· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HTHANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST2× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +35%
- AFADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC2× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +68%
- CTCRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS2× · 2022–2024 · $23k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- YDYWCA Daytonone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -27%
- DIDAYBREAK INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -23%
- DCDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduatedone 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.
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.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
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.
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…
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
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…
To help individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional stability.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
To promote community by nuturing children and empowering familites in a christian environment by providing childcare services and supportive services for families.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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 field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 BRIDGEWAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREENE CO OH ↗
- Who funds YWCA Dayton ↗
- Who funds DAYBREAK INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS ↗
- Who funds BRIGID'S PATH INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCARE OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Greater Dayton Inc ↗
- Who funds CLINTONVILLE-BEECHWOLD COMMUNITY RESOURCES CENTER ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER DAYTON INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FLOURISH INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM A LA CART ↗
- Who funds EXPRESSIONS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds NELLIES CHAMPIONS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds From Fatherless to Fearless ↗
- Who funds YELLOW SPRINGS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Impact Garage ↗
- Who funds LEARN TO EARN DAYTON ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKI PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds STAR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds VISTA VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds KETTERING MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Canal Winchester Human Services Corp ↗
- Who funds Kids in New Directions ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wesley Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTEMIS CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHURCH HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds Omega Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER DAYTON AREA ↗
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.
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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.
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