· Private foundation
John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k61 grants · $266k
- $10k–50k72 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HISTORIC SOUTH INITIATIVE | $230,000 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION | $225,000 |
| MAUMEE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $176,000 |
| DAY 52 INC DBA ART TATUM ZONE | $130,000 |
| FAIR HOUSING OPPORTUNITIE OF NORTHWEST OHIO INC DBA THE FAIR HOUSING CENT | $130,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO CO ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER | $107,500 |
| LUCAS COUNTY LAND REVITALIZATION CORPORATION DBA LUCAS COUNTY LAND BANK | $105,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| CONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS | $60,775 |
| EAST TOLEDO FAMILY CENTER | $60,000 |
| TUTORSMART GREATER TOLEDO | $60,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| TOLEDO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER TOLEDO DBA YMCA OF GREATER TOL | $42,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
78 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 91 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- HSHISTORIC SOUTH INITIATIVE3× · 2023–2025 · $295k · revenue +67%
- CSCHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES7× · 2018–2025 · $166k · revenue +7%
- PIPARTNERS IN EDUCATION OF TOLEDO4× · 2022–2025 · $143k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- YYWCAone grant, 2022 · $100k
- TSTOLEDO SCHOOL OF THE ARTSone grant, 2023 · $50k
- CHCompassion Health Toledoone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -26%
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.
Public library
Public lending library
Giving all people opportunities to enrich their lives.
To provide the citizens of butler county with various library services, including lending books, research information, public use of periodicals, and computer services.
Public lending library
Identify, prioritize, provide and continually improve services, educational, self-improvement, leisure opportunities, literary materials, facilities, professional, voluntary and charitable leadership and support.
The mission of onondaga free library is to provide access to all for lifelong learning, innovative programs and services, and to promote the literacy and well being of the community.
Provide library services
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
A welcoming community center that provides information and equitable access to space, collections, materials, programs and services that enrich the quality of life and facilitate lifelong learning.
The elyria public library system will always offer free resources with unlimited possibilities for every person in the community it serves. library resources in all formats will be readily and equitably accessible to all library users. the…
Stark County District Library is an award winning library that consists of Main Library, nine branch libraries and five (5) mobile units that serve over 189,000 cardholders. The Library provides programs and classes for adults, teens and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mobile Meals of Toledo Inc and the most unlike its peers is 577 Foundation. 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 35 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
178 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. 178 of the 543 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SOUTH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MAUMEE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DAY52 INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN EDUCATION OF TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR OF DELTA ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST TOLEDO FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL COUNCIL OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds HOPE TOLEDO SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF TOLEDO INC ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds Toledo GROWs Inc ↗
- Who funds BABY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AO ADVOCATING OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CITY MISSION OF FINDLAY OHIO ↗
- Who funds AURORA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds THE COCOON SHELTER ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY TOLEDO INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN WHOLISTICS ↗
- Who funds LUCAS HOUSING SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA COUNTY FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS COMMISSION OF GREATER TOLEDO I ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · United Way of Greater Toledo · The O-I Charities Foundation · The Stranahan Supporting Organization · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · Promedica Health System Inc · Toledo Classic Inc · The Oswald Supporting Organization · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund
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 John Henry Eldred Jr 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.
- Center for Hope and Safety — 68% of income from government
- 211 Palm BeachTreasure Coast Inc — 17% of income from government
- Dora Public Library — 1% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% 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.