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University of Dayton

The University of Dayton is a top-tier independent, catholic research educational institution founded in 1850.

$258M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$2.4MRecreation & Sports$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.2MArts & Culture$666kInternational$456kHealth$263kPhilanthropy$208kHuman Services$185kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $758,673 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $257,983,584 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $257,224,911 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $92k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $352k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAYTON BOAT CLUB$300,000
ARCADE INNOVATION HUB INNOVATION HUB$200,000
OHIO SUICIDE PREVENTION FOUNDATION$100,000
DAYBREAK INC$51,775
NAMI OHIO$40,000
MARIANIST PROVINCE OF THE UNITED STATES$33,880
UNITED WAY OF GREATER DAYTON AREA$18,000
DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FOUNDATION$9,000
MAKE-A-WISH OF OH KY & IN INC$6,018
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 (FY20–25, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOPE HOUSE RESCUE MISSION INC: $5k → 12%THINK TANK INC: $6k → 15%OMEGA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15k → 14%OMEGA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $12k → 14%OMEGA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 14%OMEGA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 14%OMEGA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 14%EXPRESSIONS OF LIFE INC: $5k → 14%EXPRESSIONS OF LIFE INC: $5k → 14%HOMEFULL: $8k → 14%DAYBREAK INC: $52k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE: $27k → 14%ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $5k → 14%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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 18% of University of Dayton’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, 98% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

University of Daytonlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.5% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.0M · 26 repeat orgs$855k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
37

Total granted

$5.0M
$803k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+12%

Still filing today

85%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsInternationalOther

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

  • AI
    ARCADE INNOVATION HUB LLC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +31% · 76% of their budget
  • DC
    DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $514k · revenue +21%
  • NO
    NAMI OHIO
    2× · 2024–2025 · $80k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • DT
    DETERMINED TO DEVELOP
    one grant, 2017 · $450k · revenue -49% · 85% of their budget
  • YD
    YWCA Dayton
    one grant, 2024 · $34k · revenue 0%
  • GN
    GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $27k · revenue +30%

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.

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Greater Dayton Union Cooperative Initiative Inc

Greater dayton union cooperative initiative inc incubates cooperative businesses to create and retain good jobs in our region, building a local economy that works for all.

Community Improvement
2
Dayton Development Coalition

The mission of the coalition is to recruit, expand and retain jobs in the dayton region. the coalition focuses on growing the 14-county dayton region and bolsters job creation and opportunity by supporting entrepreneurial activity,…

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3
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement
4
Ohio Debate Commission Inc

Our mission is to foster fair and substantive debates that encourage participation in our democracy, and our vision is of a stronger Ohio, with well informed voters and highly qualified public servants, candidates, and elected officials.

Civil Rights
5
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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6
Daytonmiami Valley Entrepreneurs Center

The center will use its resources for information sharing and member assistance to incubate new entrepreneurs who are trying to establish a presence in the marketplace. the center will research, identify, teach and disseminate the critical…

Community Improvement
7
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
8
Dayton Christian Center Inc

To promote community by nuturing children and empowering familites in a christian environment by providing childcare services and supportive services for families.

Religion
9
Dayton Realtors

Dayton realtors serves its members as a resource for continuing education, a wide range of committee activities, the multiple listing service, social events, products, and publications.

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10
The Democracy Collaborative Foundation Inc

See schedule othe democracy collaborative was established in 2000 to advance understanding of democracy for the 21st century and to promote emerging strategies and innovations in community development that enhance democratic life. in…

Education
11
The Dayton Art Institute

The dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.

Arts & Culture
12
Philanthropy Ohio

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

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Vincent De Paul Social Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Raisestem. 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 backsteadyCharter and Preparatory Sch…Family Philanthropic Founda…Member Recreation ClubsFaith-Based Community Servi…Youth and Family ServicesYouth Competitive SwimmingOhio Civic Advocacy Organiz…Disability Services & Suppo…Community Grantmaking Found…Faith-Based Social ServicesRegional Business Developme…Community Service ClubsRegional Arts & Performance…
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 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr13%9%5–10yr17%25%10–20yr14%19%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr23%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%36%5–10yr17%11%10–20yr14%29%20–35yr15%15%35–55yr23%9%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/66
the rest of the field
12%
1,604/13,236

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.

