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Charles Loehr Charitable Trust at a glance

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Charles Loehr Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$7k
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.

Human Services$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$44kScience & Tech$42kRecreation & Sports$35kAnimals$33kHealth$28kHousing & Shelter$24kFood & Nutrition$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,879
Median grant
3
States reached
$848k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC$7,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HEARTLAND$7,000
ADAPTIVE SPORTS OHIO$6,500
HEALTHCARE 2000 COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC$5,000
CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME OF OHIO$4,879
VANTAGE AGING$4,000
Wayne Center for the Arts$3,000
SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP$3,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION$2,000
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 (FY18–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $2k → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $8k → 10%VANTAGE AGING: $8k → 13%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $7k → 10%VANTAGE AGING: $4k → 13%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $6k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 10%CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME OF OHIO: $5k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $3k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $3k → 10%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$299k · 16 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
7

Total granted

$299k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+81%

Still filing today

69%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEmploymentHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +67%
  • AS
    ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO
    6× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +56%
  • WC
    WAYNE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $33k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES CO
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -10%
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS LAKE ERIE
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +81%
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
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
2
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
3
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy
4
Akron Community Foundation

To identify, activate, and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community. we accomplish this by:- building a permanent source of charitable funding- cultivating strategic…

Philanthropy
5
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
6
Hancock-Hardin-Wyandot-Putnam Community Action Commission

To reduce the conditions of poverty by providing comprehensive services to improve lives.to accomplish the mission, hhwp cac will collect and analyze data on the nature of poverty and the existing resources in the area. hhwp cac will…

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7
Ohio Hills Health Services

Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…

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8
Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
Hospice of Northwest Ohio

Hospice of northwest ohio provides specialized medical emotional and spiritual care to people of all ages - and their families - living with any end-stage illness in northwest ohio and southeast michigan

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10
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…

Philanthropy
11
Hospice of Central Ohio

Patients of hospice of central ohio receive compassionate, individualized end-of-life care. their desires guide the physical, emotional, and spiritual care support we provide. members of our community, patient's families, children, and…

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12
Conference of Western Wayne

All of the expenses of the cww are for the purpose of improving local government and administration through cooperative efforts. all services are provided to various communities in western wayne county, michigan.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Corporation; the most unlike its peers is A Whole Community 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

17 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. 17 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $24,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYTHE SALVATION ARMY: $18,069 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTHE SALVATION ARMY OF WOOSTER: $14,900 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY OF WOOSTERA WHOLE COMMUNITY INC: $10,000 · OtherA WHOLE COMMUNITY INCAMERICAN RED CROSS OF HEARTLAND: $7,000 · OtherPEOPLE TO PEOPLE: $6,960 · OtherWAYNE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,739 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of Wooster Inc: $10,800 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of Wooster IncAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $10,000 · OtherAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANKUNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES CO: $6,000 · Other+8 more: $37,000 · Other+8 moreNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $49,600 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INVENTOR…WAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $6,219 · Arts & CultureWAYNE CENTER FOR …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $32,130 · Human ServicesAmerican Nationa…VANTAGE AGING: $12,000 · Human ServicesVANTAGE AGINGCHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF OHIO INC: $4,879 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN CHILDR…CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $2,000 · Human ServicesADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO: $35,246 · Recreation & SportsADAPTIVE SP…WAYNE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $33,208 · AnimalsWAYNE COUN…GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WAYNE & HOLMES COUNTIES INC: $16,500 · EmploymentHEALTHCARE 2000 COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $14,000 · Health
Other$150,468Arts & Culture$55,819Human Services$51,009Recreation & Sports$35,246Animals$33,208Employment$16,500Health$14,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $49,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO: $35,246 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $33,208 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $32,130 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WAYNE & HOLMES COUNTIES INC: $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHCARE 2000 COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVANTAGE AGING: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Wooster Inc: $10,800 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA WHOLE COMMUNITY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetWAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $6,219 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES CO: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VILLAGE NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF OHIO INC: $4,879 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFECARE HOSPICE: $4,000 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.

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.

Wayne County Communit…Charles W & Laura B F…Ralph R and Grace B J…Donald & Alice Noble …United Way of Wayne a…Austin-Bailey Health …The Westfield Insuran…Wooster Elks Lodge No…Seaman Family Foundat…Romich FoundationSisters of Charity Fo…Donor Advised Charita…
Wayne County Community FoundationOH30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wayne County Community Foundation · Charles W & Laura B Frick Irr · Ralph R and Grace B Jones Foundation · Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc · United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Wooster Elks Lodge No 1346 Charitable Fund · Seaman Family Foundation Trust · Romich Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Charles Loehr Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles Loehr Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 28 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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