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Designetics Cares Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$638k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$1.4MHuman Services$412kRecreation & Sports$407kFood & Nutrition$366kCommunity Improvement$306kYouth Development$291kHealth$242kArts & Culture$195kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $372k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
$22,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$59k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Toledo Museum of Art$125,000
YMCA of Greater Toledo YMCA JCC$50,000
Historic South Initiative$50,000
Toledo Christian Schools Inc$35,688
Care for Kids Day Inc$35,000
Connecting Kids to Meals$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
St Ursula Academy$30,000
Childrens Hunger Alliance$28,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Boys Girls Club of Toledo$25,000
St Francis de Sales School$25,000
Notre Dame Academy$25,000
Toledo Classic Inc Marathon Classic$22,200
Toledo Zoological Society$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Adopt America Network: $25k → 18%Adopt America Network: $25k → 18%Adopt America Network: $25k → 18%Adopt America Network: $25k → 18%Adopt America Network: $25k → 18%Friends of Lucas County Childrens S: $4k → 18%Friends of Lucas County Childrens S: $4k → 18%Friends of Lucas County Children Se: $4k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 32 repeat orgs$305k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
9

Total granted

$3.4M
$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+28%

Still filing today

56%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TC
    TOLEDO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $336k · revenue +69%
  • HS
    HISTORIC SOUTH INITIATIVE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +353%
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • RT
    Rattle the StarsMom's House
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • BV
    BELLA VITA NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +490%
  • NO
    Northwest Ohio Classical Academygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +28%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Toledo Day Nursery

To provide children of working and student parents with quality, affordable childcare programs devoted to enhancing the child's educational, social, emotional, and physical development. to provide also the parent with the childcare…

Human Services
2
School Choice Ohio Inc

The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.

Education
3
Central Ohio Youth for Christ Inc

Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…

Youth Development
4
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
5
Heartbeat of Toledo Inc

Heartbeat is a life-affirming organization whose mission is to provide information, support, and resources to help women and men navigate pregnancy decisions, strengthen families, and build healthy relationships.

Human Services
6
Christian Academy Schools Inc

To equip and inspire a new generation of christ-centered leaders.

7
Maumee Valley Country Day School

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.

Education
8
Toledo Christian Schools Foundation

To further the educational purposes of toledo christian schools, inc.

Education
9
Cincinnati Christian Schools Inc

Cincinnati christian schools, partnering with christian families, provides a bible-centered, quality educational program to equip, train, and disciple students to follow christ and impact culture.

Education
10
Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy

Nondemoninational, college preparatory academy that exists to prepare students intellectually and spiritually for success in higher education and to impact the world according to their unique gifts and talents.

Education
11
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

12
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo and the most unlike its peers is Nightingales Harvest. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%4%<5yr12%15%5–10yr17%15%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr20%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%3%<5yr12%5%5–10yr17%13%10–20yr16%2%20–35yr14%42%35–55yr20%35%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
13%
295/2,335

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.

04the grantee network

26 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

St Ursula Academy — $356,800 · OtherSt Ursula AcademyTOLEDO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $336,071 · OtherTOLEDO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INCSt Francis de Sales School — $305,000 · OtherSt Francis de Sales SchoolNotre Dame Academy — $200,000 · OtherNotre Dame AcademyBoys Girls Club of Toledo — $141,250 · OtherBoys Girls Club of ToledoToledo Classic Inc Marathon Classic — $114,300 · OtherST JOHNS HIGH SCHOOL — $105,430 · OtherRattle the StarsMom's House — $100,000 · OtherGODS BEST CREATION INC — $85,735 · Other+27 more — $526,430 · Other+27 moreCONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC — $197,500 · Food & NutritionCONNECTING…CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE — $153,000 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S…FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $255,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHI…CARE FOR KIDS DAY INC — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentCARE FOR …+1 more — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentHISTORIC SOUTH INITIATIVE — $300,000 · Community ImprovementHISTORIC …Compassion Health Toledo — $115,000 · HealthCPC WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE — $60,000 · HealthBELLA VITA NETWORK — $30,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $24,313 · HealthNIGHTINGALES HARVEST — $15,000 · HealthADOPT AMERICA NETWORK — $125,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES — $10,500 · Human ServicesTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART — $135,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,271,016Food & Nutrition$350,500Youth Development$316,000Community Improvement$300,000Health$244,313Human Services$135,500Arts & Culture$135,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTOLEDO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $336,071 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetHISTORIC SOUTH INITIATIVE — $300,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $255,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC — $197,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE — $153,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART — $135,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetADOPT AMERICA NETWORK — $125,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCompassion Health Toledo — $115,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCARE FOR KIDS DAY INC — $60,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCPC WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE — $60,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC — $36,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBELLA VITA NETWORK — $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLOURDES UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $24,313 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNIGHTINGALES HARVEST — $15,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetNorthwest Ohio Classical Academy — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAVENUES FOR AUTISM — $12,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES — $10,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSunbridge Schools — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES — $2,280 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLETS BUILD — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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 TOLEDO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC
  • Who funds HISTORIC SOUTH INITIATIVE
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
  • Who funds CONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE
  • Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds ADOPT AMERICA NETWORK
  • Who funds Compassion Health Toledo
  • Who funds CARE FOR KIDS DAY INC
  • Who funds CPC WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo
  • Who funds SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds BELLA VITA NETWORK
  • Who funds LOURDES UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds NIGHTINGALES HARVEST
  • Who funds Northwest Ohio Classical Academy
  • Who funds AVENUES FOR AUTISM
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES

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.

Toledo Community Foundation IncOH41.7× affinity18 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 · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · The LaValley Foundation · The Trompeter Family Foundation · The Stranahan Supporting Organization · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · George Isaac Foundation · Hylant Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Toledo · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization

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 Designetics Cares 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Designetics Cares Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Designetics Cares 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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