· Private foundation
Dana Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO | $100,000 |
| TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,630 |
| IMAGINATION STATION | $10,000 |
| LOTT INDUSTRIES | $10,000 |
| TOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $6,318 |
| K9S ON THE FRONT LINE | $5,906 |
| HENRY COUNTY HELPING HAND INC | $5,589 |
| HENDERSON CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $5,174 |
| CONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS | $5,000 |
| ST PAUL'S COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOC OF GREATER TOLEDO | $5,000 |
| HOOVES | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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 MUSEUM OF ART4× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +103%
- TTTHE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY3× · 2021–2023 · $89k · revenue +18%
- LILOTT INDUSTRIES INC4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- TTTHE TOLEDO SYMPHONYone grant, 2021 · $20k
- AABLELAWOone grant, 2022 · $15k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS OF WESTERN LAKE ERIEone grant, 2024 · $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.
Thomas university is an independent, not for profit, institution of higher education with undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for successful careers and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing and complex world.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
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…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
To improve the human condition through excellence in patient care and medical discovery.
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Ohio christian university (ocu) is committed to offering a complete education that develops students intellectually, professionally, and spiritually. (continued on schedule o)ocu offers degree programs designed to equip students to become…
Supporting the university of toledo by fostering a spirit of loyalty among its alumni.
Educate students by linking knowledge to professional practice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Toledo Foundation and the most unlike its peers is K9s On the Front Line. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
76 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. 76 of the 146 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LOTT INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD GRIEF OF NORTHWEST OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF TOLEDO INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds K9s ON THE FRONT LINE ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds Henry County Helping Hand Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED FUND OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BITTERSWEET INC ↗
- Who funds THE VICTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Toledo GROWs Inc ↗
- Who funds Open Door Ministry Inc ↗
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 · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · United Way of Greater Toledo · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · Toledo Classic Inc · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund · George Isaac Foundation · Promedica Health System Inc · Elsie and Harry Baumker Charitable Foundation 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 Dana Charitable 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.
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% 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.
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