· Private foundation
Carolyn and Herbert Metzger Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $586k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $215,000 |
| Toledo Zoological Society | $100,535 |
| Dixon Center for Military and Veter | $100,000 |
| Hope Lutheren Church | $70,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Toledo | $50,000 |
| Ability Center of Greater Toledo | $50,000 |
| Sylvania Schools Foundation | $30,000 |
| Toledo Symphony | $20,000 |
| Toledo Children's Hospital | $20,000 |
| Toledo Day Nursery | $15,000 |
| Bethany House | $15,000 |
| Mom's House | $15,000 |
| Flag City Honor Flights | $15,000 |
| Valentine Theater | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $289k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
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 +71% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- TTTHE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY6× · 2018–2024 · $776k · revenue +48%
- FOFLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC6× · 2018–2023 · $328k · revenue +3%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION7× · 2018–2024 · $190k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $50k
- GSGirl Scouts of Western Ohioone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -8%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Empower everyone to explore the sciences through interactive exhibits and educational programming.
To solve critical business challenges in order to create vibrant economic opportunities for all in our region.
To secure the long-term future of the zoo, including its animal collections, education and conservation programs, magnificent gardens and historic wpa-era buildings.
The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…
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.
To develop and promote arts in the greater toledo community
To further the educational purposes of toledo christian schools, inc.
To educate, entertain, and inform the general public about aircraft, the capabilities of various types of aircraft, aviation, and aviation history through an airshow and operation held at the toledo express airport
Partners in education's mission is to provide evidence-based programs, in collaboration with schools and community partners, to empower students with the skills they need to read, succeed, and thrive. the organization promotes student…
To provide support for community service work for the handicapped, the youth, and the elderly
Maumee valley country day school cultivates an inclusive community of intellectual excellence where learners creatively explore their passions and boldly inspire positive change in the world.
Provide outstanding service to our members and to assist them in serving the legal profession and the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Toledo Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 32 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 TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds MOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds FISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TUTORSMART ↗
- Who funds SYLVANIA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLAG CITY HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Western Ohio ↗
- Who funds THE VICTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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 Oswald Supporting Organization · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · Dana Charitable Foundation · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Landman-Goldman Foundation · The LaValley Foundation · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · George Isaac Foundation · Promedica Health System Inc
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 Carolyn and Herbert Metzger 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.
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% of income from government
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.