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· Private foundation
ART IRON FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$44k
Granted FY2021
16
Grants
3
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0175% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.
Public Benefit$55kArts & Culture$24kHousing & Shelter$4kAnimals$3kEducation$3kPhilanthropy$1kOther$30k
02FY2021 · 16 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k15 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$13k
Total assets
Largest grants
- TOLEDO ORCHESTRA ASSN$10,000
- ST FRANCES DE SALES SCHOOL$5,000
- TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
- PROMEDICA FOUNDATION$5,000
- ARTS COMMISISON OF GREATER TOLEDO$2,500
- CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES$2,500
- HOPE LUTHERAN$2,000
- YMCA OF GREATER TOLEDO$2,000
- TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$2,000
- PERRYSBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION$2,000
- DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$1,000
- SYLVANIA YMCA$1,000
- UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION$1,000
- APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH$1,000
- UNITED JEWISH COUNCIL OF TOLEDO$1,000
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 14%. 98% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
$99k · 12 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else
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
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
12
8
Total granted
$99k
$9k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
-13%
+11%
Still filing today
50%
38%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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
- PFPROMEDICA FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue -50%
- TOTOLEDO ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION2× · 2017–2021 · $15k · revenue +54%
- TMTOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue -15%
Funded once
- TSTHE SISTERS OF NOTRE DAMEone grant, 2017 · $3k
- PTPROMEDICA TOLEDO HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $2k
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDOone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -38%
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.
1
Toledo Opera Association
The mission of toledo opera is to create opera experiences in the theater, in the classroom, and throughout our community that celebrate compelling stories, expressed through golorious music and powerful voices to engage, connect, and…
Arts & Culture
2
University of Toledo Alumni Association
To engage and connect alumni, students and friends with the university.
Education
3
Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce
Promotion of commercial, industrial, and civic interests of the toledo area.
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4
University of Dayton
The university of dayton is a top-tier catholic research university with academic offerings from the undergraduate to the doctoral levels. we are a diverse community committed, in the marianist tradition, to educating the whole person and…
Education
5
University of the Ozarks
A presbyterian church related university that provides undergraduate liberal arts education.
Education
6
Ohio State Bar Association
To promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
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7
Ohio Business Roundtable
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
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8
University of New Haven
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
Education
9
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce
The dayton area chamber of commerce is formed to be the leading advocate for business in the dayton and miami valley regional area and strive to maximize business profitability of its members by providing: professional development,…
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10
Oklahoma City University
Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.
Education
11
Jewelers of America Inc
To promote consumer confidence in the jewelry industry.
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12
Jobsohio
To promote economic development, job creation, job retention, job training, workforce development, and the retention of current and recruitment of new business to ohio.
Employment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Toledo Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo I. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Public Benefit$55,000Other$30,000Arts & Culture$23,500Housing & Shelter$3,500Animals$3,000Education$2,500Philanthropy$1,000
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 PROMEDICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds ARTS COMMISSION OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds 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.
Promedica Health System IncOH22.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Promedica Health System Inc · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo · The Andersons Fund Supporting · Charities Aid Foundation America · Hcr Manor Care Foundation Inc · Jocarno Fund · Hylant Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Toledo · Turner Construction Company 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 organisation 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.
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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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: TOLEDO ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +54% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 344005365 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 TOLEDO ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION, 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
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- 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 Art Iron Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Art Iron 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