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William R Dally Foundation at a glance

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William R Dally Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$136k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
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 2024.

Human Services$286kEducation$284kYouth Development$150kHealth$136kCrime & Legal$124kInternational$9kFood & Nutrition$8kReligion$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$6,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION$25,000
COUNCIL ON CHILD ABUSE$15,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCIN$9,000
LASALLE HIGH SCHOOL$9,000
Ayer Elementary PTA$8,000
One Way Farm$8,000
PARKINSON COMMUNITY FITNESS$8,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$8,000
MERCY HEALTH CINCINNATI FOUNDATION$6,000
GREATER CINCINNATI CRIME STOPPERS$6,000
CINCINNATI GOLDEN GLOVES FOR YOUTH$5,000
The Hope of Survivors$5,000
DISCOVERY RIDERS$5,000
LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES$4,000
THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION$4,000
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 (FY17–24, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Hope of Survivors: $5k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $7k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $4k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $4k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $9k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $5k → 16%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $12k → 16%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $12k → 16%PARKINSON COMMUNITY FITNESS: $8k → 16%PARKINSON COMMUNITY FITNESS: $8k → 16%PARKINSON COMMUNITY FITNESS: $8k → 16%PARKINSON COMMUNITY FITNESS: $7k → 16%PARKINSON COMMUNITY FITNESS: $7k → 16%PARKINSON COMMUNITY FITNESS: $6k → 16%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$980k · 24 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
3

Total granted

$980k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+10%

Still filing today

54%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • AL
    ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI
    8× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +70%
  • PC
    PARKINSON COMMUNITY FITNESS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $44k · revenue +223%
  • OW
    One Way Farm of Fairfield Inc
    4× · 2017–2023 · $36k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • SF
    ST FRANCIS SERAPH MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +10%
  • GA
    Genesis at Work Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • II
    ISPACE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +14%
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 Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
2
Cincinnati Center for Autism

We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.

Education
3
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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4
The Cincinnati Foundation for the Aged
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5
St Aloysius Orphanage

St. Aloysius Orphanage provides an integrated continuum of trauma responsive care and specialized education to children experiencing significant behavioral health needs. St. Aloysius is a Family Teaching Center that commits its resources…

Human Services
6
Cincinnati Shoulder and Elbow Research and Education Foundation Inc
Health
7
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
8
Fotofocus Cincinnati
Arts & Culture
9
St Joseph Infant and Maternity Home

With a 150+ year history, Saint Joe's is a place where people with developmental disabilities and complex support needs find connection, dignity and joy. Our community is built on compassion and possibility where every person is seen,…

Human Services
10
Elizabeth Seton Housing Corporation

Elizabeth Seton Housing Corporation provides housing for adults with developmental disabilities who have complex support needs in small residential home environments. The Corporation is operated in connection with the mission of St. Joseph…

Human Services
11
Another Chance of Ohio

Provide housing, drug addiction counseling and other resources to low income families and individuals.

Human Services
12
Ohio Teaching Family Association

Foster care and counseling of significantly abused ad troubled youth

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse Youth Services; the most unlike its peers is Ayer Elementary Pto. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
10/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UC FOUNDATION: $162,500 · OtherUC FOUNDATIONCOUNCIL ON CHILD ABUSE: $87,000 · OtherCOUNCIL ON CHILD ABUSELASALLE HIGH SCHOOL: $83,000 · OtherLASALLE HIGH SCHOOLASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $78,000 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATITHE HOPE OF SURVIVORS: $73,000 · OtherTHE HOPE OF SURVIVORSRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GRT CINTI: $55,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GRT CINTIHOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI: $37,000 · OtherOne Way Farm of Fairfield Inc: $36,000 · Other+10 more: $88,000 · Other+10 morePARKINSON COMMUNITY FITNESS: $44,000 · Human ServicesPARKINSON COM…LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $34,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YO…CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $24,000 · Human ServicesCANCER SUPPOR…The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $13,898 · Human ServicesThe Children'…THE HOPE OF SURVIVORS: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesCINCINNATI GOLDEN GLOVES FOR YOUTH: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsDiscovery Riders Inc: $22,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $53,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER CINCINNATI CRIME STOPPERS: $37,483 · Crime & LegalTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION: $18,000 · HealthAUTISM CONNECTIONS: $4,000 · HealthAyer Elementary PTO: $17,000 · Education
Other$699,500Human Services$123,898Recreation & Sports$57,000Philanthropy$53,000Crime & Legal$37,483Health$22,000Education$17,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $78,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $53,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON COMMUNITY FITNESS: $44,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetGREATER CINCINNATI CRIME STOPPERS: $37,483 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetHOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI: $37,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOne Way Farm of Fairfield Inc: $36,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCINCINNATI GOLDEN GLOVES FOR YOUTH: $35,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $34,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $24,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDiscovery Riders Inc: $22,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $13,898 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROMANIAN HANDICAPPED MINISTRIES INC: $9,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetST FRANCIS SERAPH MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOPE OF SURVIVORS: $5,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetAUTISM CONNECTIONS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGenesis at Work Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDeaf and Hard of Hearing Institute DBA Deaf Streetlight: $3,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetISPACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON COMMUNITY FITNESS ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CINCINNATI CRIME STOPPERS ↗
  • Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds One Way Farm of Fairfield Inc ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI GOLDEN GLOVES FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY ↗
  • Who funds Discovery Riders Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Ayer Elementary PTO ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
  • Who funds ROMANIAN HANDICAPPED MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS SERAPH MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds THE HOPE OF SURVIVORS ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM CONNECTIONS ↗
  • Who funds Genesis at Work Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Deaf and Hard of Hearing Institute DBA Deaf Streetlight ↗
  • Who funds ISPACE INC ↗

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 Greater Cincinnat…Spaulding FoundationPfau Charitable Found…Charles H Dater Found…Andrew Jergens Founda…Johnson Charitable Gi…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Spaulding Foundation · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 William R Dally Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William R Dally Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 31 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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