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YELLOW SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
To enhance community life in yellow springs and miami township by providing means for chariable giving and grants, making that fund a broad range of activities.
$1.4M
Granted FY2024
34
Grants
1
Communities
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of YELLOW SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
antioch
2019
foundersimpactantioch
2020
phillipsscholarship
2021
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2022
—
2023
field
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 34 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $311k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $443k
$13,763
Median grant
1
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
- WYSO PUBLIC RADIO$125,270
- GLEN HELEN ASSOCIATION$107,884
- THE ANTIOCH SCHOOL$80,974
- YS SENIOR CITIZENS INC$68,929
- YELLOW SPRINGS HOME INC$59,884
- ANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION$38,800
- YELLOW SPRINGS COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S$32,583
- HOMEFULL$25,000
- AGRARIA$22,278
- YELLOW SPRINGS EXEMPTED VILLAGE$20,064
- MAD RIVER THEATER WORKS$19,349
- FAIRBORN SCHOLASTIC CHESS CLUB INC$17,128
- WORLD HOUSE CHOIR$16,843
- JOHN BRYAN COMMUNITY POTTERY$16,110
- MIAMI VALLEY EDUCATIONAL COMPUTER$15,000
02The need
04
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, $213k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 12%. 22% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 43 repeat orgs$725k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
43
36
Total granted
$3.9M
$647k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+83%
+19%
Still filing today
35%
19%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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
- GHGLEN HELEN ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $538k · revenue +445%
- YSYELLOW SPRINGS HOME INC8× · 2017–2024 · $346k · revenue +543%
- YSYELLOW SPRINGS COMMUNITY CHILDRENS7× · 2017–2024 · $166k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- ACANTIOCH COLLEGE-WYSOone grant, 2017 · $120k
- FIFOUNDERS IMPACT INVESTMENT FUNDone grant, 2019 · $80k
- YSYELLOW SPRINGS EVSDone grant, 2017 · $74k
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.
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Yellow Springs Community Foundation
To enhance community life in yellow springs and miami township by providing means for chariable giving and grants, making that fund a broad range of activities.
Philanthropy
2
The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio
The mission of the contemporary theatre of ohio is to harness the transformational power of theatre for the current moment to inspire empathy in our community. we are responsive to community needs by producing productions for adults and…
Arts & Culture
3
Yellowstone Art Museum
The yellowstone art museum exhibits, interprets, collects and preserves art, for the enrichment, education, inspiration and enjoyment of all.
Arts & Culture
4
Jewish Community Center of Cincinnati
The Mayerson JCC provides cultural, social, educational and recreational programs to the Jewish Community and general community of Greater Cincinnati.
Recreation & Sports
5
Glenwood Springs Arts Council
Creating visibility, support and opportunity for the arts in our community.
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6
The Contemporary Arts Center
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
Arts & Culture
7
Contemporary Arts Center
To provide public access to contemporary art. The Contemporary Arts Center is a multi-disciplinary arts center that is dedicated to the presentation, production, and promotion of the arts of our time.
Arts & Culture
8
Historic Yellow Springs Inc
To share, preserve and celebrate the unique living village of yellow springs, pennsylvania focusing on history, arts, education and the environment.
Arts & Culture
9
Friends of the Yellow River State
To enhance yellow river state forest for public use while protecting the integrity of the flora, fauna, soil, and water.
Environment
10
Dayton Theatre Guild
Provide entertainment, encourage the advancement of theater art in the community and provide an opportunity for cultural and technical growth of guild members through the experience of live theater.
Arts & Culture
11
Columbus Club Association of Ysleta
Provide affordable housing for 55+ year old tenants.
Housing & Shelter
12
The Youngstown Playhouse
We are a community theatre, maintaining our theatre for use by local actors. most all participants are volunteers. we offer acting classes for students, and also conduct a youth theatre program.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends Health Care Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Barnard College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
3%1/33
the rest of the field
10%
367/3,754
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.
05the grantee network
24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$2,870,749Environment$566,158Housing & Shelter$346,440Arts & Culture$336,156Education$225,693Human Services$213,321Philanthropy$24,000
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 GLEN HELEN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOW SPRINGS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOW SPRINGS COMMUNITY CHILDRENS ↗
- Who funds YELLOW SPRINGS ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE ARTHUR MORGAN INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds WORLD HOUSE CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds THE 365 PROJECT ↗
- Who funds YELLOW SPRINGS SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN BRYAN COMMUNITY POTTERY INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEFULL ↗
- Who funds MAD RIVER THEATER WORKS ↗
- Who funds THE RIDING CENTRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TECUMSEH LAND PRESERVATION ASSO ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC YELLOW SPRINGS ↗
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.
Morgan Family FoundationOH37.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Morgan Family Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Kettering Family Foundation · Greene County Community Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation YELLOW SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: YELLOW SPRINGS ARTS COUNCIL.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 311215024 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on YELLOW SPRINGS ARTS COUNCIL, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 52% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Yellow Springs Community Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Yellow Springs Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines