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Donald L Solomon Fund at a glance

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Donald L Solomon Fund

To support and further the purposes of the jewish federation of greater toledo.

$96k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$26k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$442kReligion$200kEducation$76kCrime & Legal$40kInternational$10kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $68,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $96,034 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $27,534 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER TOLEDO$26,000
CHABAD HOUSE OF TOLEDO$24,000
BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY$7,500
OHIO UNIVERSITY$6,000
EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%SHALEM FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%YESHIVA BIRKHET MOSHE: $5k → 20%EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER TOLEDO: $165k → 18%OHIO UNIVERSITY: $6k → 22%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%SHALEM FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%YESHIVA BIRKHET MOSHE: $5k → 20%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER TOLEDO: $52k → 18%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%SHALEM FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER TOLEDO: $37k → 18%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%SHALEM FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER TOLEDO: $37k → 18%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM: $15k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER TOLEDO: $26k → 18%BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM: $11k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER TOLEDO: $26k → 18%BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM: $10k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER TOLEDO: $26k → 18%BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM: $5k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER TOLEDO: $26k → 18%BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM: $5k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER TOLEDO: $26k → 18%AMERIAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $5k → 17%TEMPLE SHOMER EMUNIM: $11k → 18%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $6k → 17%CHABAD HOUSE OF TOLEDO: $27k → 18%CHABAD HOUSE OF TOLEDO: $24k → 18%CHABAD HOUSE OF TOLEDO: $24k → 18%CHABAD HOUSE OF TOLEDO: $24k → 18%CHABAD HOUSE OF TOLEDO: $18k → 18%CHABAD HOUSE OF TOLEDO: $18k → 18%CHABAD HOUSE OF TOLEDO: $6k → 18%CHABAD HOUSE OF TOLEDO: $24k → 18%CHABAD HOUSE OF TOLEDO: $24k → 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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$285k · 4 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -39% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$285k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-39%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
PhilanthropyCrime & LegalInternationalEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • CC
    CONGREGATION CHABAP HOUSE-LUBAUITCH OF GREATER TOLEDO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $189k
  • BT
    BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    5× · 2017–2023 · $46k · revenue +43%
  • TS
    The Shalem Foundation
    4× · 2018–2023 · $40k · revenue +193%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TEMPLE
    one grant, 2024 · $11k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -39%
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
Sherit Isroel
—
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
7
The Jerusalem Connection
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8
Friends of Institute for Zionist

The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…

International
9
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
10
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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11
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Better Future for Israel

To strengthen israel's future in these areas: 1)providing new immigrants with assistance in a few key areas: representing them as they navigate government ministries and assisting them with their challenges as new immigrants to israel.…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo; the most unlike its peers is Bowling Green State University Alumni Association. 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER TOLEDO: $421,387 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER TOLEDOBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $46,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA+1 more: $6,000 · PhilanthropyCONGREGATION CHABAP HOUSE-LUBAUITCH OF GREATER TOLEDO: $188,501 · OtherCONGREGATION CHABAP HOUSE-LUBA…THE TEMPLE: $11,000 · Other+2 more: $11,000 · OtherThe Shalem Foundation: $40,000 · Crime & LegalPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $26,400 · EducationBOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · EducationYESHIVA YISMACH MOSHE: $10,100 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$473,387Other$210,501Crime & Legal$40,000Education$33,900International$10,100Arts & Culture$5,000

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER TOLEDO: $421,387 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $46,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $26,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA YISMACH MOSHE: $10,100 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetBOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $5,000 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Donald L Solomon Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald L Solomon Fund. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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How do I get to Donald L Solomon Fund?

Find your warmest path to Donald L Solomon Fund 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 12 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 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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