How much does University of Dayton give?

University of Dayton reported 9 itemized grants totaling $758,673, out of $257,983,584 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does University of Dayton fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (33%), Recreation & Sports (17%), Food & Nutrition (16%).

Who are University of Dayton's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arcade Innovation Hub LLC ($2.3M), Dayton Boat Club ($650k), Dayton Contemporary Dance Company ($514k).

Does University of Dayton fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as University of Dayton?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dayton Foundation, Mathile Family Foundation, Dayton Foundation Depository.

Where is University of Dayton based?

University of Dayton is based in OH.

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Ohio · Public charity

University of Dayton

The University of Dayton is a top-tier independent, catholic research educational institution founded in 1850. The primary exempt purpose is providing post secondary education through undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and continuing education programs.

$258M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 9
Itemized grants FY2025: 17
Organizations funded FY2024: 47%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $759k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $40,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $300,000
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 21; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $2.3B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations University of Dayton funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $583k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	9	$759k	11%
FY2024	17	$907k	47%
FY2023	21	$1.0M	48%
FY2022	21	$622k	67%
FY2021	7	$1.3M	43%
FY2020	10	$168k	30%
FY2019	14	$220k	43%
FY2018	11	$323k	55%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$2.4MRecreation & Sports$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.2MArts & Culture$666kInternational$456kHealth$263kPhilanthropy$208kHuman Services$185kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Arcade Innovation Hub LLC	$2,348,143	5	76%
Dayton Boat Club	$650,000	2	36%
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company	$513,500	7	7%
Determined to Develop	$450,027	1	85%
Ncr Employees Benefit Association	$400,000	2	n/a
Bike Miami Valley Ohio	$205,500	2	30%
Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation	$200,000	2	2%
The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area	$158,758	9	1%
Marianist Province of the United States Society of Mary	$82,630	4	n/a
Nami Ohio	$80,000	2	1%

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All grantees of University of Dayton by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Arcade Innovation Hub LLC	$2,348,143	5	76%
Dayton Boat Club	$650,000	2	36%
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company	$513,500	7	7%
Determined to Develop	$450,027	1	85%
Ncr Employees Benefit Association	$400,000	2	n/a
Bike Miami Valley Ohio	$205,500	2	30%
Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation	$200,000	2	2%
The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area	$158,758	9	1%
Marianist Province of the United States Society of Mary	$82,630	4	n/a
Nami Ohio	$80,000	2	1%
Omega Community Development Corporation	$57,000	5	0%
Daybreak Inc	$51,775	1	1%
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation	$37,000	5	13%
Air Camp Inc	$35,000	3	2%
YWCA Dayton	$33,687	1	1%
Dayton Children's Hospital Foundation	$31,060	4	0%
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)	$30,000	3	0%
Advocates for Basic Legal Equality Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Good Neighbor House	$26,506	1	1%
Goodwill Easter Seals Miami Valley	$25,000	1	0%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & In	$24,456	2	0%
Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley	$22,016	4	0%
Crayons to Classrooms	$21,724	1	1%
Dayton Performing Arts Alliance	$21,100	3	0%
Montgomery County Human Services	$20,000	1	n/a
Neighborhoods for Daytons Future	$20,000	1	n/a
Raisestem	$20,000	2	n/a
The National Conference for Community and Justice of Greater Dayton	$20,000	4	3%
A Special Wish Foundation Inc of Southwest Ohio	$17,402	2	1%
Citizens for Sinclair	$15,000	2	n/a
Mission of Mary Cooperative	$13,150	2	6%
Contemporary Dayton Inc	$12,500	2	1%
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce	$11,000	1	0%
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce Education & Public Improvement Fdtn	$10,000	1	1%
Expressions of Life Inc	$10,000	2	7%
Learn to Earn Dayton	$10,000	1	0%
Reach Out of Montgomery County	$10,000	1	1%
Clifton Crafthouse Co-Op	$10,000	1	n/a
B-W Greenway Community Land Trust	$10,000	1	9%
Access to Excess	$10,000	1	2%
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People	$10,000	1	n/a
Marianist Lay Community of North America	$10,000	1	n/a
Strategic Ohio Council for Higher Education	$10,000	2	0%
Chaminade University of Honolulu	$8,966	1	0%
Homefull	$7,500	1	0%
K12 Gallery for Young People	$7,000	1	1%
Re-Volv	$6,250	1	1%
Think Tank Inc	$5,500	1	1%
Council on Legal Education Opportunity Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Ardr Allies	$5,000	1	n/a
Hope House Rescue Mission Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Westminster Presbyterian Church	$5,000	1	n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Dayton	$5,000	1	0%
Greater Edgemont Community Coalition	$5,000	1	n/a
Dayton Fellowship Club Incorporated	$5,000	1	n/a
St Vincent de Paul Social Services Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Children's Defense Fund	$5,000	1	n/a
Sunlight Village Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Have A Gay Day Inc	$5,000	1	2%
The Brunner Literacy Center	$5,000	1	1%
Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States	$5,000	1	n/a
Central State University	$5,000	1	n/a
Miami Conservancy District	$5,000	1	n/a
East Dayton Neighborhood Development Corporation	$5,000	1	n/a

University of Dayton supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 46.

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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.

The Dayton FoundationOH68.8× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dayton Foundation · Mathile Family Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · Miami Valley Hospital · The CareSource Foundation · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · WPCU Sunshine Community Fund · Frank M Tait Foundation · Dayton Children's Hospital

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.

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About University of Dayton

How much does University of Dayton give?: University of Dayton reported 9 itemized grants totaling $758,673, out of $257,983,584 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does University of Dayton fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (33%), Recreation & Sports (17%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
Who are University of Dayton's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arcade Innovation Hub LLC ($2.3M), Dayton Boat Club ($650k), Dayton Contemporary Dance Company ($514k).
Does University of Dayton fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as University of Dayton?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dayton Foundation, Mathile Family Foundation, Dayton Foundation Depository.
Where is University of Dayton based?: University of Dayton is based in OH.