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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $758,673, the rows itemized in this filing. The $257,983,584 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $257,224,911 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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 CORP: $10k → 14%OMEGA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
OH
PA
CA
MO
MD
HI
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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 sends the money.

About 18% of University of Dayton’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 89%.

University of Daytonlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+14%

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

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Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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.

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%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
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
8
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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9
Ohio United Way

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

Philanthropy
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
Downtown Dayton Partnership Corp

We are dedicated to making downtown dayton a better place to live, work, and visit. working with downtown property owners, businesses, and residents, we provide strategic planning, business development and marketing services to grow and…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Vincent De Paul Social Services Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
30/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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, 1.5% 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 budgetFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetDAYTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATION & PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT FDTN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEXPRESSIONS OF LIFE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetLEARN TO EARN DAYTON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREACH OUT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetB-W GREENWAY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetAccess to Excess: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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 budgetCOUNCIL ON LEGAL EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE HOUSE RESCUE MISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DAYTON: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNLIGHT VILLAGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHave A Gay Day Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE BRUNNER LITERACY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization University of Dayton funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University of Dayton. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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