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Art Iron Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k15 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOLEDO ORCHESTRA ASSN | $10,000 |
| ST FRANCES DE SALES SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| PROMEDICA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| ARTS COMMISISON OF GREATER TOLEDO | $2,500 |
| CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| PERRYSBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER TOLEDO | $2,000 |
| APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $1,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH COUNCIL OF TOLEDO | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- TATOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS2× · 2017–2021 · $15k · revenue +34%
- TTTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +34%
- TTTHE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY2× · 2017–2021 · $3k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TSTHE SISTERS OF NOTRE DAMEone grant, 2017 · $3k
- PTPROMEDICA TOLEDO HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $2k
- HLHOPE LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $1k
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 improve the human condition through excellence in patient care and medical discovery.
Supporting the university of toledo by fostering a spirit of loyalty among its alumni.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
To solve critical business challenges in order to create vibrant economic opportunities for all in our region.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Toledo Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 24 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 PROMEDICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS COMMISSION OF GREATER TOLEDO I ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
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 · Hylant Family Foundation Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · George Isaac Foundation · Tr Ua Toledo Community Foundation- Donor · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo · Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund · Jocarno Fund · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · Firstenergy 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 Art Iron 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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