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Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
66
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$3.8MHuman Services$1.6MHealth$905kYouth Development$555kFood & Nutrition$455kEmployment$297kEducation$285kEnvironment$233kOther$0
02FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $964k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $390k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAYTON PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE$165,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$75,000
DAYTON ART INSTITUTE$75,000
DAYTON LIVE (FORMERLY VICTORIA THEATRE$75,000
DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE CO$40,000
FOODBANK INC$35,000
YWCA OF DAYTON$35,000
GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE$35,000
GREATER DAYTON PUBLIC TELEVISION$30,000
DAYBREAK$30,000
ARTEMIS CENTERALTERNATIVES$30,000
YMCA DAYTON$30,000
MONTGOMERY COUNTY$30,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL$30,000
VIOLENCE FREE FUTURES$25,000
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 (FY17–24, $808k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 11%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 11%SENIOR RESOURCE CONNECTION: $18k → 14%SENIOR RESOURCE CONNECTION: $10k → 14%SENIOR RESOURCE CONNECTION: $10k → 14%SENIOR RESOURCE CONNECTION: $5k → 14%HANNAHS TREASURE CHEST: $15k → 14%HANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST: $15k → 14%HANNAHS TREASURE CHEST: $15k → 14%HANNAHS TREASURE CHEST: $10k → 14%HANNAHS TREASURE CHEST: $10k → 14%HANNAHS TREASURE CHEST: $10k → 14%CLOTHES THAT WORK: $32k → 14%CLOTHES THAT WORK: $25k → 14%CLOTHES THAT WORK: $25k → 14%CLOTHES THAT WORK: $25k → 14%CLOTHES THAT WORK: $25k → 14%CLOTHES THAT WORK: $25k → 14%CLOTHES THAT WORK: $10k → 14%VALENS SOLUTIONS INC: $5k → 14%ACCESS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $10k → 14%CHOICES IN COMMUNITY LIVING: $10k → 14%CHOICES IN COMMUNITY LIVING: $3k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE: $60k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE: $35k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE: $35k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE: $35k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE: $30k → 14%DAYBREAK: $30k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE: $30k → 14%DAYBREAK: $30k → 14%DAYBREAK: $30k → 14%DAYBREAK: $30k → 14%DAYBREAK: $30k → 14%DAYBREAK: $30k → 14%DAYBREAK: $30k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE: $25k → 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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.8M · 81 repeat orgs$556k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

81 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
27

Total granted

$8.8M
$424k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+14%

Still filing today

59%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • DC
    DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $285k · revenue +21%
  • YD
    YWCA Dayton
    6× · 2019–2024 · $285k · revenue +10%
  • GN
    GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MIAMI
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
  • HO
    HOUSE OF BREAD
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue 0%

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
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
2
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce

The chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.

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3
Ohio United Way

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

Philanthropy
4
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
5
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
6
The Dayton Equity Center

The Equity Center exists to empower collaboratives that revive communities.

Community Improvement
7
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
8
The League of Women Voters of the Greater Dayton Area

The League of Women Voters provides nonpartisan educational voter information regarding political issues and candidates.

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9
United Way of Greater Lima Inc

United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.

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10
Grace Urban Development Corporation

Grace Urban Development GUD is a non-profit agency located in the City of Dayton, Ohio that operates exclusively for improving the quality of life of people through community economic development, housing development, and job training. GUD…

Community Improvement
11
The Junior League of Dayton Ohio Inc

Promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving the community through effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dayton Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Shango Inc. 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 backsteadyCommunity Arts & Culture Or…Regional Healthcare SystemsCommunity Foundations and G…Youth Education & Care Serv…Member-Owned Financial Coop…Community Support Services
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 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%10%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr14%20%20–35yr17%30%35–55yr19%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr14%19%20–35yr17%26%35–55yr19%44%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%0/74
the rest of the field
11%
477/4,370

