Tipp City Foundation

What Tipp City Foundation does

The Tipp City Foundation is a private nonprofit community foundation established on August 3, 1943, with an original gift of $1,300, serving Tipp City, Monroe Township, and Bethel Township in Ohio. The foundation manages 67 endowment funds (including 18 dedicated scholarship funds) with total assets exceeding $11.5 million as of 2026, and has awarded over $3.36 million in cumulative grants since inception. It distributes funding across education, environment, arts, health, social services, and recreation through quarterly grantmaking cycles (deadlines February 15, May 15, August 15, and November 15). The foundation operates programs including discretionary Impact Grants, the William's Gift Fund, Project T.I.P.P. (a teen grantmaking program), and the Teen Leadership Academy conducted in partnership with the Tipp City Chamber of Commerce.

The foundation is governed entirely by an unpaid volunteer Board of Trustees (up to 15 members serving three-year terms) and operates as a component fund of The Troy Foundation, which provides professional investment management, administrative oversight, and online donation processing. Donors contribute through the Troy Foundation website, by check, or via the Legacy Society planned-giving program; endowment funds can be established with a minimum $25,000 gift across unrestricted, designated, field-of-interest, scholarship, agency endowment, and advised fund structures. The foundation does not sell products or services and has no disclosed technology platform beyond its website (tippfoundation.org), Facebook page, Instagram, Constant Contact newsletter, and printed annual reports delivered to local residential mailboxes.

Recent activity reflects steady programmatic growth rather than expansion: the foundation rebranded from "Tipp City Area Community Foundations" to "Tipp City Foundation" in 2017, expanded to its bylaw-maximum board size in 2018, and awarded its largest single grant in history ($75,000 to Tipp Pride Association) in 2018. Discretionary grantmaking in 2025 reached approximately $180,000 across 57 awards averaging about $3,000 each, with named grantees spanning Tippecanoe High School, Bethel Local Schools, Tipp City Parks Department, Brukner Nature Center, Needy Basket of Southern Miami County, Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Miami Valley Region, and Dayton Performing Arts Alliance.

Name

Tipp City Foundation

Legal name

Tipp City Foundation

Website

https://tippfoundation.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1943

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Tipp City Foundation is a private nonprofit community foundation serving Tipp City, Monroe Township, and Bethel Township, Ohio. It manages 67 endowment funds with over $11.5 million in assets, distributing quarterly grants and scholarships to local nonprofits, schools, and community organizations through an all-volunteer board.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Foundation Philanthropy

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Foundations (BPAGAKAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Private Foundations (BPAGAKAA), Public Charities & Grantmaking Intermediaries (BPAGAKAE)

Keywords

• Community foundation
• Charitable giving
• Endowment funds
• Grant programs
• Philanthropy services

Headquarters

HQ city

Tipp City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Charitable Contributions and Donations: The foundation receives charitable contributions, legacies, endowments, and planned gifts from community donors. Funds are financially managed under the parent organization The Troy Foundation. Donors can contribute to various named endowment funds.
2. Endowment Fund Management: Donors establish endowment funds with a minimum of $25,000. The foundation manages these funds and awards grants from the interest earned on initial donations. There are 67 endowment funds currently managed by the foundation.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

The Tipp City Foundation is a private nonprofit community foundation that solicits charitable contributions, legacies, and endowments from community donors and distributes grants to IRS-approved 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations serving Tipp City, Monroe Township, and Bethel Township in Ohio. It operates quarterly grantmaking cycles, manages 67 endowment funds, provides scholarships to local students, and runs a Teen Leadership Academy in partnership with the Tipp City Chamber of Commerce.

Product overview

The Tipp City Foundation is a community foundation that serves as a charitable organization focused on giving back to Tipp City, Monroe Township, and Bethel Township. The organization operates several interconnected programs: Grant Programs that distribute annual funding to nonprofits in areas like education, environment, arts, health, and social services; Scholarship Programs that award nearly $40,000 annually to graduating seniors and adult learners; Impact Grants through a competitive application process; Project T.I.P.P. which engages teens in grantmaking decisions; and the Teen Leadership Academy that develops youth leadership. The Foundation also manages 67 endowment funds of various types (unrestricted, designated, field of interest, scholarship, agency endowment, and advised funds) that generate grant dollars through interest earned on initial donations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Quarterly Grant Programs

Quantifiable outcome

• Over $3.36 million awarded to local causes since 1943
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• The Troy FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 August 1943The Tipp City Foundation is a component/member fund of The Troy Foundation. The Troy Foundation provides professional financial management, administrative support, and oversight for the Tipp City Foundation's assets and operations. Donations are processed through The Troy Foundation's website.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Piqua Community Foundation: Community foundation serving Piqua, Ohio, within Miami County. Operates a near-identical model of community grantmaking, scholarships, and endowment funds at a small scale similar to Tipp City Foundation.
• The Troy Foundation: The parent organization of Tipp City Foundation, a community foundation serving Troy, Ohio and Miami County. Operates the same component-fund model, manages Tipp City Foundation's assets, and processes its donations through its website. Most direct comparability as the parent and shared back-office.
• Miami County Foundation: Community foundation serving Miami County, Ohio, including Tipp City. Direct geographic overlap and similar scope of grantmaking, community fund structures, and donor services. Most direct regional peer.

Regional players

• Springfield Foundation: Community foundation serving Springfield and Clark County, Ohio. Comparable community foundation model with similar grantmaking, scholarship, and endowment fund offerings, serving a different but nearby Ohio geography.
• Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation: Community foundation serving Hancock County in northwest Ohio. Comparable small-to-mid-sized community foundation structure with scholarships, grants, and donor-advised funds, but in a different Ohio region.
• Darke County Foundation: Community foundation serving Darke County, Ohio, adjacent to Miami County. Similar size and scope to Tipp City Foundation with overlapping donor base in western Ohio, offering grants and scholarships.

Broad incumbents

• Cleveland Foundation: First community foundation in the U.S., serving Greater Cleveland. Comparable organizational structure and grantmaking model, but operates with paid staff, much larger asset base, and broader programmatic scope.
• Greater Cincinnati Foundation: Major Ohio community foundation offering similar grantmaking, scholarship, and donor-advised fund services. Comparable mission and structure with substantially larger assets and geographic reach.
• Dayton Foundation: One of the largest community foundations in the Miami Valley region, serving the greater Dayton area. Comparable structure and grantmaking focus, but operates at significantly larger scale and broader geographic scope.
• Columbus Foundation: One of the largest community foundations in the United States, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Operates a similar model of donor-advised funds, competitive grants, and scholarships, but at a fundamentally larger scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/tippfoundation
• Instagraminstagram.com/tippfoundation/?hl=en
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tipp-city-foundation

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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