· Private foundation
Orser Jonathan Charitable Pfdn
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOLEDO SYMPHONY | $25,000 |
| TOLEDO ZOO | $10,000 |
| TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART | $7,500 |
| NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $5,000 |
| STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF AMER | $5,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| BROOKS SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| WGTE | $2,500 |
| ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $1,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| THE TOLEDO AREA HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- TTTHE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY5× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +41%
- BSBROOKS SCHOOL5× · 2019–2025 · $20k · revenue +78%
- TTTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- GCGLASS CITY RIVER WALLone grant, 2021 · $1k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NW OHIO INCone grant, 2019 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Toledo Museum of Art and 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.
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 64 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 45 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
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 THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Toledo Jazz Orchestra ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EXCHANGE CLUB 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 · The O-I Charities Foundation · Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Orser Jonathan Charitable Pfdn 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.
- New World Symphony 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.