· Public charity
Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc
To operate a workplace giving federation.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
11 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northwest Ohio Community Shares Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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