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Yellow Springs Community Foundation
Entrusted with the responsibility of enhancing community life, the YELLOW SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION has the following vision: to serve as a catalyst and resource for philanthropy; to build and be stewards of endowments that address the community's evolving needs; to provide flexible and cost-effective ways for donors to improve our…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 34 grants below total $841,441 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,356,612 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $515,171 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 $10k12 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $311k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $443k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +24% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 8 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
- GHGLEN HELEN ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $538k · revenue +292%
- YSYELLOW SPRINGS HOME INC8× · 2017–2024 · $346k · revenue +543%
- YSYELLOW SPRINGS SENIOR CITIZENS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $134k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- FIFOUNDERS IMPACT INVESTMENT FUNDone grant, 2019 · $80k
- YSYELLOW SPRINGS EVSDone grant, 2017 · $74k
- ACANTICOH COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $65k
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.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
To promote awareness, access and appreciation of the arts for area residents, visitors and artists in order to assist the development of the human, artistic and cultural potential of glenwood springs and the surrounding area.
YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
To enhance the quality of life in the community by stimulating community interest in art, fostering creation and inquiry throughout columbus, and leading a vibrant arts culture tied to our unique history.
Create connections between diverse artists seeking mutual growth through collaboration.
To support and advance the arts and cultural community by broadening and enriching creative and economic growth in the region. the organization envisions a community that celebrates artistic and cultural diversity and inspires creative…
The mission of Young Chamber Musicians is to advance the skill and artistry of exceptional pre-college string players and pianists through the focused study of chamber music, encouraging life-long participation in music.
We are Cincinnati's national theater - committed to bringing diverse, engaging works of great artistry to our community, and to putting Cincinnati's artistic excellence in the national spotlight.
The mission of the berks arts council is to inspire, engage and unite our community through arts education, collaboration, and presentation.
Entrusted with the responsibility of enhancing community life, the yellow springs community foundation has the following vision: to serve as a catalyst and resource for philanthropy; to build and be stewards of endowments that address the…
The Greater Cincinnati Film Commission is dedicated to maximizing the area's economic potential by attracting, promoting and cultivating film, television, and commercial production throughout Greater Cincinnati. Once filmmakers choose…
To nurture a community where people can prosper in the business of music while contributing to columbus' overall cultural and economic growth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions. 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 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) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 87 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 GLEN HELEN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOW SPRINGS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds ANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOW SPRINGS SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOW SPRINGS COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOW SPRINGS ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE ARTHUR MORGAN INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds WORLD HOUSE CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds 365 PROJECT ↗
- Who funds John Bryan Community Pottery ↗
- Who funds HOMEFULL ↗
- Who funds MAD RIVER THEATER WORKS ↗
- Who funds RIDING CENTRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TECUMSEH LAND PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC IN YELLOW SPRINGS 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.
Open a dossier: The Dayton Foundation · Morgan Family Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Greene County Community Foundation · The Springfield Foundation · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Kettering Family Foundation · Mathile Family Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · 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 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.
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.