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WPCU Sunshine Community Fund

Develop and provide financial learning programs, products, and/or services to enable financial wellbeing for all age groups regardless of economic & social situations, but with an emphasis on areas suffering from financial disparities.

$337k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
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 FY20212024.

Human Services$311kHealth$201kHousing & Shelter$132kEducation$113kYouth Development$89kFood & Nutrition$37kCommunity Improvement$30kEmployment$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 26 grants below total $309,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $337,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,500 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $295k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rebuilding Together Dayton$20,000
Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center$20,000
Hannah's Treasure Chest$15,000
Canal Winchester Human Services$15,000
Yellow Springs Home Inc$15,000
Learn to Earn Dayton$15,000
Impact Garage$15,000
Family Promise of Greene County Ohio$15,000
Good Neighbor House$12,500
Artemis Center$12,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Miami Valley$10,000
TCN Behavioral Health Services INC$10,000
Fairview Dayton United Methodist Church$10,000
Crayons to Classrooms$10,000
Westerville Area Resource Ministry (WARM)$10,000
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 (FY21–24, $293k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISAIAH'S PLACE INC: $7k → 10%United Church Homes Inc: $10k → 17%The New Path Inc: $10k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $10k → 15%EXPRESSIONS OF LIFE INC: $17k → 14%Omega Community Development Corporation: $10k → 14%BRIDGEWAY ACADEMY: $25k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $10k → 15%Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center: $20k → 15%Bridgeway Academy: $15k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $15k → 15%HANNAH'S TREASURE: $15k → 14%Families Flourish Inc dba Move to PROSPER: $19k → 15%NC4K: $15k → 15%Hannah's Treasure Chest: $15k → 14%AGAPE OF YOUTH: $16k → 14%Westerville Area Resource Ministry (WARM): $10k → 15%DAYBREAK: $25k → 14%Good Neighbor House: $13k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $10k → 14%Miami Valley Urban League (Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio): $8k → 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.

14%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$148k · 5 repeat orgs$885k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
46

Total granted

$148k
$616k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentEducationFood & 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

  • HT
    HANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST
    2× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +35%
  • AF
    ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +68%
  • CT
    CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS
    2× · 2022–2024 · $23k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • YD
    YWCA Dayton
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -27%
  • DI
    DAYBREAK INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -23%
  • DC
    DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +27%

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
Ohio United Way

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

Philanthropy
2
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
3
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.

4
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

5
Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc

To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.

Human Services
6
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…

Philanthropy
7
Jewish Family Services

To help individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional stability.

Human Services
8
Digitalc

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

Community Improvement
9
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
10
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

11
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

12
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area and the most unlike its peers is Npower 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Housing & Shelt…Early Childhood Care CentersYouth Sports OrganizationsChristian Evangelism Minist…Affordable Housing for Disa…Hospital Systems and Health…Charter and Alternative Sch…Disability Services Organiz…Youth and Family Mental Hea…
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 25 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%9%<5yr13%9%5–10yr17%20%10–20yr14%26%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr23%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%9%<5yr13%8%5–10yr17%22%10–20yr14%25%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr23%15%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 9% 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%0/74
the rest of the field
12%
1,604/13,228

