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Cannaley Foundation at a glance

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Cannaley Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$50kEducation$30kReligion$11kCommunity Improvement$4kAnimals$1kHuman Services$750Health$400Housing & Shelter$300Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
1
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST RICHARDS CHURCH$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%HEARTBEAT OF TOLEDO: $100 → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15k · 7 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +265% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
15

Total granted

$15k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+265%
+34%

Still filing today

29%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementAnimalsHealthCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LF
    LITTLE FLOWER CATHOLIC CHURCH
    6× · 2017–2024 · $8k
  • SR
    SWANTON ROTARY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +265% · 36% of their budget
  • BT
    BLESSED TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCH
    5× · 2017–2024 · $3k

Funded once

  • MT
    METROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +990%
  • GR
    GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE RESOURCE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +7%
  • GG
    GOOD GRIEF
    one grant, 2022 · $500
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Toledo Helps Ukraine

Raise funds to support ukraine

Human Services
2
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
3
Ray T Kest Old Newsboys Goodfellow Memorial Scholarship Fund
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4
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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5
Toledo Scholarship and Academic

Academic scholarships

Education
6
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
7
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
8
The College of Wooster

The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…

Education
9
Hathaway Brown School

The school is dedicated to excellence in the education of girls. our true mission, as reflected in our motto "non scholae sed vitae discimus," is learning & preparation for life.

Education
10
University of Toledo Alumni Association

Supporting the university of toledo by fostering a spirit of loyalty among its alumni.

Education
11
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
12
University of Dayton

The university of dayton is a top-tier independent, catholic research educational institution founded in 1850. the primary exempt purpose is providing post secondary education through undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and continuing…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Toledo Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Golden Retriever Rescue Resource Inc. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherMETROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATIONLITTLE FLOWER CATHOLIC CHURCH: $7,700 · OtherLITTLE FLOWER CATHOLIC CHURCHBLESSED TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $2,850 · Other+13 more: $1,970 · OtherHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $30,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE+1 more: $100 · EducationSWANTON ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $3,800 · Community ImprovementGOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE RESOURCE INC: $1,025 · AnimalsST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $300 · HealthStudents for Life of America Inc: $200 · Civil RightsHEARTBEAT OF TOLEDO INC: $100 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CAMPUS MINISTRIES INC D/B/A NEWMAN CONNECTION: $60 · Religion
Other$62,520Education$30,100Community Improvement$3,800Animals$1,025Health$300Civil Rights$200Human Services$100Religion$60

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSWANTON ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $3,800 over 4y, 36% of budgetGOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE RESOURCE INC: $1,025 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTOLEDO COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTBEAT OF TOLEDO INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CAMPUS MINISTRIES INC D/B/A NEWMAN CONNECTION: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds METROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SWANTON ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE RESOURCE INC ↗
  • Who funds TOLEDO COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEARTBEAT OF TOLEDO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CAMPUS MINISTRIES INC D/B/A NEWMAN CONNECTION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Toledo Community Foun…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Toledo Community Foundation IncOH13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cannaley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cannaley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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