr20%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr21%24%10–20yr14%16%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr20%29%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,251

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

54 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. 54 of the 74 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
41/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OHIOANA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $11,000 · OtherOHIOANA LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONFranklin Co Historical Society (COSI) — $10,000 · OtherFranklin Co Historical Society (COSI)ARCADE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $5,000 · OtherARCADE HISTORICAL SOCIETYSociety of St Vincent DePaul — $5,000 · OtherSociety of St Vincent DePaulWild Goose CreativeHeritage Tours — $4,000 · OtherMaine Narrow Gauge RR and Industrial Heritage — $4,000 · OtherOhio Historical Society (Ohio History Connection) — $4,000 · OtherNATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION — $3,000 · OtherColumbus Rec and Parks Community Council — $3,000 · OtherMid-Ohio Foodbank — $3,000 · Other+25 more — $36,097 · Other+25 moreNASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $11,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIETYFRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS — $8,500 · Arts & CultureFRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI…OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureOHIO HISTORY CONNECTIONCOLUMBUS GAY MEN'S CHOIR — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS GAY MEN'S CHOIROREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATIONCOLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ART…CENTER FOR RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART INCHOOSIER HEARTLAND TROLLEY COMPANY — $3,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA RAILWAY MUSEUM INC — $3,000 · Arts & Culture+18 more — $29,500 · Arts & Culture+18 moreCOLUMBUS METROPOLITAN CLUB — $9,000 · Recreation & SportsHOCKING VALLEY SCENIC RAILWAY — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsLOST BOYZINC — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsLOCAL MATTERS — $6,000 · Food & NutritionHighland Youth Garden Inc — $2,000 · Food & NutritionLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $1,500 · Food & NutritionSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF OHIO INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesCIRCESTEEM INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesMIDSTORY — $1,500 · Human ServicesSISTERS IN SHELTER — $1,000 · Human ServicesMAIN STREET LORAIN DEVELOPMENT CORP — $5,205 · Community ImprovementEquality Ohio Education Fund — $3,000 · Civil Rights
Other$88,097Arts & Culture$80,000Recreation & Sports$16,000Food & Nutrition$9,500Human Services$6,000Community Improvement$5,205Civil Rights$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOHIOANA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $11,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $11,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOLUMBUS METROPOLITAN CLUB — $9,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS — $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL MATTERS — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAIN STREET LORAIN DEVELOPMENT CORP — $5,205 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetHOCKING VALLEY SCENIC RAILWAY — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS GAY MEN'S CHOIR — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetARCADE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetOREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEquality Ohio Education Fund — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARMONY PROJECT PRODUCTIONS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHARMONY PROJECT — $2,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetSOUTH SIDE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD MUSUEM — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFrench Creek Valley Railroad Historical Society — $2,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF OHIO INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOACH SAM'S INNER CIRCLE FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCUYAHOGA VALLEY PRESERVATION AND SCENIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHighland Youth Garden Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDES MOINES HERITAGE TRUST — $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetACTORS THEATRE OF COLUMBUS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCIRCESTEEM INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILD GOOSE CREATIVE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetColebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMID-CONTINENT RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF CICERO INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW SPRINGS ARTS COUNCIL — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSISTERS IN SHELTER — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SCIOTO SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COASTAL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATEN ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCD/B/A HISTORIC RICHMOND TOWN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART HOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMIDWEST RAILWAY PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ENGLAND STEAM CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBRADFORD OHIO RAILROAD MUSEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

L Brands FoundationColumbus FoundationGreater Columbus Arts…Ingram-White Castle F…Harry C Moores Founda…Columbus Jewish Found…Encova Foundation of …The Rail Heritage Tru…Nationwide Childrens …American Electric Pow…Cardinal Health Found…United Way of Central…
L Brands FoundationOH25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: L Brands Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Greater Columbus Arts Council · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · The Rail Heritage Trust First Option Bank Trustee · Nationwide Childrens Hospital Group Return · American Electric Power Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc

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 Tom E Dailey Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 74 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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