· Private foundation
Andersons Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k46 grants · $147k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $174k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA - Greater Toledo | $75,000 |
| Central Catholic High School | $50,000 |
| Mom's House | $50,000 |
| The Blackbaud Giving Fund | $34,100 |
| Toledo School for the Arts | $25,000 |
| Emergency Assistance Foundation | $25,000 |
| The Blackbaud Giving Fund | $22,469 |
| YMCA - Greater Toledo | $15,000 |
| TutorSmart | $12,500 |
| Aurora House-Aurora Project Inc | $10,000 |
| Central City Ministries of Toledo (CCMT) | $10,000 |
| 4-H Randolph County | $10,000 |
| Seneca County Agricultural Society | $10,000 |
| Partners in Education | $7,420 |
| Toledo Lake Erie & Western Railway & Museum Inc | $5,140 |
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 (FY20–24, $244k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of Andersons Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 64% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 7 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- MHMOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO3× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue ×15
- TOTOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +11%
- BIBITTERSWEET INC5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- NMNational Museum of the Great Lakesone grant, 2023 · $75k
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDOone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -27%
- MSMonroe Street United Methodist Churchone grant, 2023 · $35k
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 enable other community organizations to end hunger. we strive to maximize community resources by effectively obtaining and distributing food through a food collection and distribution system.
Toledo GROWs nurtures the joy of growing. Toledo GROWs educates the community about the value of local nutritious food. Our active urban farm and support for community gardens promote healthy eating and creates a region alive with gardens.
To solve critical business challenges in order to create vibrant economic opportunities for all in our region.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
The ohio district 5 area agency on aging, inc. provides leadership, collaboration, coordination and services to older adults, people with disabilities, their caregivers and resource networks that support individual choice, independence and…
To assist people with disabilities to live, work and socialize within a fully accessible community.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
Toledo Legal Aid Society provides legal representation for indigent clients that are charged with criminal, traffic, or juvenile offenses for which the penalty or any possible adjudication includes the potential loss of liberty.
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…
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
To 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 health care…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toledo Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stratford Ecological Center 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 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
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 118 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 THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO EARLY LEARNING COALITION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TUTORSMART ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds L&A Park Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BITTERSWEET INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds HENRY COUNTY AG IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENT COUNTY YOUTH AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PERRYSBURG HEIGHTS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN EDUCATION OF TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds CRITTER BARN ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds EASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF TOLEDO INC ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY COUNTY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION 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: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · United Way of Greater Toledo · The Stranahan Supporting Organization · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · Promedica Health System Inc · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund · The Oswald Supporting Organization
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 Andersons 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.
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