05the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 66 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
30/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARCADE INNOVATION HUB LLC — $2,348,143 · EducationARCADE INNOVATION HUB LLC+6 more — $60,690 · EducationGREENE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,070,545 · PhilanthropyGREENE COUNTY COMMUN…THE DAYTON FOUNDATION — $215,700 · PhilanthropyTHE DAYTON FOUNDATIO…NCR EMPLOYEES BENEFIT ASSOCIATION — $400,000 · OtherNCR EMPLOYEES BENEFIT…THE UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER DAYTON AREA — $158,758 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY OF THE…MARIANIST PROVINCE OF THE UNITED STATES SOCIETY OF MARY — $82,630 · OtherMARIANIST PROVINCE OF…NAMI OHIO — $80,000 · OtherNAMI OHIOOmega Community Development Corporation — $57,000 · OtherDAYBREAK INC — $51,775 · Other+41 more — $558,527 · Other+41 moreDAYTON BOAT CLUB — $650,000 · Recreation & SportsDAYTON BOAT C…BIKE MIAMI VALLEY OHIO — $205,500 · Recreation & SportsBIKE MIAMI VA…DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY — $513,500 · Arts & CultureDayton Performing Arts Alliance — $21,100 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $24,500 · Arts & CultureDETERMINED TO DEVELOP — $450,027 · InternationalDayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation — $37,000 · InternationalOHIO SUICIDE PREVENTION FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Public Benefit
Education$2,408,833Philanthropy$1,286,245Other$1,388,690Recreation & Sports$855,500Arts & Culture$559,100International$487,027Public Benefit$200,000

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 budgetARCADE INNOVATION HUB LLC — $2,348,143 over 5y, 76% of budgetGREENE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,070,545 over 2y, 14% of budgetDAYTON BOAT CLUB — $650,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetDAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY — $513,500 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetDETERMINED TO DEVELOP — $450,027 over 1y, 85% of budgetTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION — $215,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIKE MIAMI VALLEY OHIO — $205,500 over 2y, 30% of budgetOHIO SUICIDE PREVENTION FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER DAYTON AREA — $158,758 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetNAMI OHIO — $80,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOmega Community Development Corporation — $57,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDAYBREAK INC — $51,775 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation — $37,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetAIR CAMP INC — $35,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetYWCA Dayton — $33,687 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $31,060 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE — $26,506 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGOODWILL EASTER SEALS MIAMI VALLEY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN — $24,456 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE MIAMI VALLEY — $22,016 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS — $21,724 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDayton Performing Arts Alliance — $21,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe National Conference for Community and Justice of Greater Dayton — $20,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetA SPECIAL WISH FOUNDATION INC OF SOUTHWEST OHIO — $17,402 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMISSION OF MARY COOPERATIVE — $13,150 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetContemporary Dayton Inc — $12,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDAYTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREACH OUT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDAYTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATION & PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT FDTN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAccess to Excess — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetEXPRESSIONS OF LIFE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetB-W GREENWAY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetLEARN TO EARN DAYTON — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTRATEGIC OHIO COUNCIL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU — $8,966 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEFULL — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetK12 GALLERY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE — $7,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRE-VOLV — $6,250 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHINK TANK INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE RESCUE MISSION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BRUNNER LITERACY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSUNLIGHT VILLAGE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOUNCIL ON LEGAL EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHave A Gay Day Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DAYTON — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Dayton FoundationMathile Family Founda…Dayton Foundation Dep…Dayton Foundation Plu…The Dayton Power and …Miami Valley HospitalThe CareSource Founda…Iddings Benevolent Tr…The United Way of the…WPCU Sunshine Communi…Frank M Tait Foundati…Dayton Children's Hos…
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

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 University of Dayton 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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 66 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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