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Dana Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Dana Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$271k
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$520kArts & Culture$243kHealth$226kEducation$165kHuman Services$121kAnimals$96kFood & Nutrition$73kYouth Development$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k49 grants · $105k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$1,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$371k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS: $5k → 16%PROGRESSIVE DIRECTIONS INC: $1k → 11%JORDAN HACKETT FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%KENTUCKY WOUNDED HEROES: $1k → 15%LINCOLN COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $1k → 18%PROGRESSIVE DIRECTIONS INC: $500 → 11%KENTUCKY WOUNDED HEROES: $1k → 15%LINCOLN COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $1k → 18%LINCOLN COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $1k → 18%ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $5k → 18%VETERANS MATTER: $3k → 18%VETERANS MATTER: $3k → 18%LOTT INDUSTRIES INC: $10k → 18%LOTT INDUSTRIES: $10k → 18%LOTT INDUSTRIES: $10k → 18%LOTT INDUSTRIES: $10k → 18%SUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 18%THE EPILEPSY CENTER OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $3k → 18%THE EPILEPSY CENTER OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $3k → 18%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $5k → 18%ST PAUL'S COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 18%ST PAUL'S COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
MI
MA
SD
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
KY
MD
AR
TN
NC
SC
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 76 repeat orgs$237k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
54

Total granted

$1.4M
$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

57%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TT
    THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART
    4× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +103%
  • TT
    THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $89k · revenue +18%
  • LI
    LOTT INDUSTRIES INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TOLEDO SYMPHONY
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • A
    ABLELAWO
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • AA
    ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION NORTHWEST OHIO
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
Thomas University

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.

Education
2
Delaware Valley University

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…

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3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
5
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
6
University of Toledo Physicians Clinical Faculty Inc

To improve the human condition through excellence in patient care and medical discovery.

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7
Otterbein University

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…

Education
8
Walsh University Inc

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…

Education
9
Loyola University

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…

Education
10
Ohio Christian University

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…

Education
11
University of Toledo Alumni Association

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

Education
12
Tiffin University

Educate students by linking knowledge to professional practice.

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 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.
04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 146 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/76
Grantees still filing
48/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO: $500,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDOTOLEDO ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS: $65,000 · OtherTOLEDO ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTSSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $23,543 · OtherIMAGINATION STATION: $20,000 · OtherTHE TOLEDO SYMPHONY: $20,000 · OtherCONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC: $20,000 · OtherMOBILE MEALS OF TOLEDO INC: $20,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO: $20,000 · Other+86 more: $388,580 · Other+86 moreTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART: $110,144 · Arts & CultureTHE TOLED…TOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTOLEDO AL…TOLEDO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureTOLEDO CU…Riverbend Equine Therapy: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Heart Association Inc: $30,000 · HealthGOOD GRIEF OF NORTHWEST OHIO INC: $22,500 · HealthCOURAGEOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20,000 · HealthK9s ON THE FRONT LINE: $19,081 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $12,300 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,630 · HealthKENDYL AND FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $4,600 · Health+2 more: $5,300 · HealthTHE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $89,421 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF TENNESSEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE: $6,700 · Animals+1 more: $2,900 · AnimalsLOTT INDUSTRIES INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesST PAUL'S COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 · Human Services1MATTERSORG: $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE EPILEPSY CENTER OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $5,000 · Human ServicesTOLEDO DAY NURSERY: $5,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesLINCOLN COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC: $3,925 · Human ServicesKENTUCKY WOUNDED HEROES INC: $3,900 · Human Services+2 more: $4,300 · Human ServicesTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $12,175 · EducationMAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $10,600 · EducationREAD FOR LITERACY INC: $7,500 · EducationTOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationMARY LEE JOHNSTON COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $4,675 · EducationINDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $4,200 · EducationUniversity of Dayton: $3,000 · EducationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $2,750 · EducationIndiana University Foundation: $2,650 · Education+13 more: $6,375 · Education
Philanthropy$500,000Other$577,123Arts & Culture$135,644Health$124,411Animals$99,021Human Services$97,625Education$58,925

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO: $500,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART: $110,144 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $89,421 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLOTT INDUSTRIES INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD GRIEF OF NORTHWEST OHIO INC: $22,500 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCOURAGEOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO: $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF TOLEDO INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetK9s ON THE FRONT LINE: $19,081 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER TOLEDO: $17,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetHenry County Helping Hand Inc: $17,239 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED FUND OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY: $17,118 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE VICTORY CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBITTERSWEET INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION: $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $12,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $12,175 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,630 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $10,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL'S COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTOLEDO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetToledo GROWs Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetREAD FOR LITERACY INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMAUMEE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOpen Door Ministry Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF TENNESSEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE: $6,700 over 3y, 4.8% of budget1MATTERSORG: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHENDERSON CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $5,174 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE EPILEPSY CENTER OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat For Humanity of Henderson: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetERIE SHORES COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOLEDO DAY NURSERY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUNSHINE COMMUNITIES: $5,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetMARY LEE JOHNSTON COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $4,675 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKENDYL AND FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $4,600 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $4,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC: $3,925 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFamily Services Association of Boyle County Inc: $3,925 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetKENTUCKY WOUNDED HEROES INC: $3,900 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHARBOR IMPACT MINISTRIES: $3,250 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetREEDLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION FORMERLY KINGS RIVER CC FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 1.3% 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.

Toledo Community Foun…The O-I Charities Fou…The Andersons Fund Su…John Henry Eldred Jr …United Way of Greater…Robert C and Susan M …Toledo Classic IncBon Secours Mercy Hea…Walter E Terhune Memo…George Isaac Foundati…Promedica Health Syst…Elsie and Harry Baumk…
Toledo Community Foundation IncOH69.8× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dana Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dana Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 146 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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