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

68 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 74 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
42/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRIDGEWAY ACADEMY — $40,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEWAY ACADEMYHANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST — $30,000 · Human ServicesHANNAH'S TREASURE CHESTDAYBREAK INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesDAYBREAK INCCLINTONVILLE-BEECHWOLD COMMUNITY RESOURCES CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesCLINTONVILLE-BEECHWOLD COMMUNITY…FAMILIES FLOURISH INC — $18,500 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FLOURISH INCEXPRESSIONS OF LIFE INC — $16,500 · Human ServicesEXPRESSIONS OF LIFE INCAGAPE FOR YOUTH INC — $16,000 · Human ServicesAGAPE FOR YOUTH INCNELLIES CHAMPIONS FOR KIDS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO — $15,000 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE — $12,500 · Human ServicesUNITED CHURCH HOMES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesOmega Community Development Corporation — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE NEW PATH INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesWESTERVILLE AREA RESOURCE MINISTRY — $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Human Services+2 more — $14,700 · Human ServicesYWCA Dayton — $25,000 · OtherYWCA DaytonADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC — $25,000 · OtherADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY I…Habitat for Humanity of Greater Dayton Inc — $20,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity of Greater Dayt…NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC — $16,000 · OtherCanal Winchester Human Services Corp — $15,000 · OtherARTEMIS CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $12,000 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER DAYTON INC — $20,000 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER DAYTON INCJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKI PARTNERS — $15,000 · OtherDAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION INC — $12,500 · Other+18 more — $172,800 · Other+18 moreDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $25,000 · HealthDAYTON CHILDREN'S HO…THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · HealthTHE GALA OF HOPE FOU…BRIGID'S PATH INC — $20,000 · HealthBRIGID'S PATH INCWESTCARE OHIO INC — $20,000 · HealthWESTCARE OHIO INCFrom Fatherless to Fearless — $15,000 · HealthFrom Fatherless to F…KETTERING MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $15,000 · HealthKETTERING MEDICAL CE…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE …EBENEZER HEALTHCARE ACCESS INC — $10,000 · HealthEBENEZER HEALTHCARE …FIVE RIVERS HEALTH CENTERS — $10,000 · HealthFIVE RIVERS HEALTH C…Emerge Recovery and Trades Initiative — $10,000 · HealthEmerge Recovery and …TCN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — $10,000 · HealthTCN BEHAVIORAL HEALT…PINK RIBBON GOOD INC — $10,000 · HealthPINK RIBBON GOOD INCFAMILY PROMISE OF GREENE CO OH — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterYELLOW SPRINGS HOME INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterVISTA VILLAGE INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterCOUNTY CORP — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterLydia's House Inc — $7,000 · Housing & ShelterFREEDOM A LA CART — $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentKids in New Directions — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF DAYTON — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER MIAMI VALLEY INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scouts of Western Ohio — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentCRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS — $22,500 · EducationLEARN TO EARN DAYTON — $15,000 · EducationWesley Community Center Inc — $12,500 · EducationTHE BRUNNER LITERACY CENTER — $5,000 · EducationImpact Garage — $15,000 · PhilanthropySTAR HOUSE — $15,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$293,200Other$333,300Health$185,000Housing & Shelter$77,000Youth Development$59,000Education$55,000Philanthropy$30,000

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 budgetBRIDGEWAY ACADEMY — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREENE CO OH — $30,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetYWCA Dayton — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDAYBREAK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS — $22,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBRIGID'S PATH INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWESTCARE OHIO INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Greater Dayton Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCLINTONVILLE-BEECHWOLD COMMUNITY RESOURCES CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER DAYTON INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILIES FLOURISH INC — $18,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFREEDOM A LA CART — $18,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEXPRESSIONS OF LIFE INC — $16,500 over 1y, 23% of budgetAGAPE FOR YOUTH INC — $16,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNELLIES CHAMPIONS FOR KIDS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFrom Fatherless to Fearless — $15,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetYELLOW SPRINGS HOME INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetImpact Garage — $15,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLEARN TO EARN DAYTON — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKI PARTNERS — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSTAR HOUSE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVISTA VILLAGE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKETTERING MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCanal Winchester Human Services Corp — $15,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetKids in New Directions — $15,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWesley Community Center Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetARTEMIS CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $12,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED CHURCH HOMES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOmega Community Development Corporation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER DAYTON AREA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEBENEZER HEALTHCARE ACCESS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFIVE RIVERS HEALTH CENTERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW PATH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAt Home By High — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERVILLE AREA RESOURCE MINISTRY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEmerge Recovery and Trades Initiative — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 FoundationOH77.7× affinity39 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 CareSource Foundation · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Dayton Children's Hospital · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · Miami Valley 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 WPCU Sunshine Community Fund 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to WPCU Sunshine Community Fund?

Find your warmest path to WPCU Sunshine Community Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 74 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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