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Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc

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$102k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$70k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$6,165
Largest grant, FY2024
$23,819
Organizations funded a year
4 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$70k14%
FY20234$48k0%
FY20226$67k0%
FY20217$74k0%
FY20207$88k0%
FY20199$100k0%
FY201810$110k0%
FY201710$110kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$224kHealth$179kFood & Nutrition$100kHuman Services$73kCrime & Legal$40kYouth Development$20kHousing & Shelter$20kArts & Culture$11k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & In$173,94480%
Martin Luther King Kitchen For$120,29583%
Natures Nursery Center for Wildlife Rehab & Consr$88,85985%
Maumee Valley Save a Pet$66,38389%
Wood County Humane Society$62,17672%
Franciscan Shelters$49,24671%
Advocates for Basic Legal Equality Inc$40,40850%
Beach House Inc$26,29831%
Hannah's Socks Inc$22,19535%
Collingwood Arts Center Inc$11,31723%
Toledo Animal Shelter Association$6,11411%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & In: $173,944 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMartin Luther King Kitchen For: $120,295 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetNatures Nursery Center for Wildlife Rehab & Consr: $88,859 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetMaumee Valley Save a Pet: $66,383 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetWood County Humane Society: $62,176 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetFranciscan Shelters: $49,246 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetAdvocates for Basic Legal Equality Inc: $40,408 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBeach House Inc: $26,298 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHannah's Socks Inc: $22,195 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCollingwood Arts Center Inc: $11,317 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetToledo Animal Shelter Association: $6,114 over 1y, 1.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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 Foundation IncOH21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Toledo · The O-I Charities Foundation · John & Virginia Hankison Foundation · The Stranahan Supporting Organization · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc?

Find your warmest path to Northwest Ohio Community Shares 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.

About Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc

How much does Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc give?
Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $70,446, out of $102,247 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (34%), Health (27%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
Who are Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Make-A-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & In ($174k), Martin Luther King Kitchen For ($120k), Natures Nursery Center for Wildlife Rehab & Consr ($89k).
Does Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Toledo Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Toledo, The O-I Charities Foundation.
Where is Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc based?
Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc is based in OH.

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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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