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

73 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. 73 of the 120 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
44/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD — $395,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODDAYTON LIVE (FORMERLY VICTORIA THEATRE — $350,000 · OtherDAYTON LIVE (FORMERLY VICTORIA THEATREYWCA Dayton — $285,000 · OtherYWCA DaytonYMCA OF GREATER DAYTON — $225,000 · OtherARTEMIS CENTERALTERNATIVES — $210,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL — $210,000 · OtherMONTGOMERY COUNTY — $183,500 · Other+68 more — $2,655,136 · Other+68 moreDayton Performing Arts Alliance — $1,265,000 · Arts & CultureDayton Performing Arts AllianceTHE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE — $525,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DAYTON ART INSTITUTEDAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY — $285,000 · Arts & CultureDAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANYGreater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV — $190,000 · Arts & CultureGreater Dayton Public Television d…+10 more — $557,500 · Arts & Culture+10 moreGOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE — $250,000 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIG…DAYBREAK INC — $210,000 · Human ServicesDAYBREAK …CLOTHES THAT WORK — $167,200 · Human ServicesCLOTHES T…HANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST — $75,000 · Human ServicesHANNAH'S …Senior Resource Connection — $42,500 · Human ServicesWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $35,000 · Human Services+3 more — $28,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOODBANK INC — $245,000 · Food & NutritionMIAMI VALLEY MEALS INC — $75,000 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE — $50,000 · Food & NutritionHOUSE OF BREAD — $30,000 · Food & NutritionKids in New Directions — $102,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scouts of Western Ohio — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF DAYTON — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentON-THE-RISE — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentDAKOTA STREET CENTER INC — $16,200 · Youth DevelopmentWesley Community Center Inc — $100,000 · EducationCRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS — $95,000 · EducationThe Dayton Metro Library Foundation — $35,000 · EducationANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION — $25,000 · Education+3 more — $17,500 · EducationWESTCARE OHIO INC — $120,000 · HealthBRIGID'S PATH INC — $100,000 · HealthDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $25,000 · HealthGrandview Foundation — $20,000 · Health+2 more — $6,500 · Health
Other$4,513,636Arts & Culture$2,822,500Human Services$807,700Food & Nutrition$400,000Youth Development$273,200Education$272,500Health$271,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDayton Performing Arts Alliance — $1,265,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetTHE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE — $525,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetDAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY — $285,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetYWCA Dayton — $285,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE — $250,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetTHE FOODBANK INC — $245,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDAYBREAK INC — $210,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGreater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV — $190,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCLOTHES THAT WORK — $167,200 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetTHE MUSE MACHINE INC — $140,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetWESTCARE OHIO INC — $120,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetKids in New Directions — $102,000 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetWesley Community Center Inc — $100,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetBRIGID'S PATH INC — $100,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetGOODWILL EASTER SEALS MIAMI VALLEY — $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS — $95,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetK12 GALLERY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE — $90,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetContemporary Dayton Inc — $90,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetGirl Scouts of Western Ohio — $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWe Care Arts Inc — $85,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON — $85,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetMIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $80,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST — $75,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMIAMI VALLEY MEALS INC — $75,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BUTLER COUNTY INC — $55,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Greater Dayton Inc — $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Human Race Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetGLEN HELEN ASSOCIATION — $48,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetBACH SOCIETY OF DAYTON INC — $47,500 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetSenior Resource Connection — $42,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDAYTON HISTORY — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN — $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART — $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF DAYTON — $40,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetMERCY MANOR INC — $40,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION — $38,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dayton Metro Library Foundation — $35,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSE OF BREAD — $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBRUKNER NATURE CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFriends of Aullwood Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON INC — $28,200 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetThe Learning Tree Farm Inc — $27,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetVIOLENCE FREE FUTURES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetON-THE-RISE — $25,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $25,000 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.

  • Who funds Dayton Performing Arts Alliance ↗
  • Who funds THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds YWCA Dayton ↗
  • Who funds GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds DAYBREAK INC ↗
  • Who funds Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV ↗
  • Who funds CLOTHES THAT WORK ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSE MACHINE INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTCARE OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds Kids in New Directions ↗
  • Who funds Wesley Community Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRIGID'S PATH INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL EASTER SEALS MIAMI VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS ↗
  • Who funds K12 GALLERY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ↗
  • Who funds Contemporary Dayton Inc ↗
  • Who funds Girl Scouts of Western Ohio ↗
  • Who funds We Care Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON ↗
  • Who funds MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds HANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST ↗
  • Who funds MIAMI VALLEY MEALS INC ↗

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 …Iddings Benevolent Tr…Kettering Family Foun…Levin Family Foundati…The United Way of the…The CareSource Founda…The Berry Family Foun…Synchrony Foundation
The Dayton FoundationOH109.3× affinity56 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 · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · Kettering Family Foundation · Levin Family Foundation · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · The CareSource Foundation · The Berry Family Foundation · Synchrony 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 Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 120 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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