· Public charity
Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc
To operate a workplace giving federation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $70,446 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $102,247 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $31,801 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Make a Wish Foundation | $23,819 |
| MLK Kitchen for the Poor | $12,549 |
| Nature's Nursery Center | $10,220 |
| Maumee Valley Save a Pet | $6,165 |
| Toledo Animal Rescue | $6,114 |
| Wood County Humane Society | $5,987 |
| Bethany House | $5,592 |
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 (FY17–19, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN8× · 2017–2024 · $174k · revenue +39%
- NNNATURES NURSERY CENTER FOR WILDLIFE REHAB & CONSR8× · 2017–2024 · $89k · revenue +186%
- MVMAUMEE VALLEY SAVE A PET8× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- TATOLEDO ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
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.
Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.
The society is dedicated to promoting care for all animals. we strive to never turn away sick or injured. our goal is to bring about a world where humane societies are no longer necessary.
Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.
Animal shelter that focuses on adoption, spay and neuter, and other humane education with the goal of making euthanasia of healthy animals unnecessary.
We meet the immediate needs of animals in our community through individualized care, life saving solutions, and temporary shelter en-route to a safe, compatible home. we envision a community where all animals are valued, protected and have…
Prevention of cruelty to animals by providing care and medical treatment for abandoned animals until they can be placed in a good home.
To shelter and find forever homes for homeless dogs and cats.
Humane treatment of stray dogs and cats
To be a resource as a no-kill pet rescue service
Rescue and adopt domestic animals. Low cost spay and neuter programs. Prevent animal abuse.
Animal shelter - provide a safe haven for animals without homes.
The mission of the Marion County Humane Society is to provide shelter for abandoned, abused, neglected and home-less animals to work with our rescued animals until we can find forever loving homes for them and to work within the community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and the most unlike its peers is Hannah's Socks Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING KITCHEN FOR ↗
- Who funds NATURES NURSERY CENTER FOR WILDLIFE REHAB & CONSR ↗
- Who funds MAUMEE VALLEY SAVE A PET ↗
- Who funds WOOD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN SHELTERS ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds BEACH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HANNAH'S SOCKS INC ↗
- Who funds COLLINGWOOD ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · John & Virginia Hankison Foundation · The Stranahan Supporting Organization · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc 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.
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.
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