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Elsie and Harry Baumker Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Elsie and Harry Baumker Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$122k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$319kEducation$227kHealth$134kHuman Services$111kAnimals$60kHousing & Shelter$60kYouth Development$55kEnvironment$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOLEDO SYMPHONY$7,000
TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART$7,000
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE$7,000
THE TOLEDO ZOO$6,000
BITTERSWEET INC$6,000
TOLEDO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS$5,000
OPEN ARMS COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
IMAGINATION STATION$5,000
BEREA COLLEGE$5,000
THE SIGHT CENTER$5,000
NEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN$5,000
THE LEARNING CLUB$5,000
SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES$5,000
DIABETES YOUTH SERVICES$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 (FY17–24, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLED: $6k → 18%THE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLED: $6k → 18%OHIO LIVING HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE: $5k → 15%OHIO LIVING HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE: $5k → 15%OHIO LIVING HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE: $5k → 15%NEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN: $5k → 16%OHIO LIVING HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE: $5k → 15%NEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN: $5k → 16%OHIO LIVING HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE: $5k → 15%OHIO LIVING HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE: $5k → 15%NEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN: $5k → 16%OHIO LIVING HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE: $4k → 15%NEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN: $5k → 16%NEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN: $5k → 16%DIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $6k → 18%DIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 18%DIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 18%MONROE ST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 18%DIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 18%DIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $4k → 18%DIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $4k → 18%SUNSHINE FOUNDATION: $7k → 18%SUNSHINE FOUNDATION: $6k → 18%SUNSHINE FOUNDATION: $5k → 18%SUNSHINE FOUNDATION: $5k → 18%SUNSHINE FOUNDATION: $5k → 18%SUNSHINE FOUNDATION: $5k → 18%SUNSHINE FOUNDATION: $5k → 18%TOLEDO DAY NURSERY: $5k → 18%TOLEDO DAY NURSERY: $5k → 18%TOLEDO DAY NURSERY: $5k → 18%TOLEDO DAY NURSERY: $5k → 18%TOLEDO DAY NURSERY: $5k → 18%TOLEDO DAY NURSERY: $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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$972k · 39 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
9

Total granted

$972k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
-2%

Still filing today

54%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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
    8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +34%
  • AL
    ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +152%
  • TT
    THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • TA
    TOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR PERFORMING ART
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • TA
    TOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERF ARTS
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -34%
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 Toledo Alumni Association

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

Education
2
The Toledo Legal Aid Society

Toledo Legal Aid Society provides legal representation for indigent clients that are charged with criminal, traffic, or juvenile offenses for which the penalty or any possible adjudication includes the potential loss of liberty.

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3
Toledo Science Center

Empower everyone to explore the sciences through interactive exhibits and educational programming.

Arts & Culture
4
Ohio State Bar Association

The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.

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5
Philanthropy Ohio

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

Philanthropy
6
Ohio Life Sciences Association

Align the life sciences ecosystem in the state of ohio, building collaborative partnerships, and advocating for policies and funding that will help to accelerate life science priorities and drive sustainable economic growth.

Community Improvement
7
Ohio United Way

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

Philanthropy
8
Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce

To solve critical business challenges in order to create vibrant economic opportunities for all in our region.

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9
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
10
University of Toledo Physicians Clinical Faculty Inc

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

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11
The Ohio Academy of Science

The organization's mission is to promote interest in science. this is done through encouraging and assuring the discovery, understanding, dissemination and practice of education, science, mathematics, engineering, technology, or their…

Arts & Culture
12
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Toledo Museum of Art; the most unlike its peers is Toledo Jazz Orchestra. 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

27 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. 27 of the 53 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMAGINATION STATION: $41,500 · OtherIMAGINATION STATIONSYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC: $40,000 · OtherSYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INCTHE VALENTINE THEATER: $36,000 · OtherTHE VALENTINE THEATERBITTERSWEET INC: $35,478 · OtherBITTERSWEET INCSIGHT CENTER: $35,000 · OtherSIGHT CENTERTOLEDO SYMPHONY: $27,000 · OtherTOLEDO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $26,212 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $26,000 · OtherOPEN ARMS COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLE: $24,000 · OtherSUNSET HOUSE: $23,000 · OtherMAUMEE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $22,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $21,300 · OtherTHE LEARNING CLUB: $19,000 · OtherToledo Jazz Orchestra: $19,000 · OtherDOUBLE ARC: $18,000 · Other+16 more: $108,000 · Other+16 moreSUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE FOUNDATIO…OHIO LIVING HOLDINGS: $31,786 · Human ServicesOHIO LIVING HOLDIN…TOLEDO DAY NURSERY: $30,000 · Human ServicesTOLEDO DAY NURSERYDIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $28,500 · Human ServicesDIABETES YOUTH SER…NEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesNEW OPPORTUNITY SC…THE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $12,000 · Human ServicesTHE ABILITY CENTER…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $55,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD COL…BEREA COLLEGE: $38,500 · EducationBEREA COLLEGELearning Club of Toledo: $20,000 · EducationLearning Club o…THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $8,500 · EducationTHE OHIO FOUNDA…THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationREAD FOR LITERACY INC: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $4,500 · EducationTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART: $58,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TOLEDO M…TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $39,000 · Arts & CultureTOLEDO OPERA…TOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $16,000 · Arts & CultureTOLEDO ALLIA…+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $43,000 · AnimalsHUMANE OHIO: $17,321 · AnimalsBLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY: $21,000 · EnvironmentADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO: $3,575 · Recreation & Sports
Other$521,490Human Services$169,786Education$136,500Arts & Culture$116,000Animals$60,321Environment$21,000Recreation & Sports$3,575

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 budgetTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART: $58,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $55,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $43,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $39,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $38,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBITTERSWEET INC: $35,478 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO LIVING HOLDINGS: $31,786 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTOLEDO DAY NURSERY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $28,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetNEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetMAUMEE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $22,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY: $21,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLearning Club of Toledo: $20,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetToledo Jazz Orchestra: $19,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetDOUBLE ARC: $18,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHUMANE OHIO: $17,321 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $8,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONROE STREET NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetREAD FOR LITERACY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAUTISM MODEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO: $3,575 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTOLEDO REPERTOIRE COMPANY: $3,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BITTERSWEET INC ↗
  • Who funds OHIO LIVING HOLDINGS ↗
  • Who funds TOLEDO DAY NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds DIABETES YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds NEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds MAUMEE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds BLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Learning Club of Toledo ↗
  • Who funds Toledo Jazz Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds DOUBLE ARC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE OHIO ↗
  • Who funds TOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
  • Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗

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…Walter E Terhune Memo…Dana Charitable Found…Toledo Community Foun…The Stranahan Support…Robert C and Susan M …Toledo Classic IncUnited Way of Greater…Waite M B-Brand Found…The LaValley Foundati…The Andersons Fund Su…
Toledo Community Foundation IncOH47.9× affinity21 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 · Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund · Dana Charitable Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund · The Stranahan Supporting Organization · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · Toledo Classic Inc · United Way of Greater Toledo · Waite M B-Brand Foundation Tw · The LaValley Foundation · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization

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 Elsie and Harry Baumker Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elsie and Harry Baumker Charitable Foundation Inc. 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%6%13%19%25%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 · 0–25%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Elsie and Harry Baumker Charitable Foundation Inc 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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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