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Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$190k
Granted FY2024still arriving
59
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$701kArts & Culture$304kEducation$256kHuman Services$193kHousing & Shelter$187kReligion$151kPhilanthropy$64kHealth$54kOther$0
02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k57 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$500
Median grant
9
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOM'S HOUSE$100,000
GESU CHURCH$13,910
ST FRANCIS DE SALES$6,550
ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEAL$6,100
SFS SCHOLARSHIP FUND$5,193
OBLATES OF ST FRANCIS SOCIETY$5,000
CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,300
CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF TOLEDO$4,150
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION$4,000
COLUMBIA ALUMNI ASSOC SCHOLARSHIP FUND$2,500
CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES$2,500
NDA MAD FOR PLAID SCHOLARSHIP FUND$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION$2,250
SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $54 → 10%SUSIE'S COATS: $250 → 12%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%CHARITY WATER: $560 → 17%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%CHARITY WATER: $360 → 17%CHARITY WATER: $30 → 17%MOM'S HOUSE: $100k → 18%MOM'S HOUSE: $1k → 18%THE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $150 → 18%MOM'S HOUSE: $150 → 18%MONROE STREET NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $50k → 18%US TOGETHER INC: $103 → 18%HEARTBEAT OF TOLEDO: $500 → 18%ST FRANCIS DE SALES: $7k → 18%EAST TOLEDO FAMILY CENTER: $306 → 18%EAST TOLEDO FAMILY CENTER: $150 → 18%EAST TOLEDO FAMILY CENTER: $100 → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 18%YWCA OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $1k → 18%OLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW ASSOCIATION: $500 → 18%BEACH HOUSE INC: $100 → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 66 repeat orgs$194k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
91

Total granted

$1.8M
$164k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+27%

Still filing today

41%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MT
    METROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2022 · $701k · revenue +103%
  • TT
    THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2020–2024 · $249k · revenue +117%
  • MH
    MOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO
    3× · 2020–2024 · $101k · revenue ×15

Funded once

  • MS
    MONROE STREET NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -55%
  • TS
    TOLEDO SYMPHONY
    one grant, 2023 · $21k
  • NO
    NORTHWEST OHIO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -88%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio

The hospital council of northwest ohio is a member-driven organization that represents and advocates on behalf of its member hospitals and health systems, and provides collaborative opportunities to enhance the health status of the…

Health
2
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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3
University of Toledo Physicians Clinical Faculty Inc

To improve the human condition through excellence in patient care and medical discovery.

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4
Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce

To solve critical business challenges in order to create vibrant economic opportunities for all in our region.

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5
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
6
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
7
The Toledo Hospital

As an integral part of promedica health system, inc., we are a valuable community resource providing comprehensive health services with expertise and compassion, and improving the health of those we serve through prevention, education, and…

Health
8
Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank

To enable other community organizations to end hunger. we strive to maximize community resources by effectively obtaining and distributing food through a food collection and distribution system.

Food & Nutrition
9
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
10
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
11
University of Toledo Alumni Association

Supporting the university of toledo by fostering a spirit of loyalty among its alumni.

Education
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toledo Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Gama Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 188 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/73
Grantees still filing
50/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $700,500 · OtherMETROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATIONCENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $106,250 · OtherCENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLGESU CHURCH: $73,005 · OtherGESU CHURCH+142 more: $454,465 · Other+142 moreTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART: $249,250 · Arts & CultureTHE TOLEDO MUS…+3 more: $6,660 · Arts & CultureCHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES: $180,250 · Housing & ShelterCHERRY STR…MOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO: $101,150 · Human ServicesMOM'S HOU…MONROE STREET NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesMONROE ST…CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC …ST FRANCIS DESALES: $6,550 · Human Services+12 more: $6,263 · Human ServicesTOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · PhilanthropyADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $11,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GAMA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO: $1,450 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $6,250 · EducationBowling Green State University Foundation Inc: $3,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,700 · EducationREAD FOR LITERACY INC: $1,600 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,500 · EducationLOURDES UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationTOLEDO TOMORROW: $1,000 · EducationWEST SIDE MONTESSORI: $950 · Education+2 more: $900 · EducationBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $11,650 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,500 · HealthCompassion Health Toledo: $1,000 · HealthTOLEDO LUCAS COUNTY CARENET INC: $1,000 · HealthSARA'S GARDEN: $1,000 · Health+3 more: $1,201 · Health
Other$1,334,220Arts & Culture$255,910Housing & Shelter$180,250Human Services$173,963Philanthropy$33,450Education$17,900Health$17,351

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $700,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART: $249,250 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES: $180,250 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO: $101,150 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMONROE STREET NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF TOLEDO: $17,850 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST OHIO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $11,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST FRANCIS DESALES: $6,550 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $5,200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GAMA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $4,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE COMMUNITIES: $3,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetBowling Green State University Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROMEDICA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetToledo GROWs Inc: $2,625 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREAD FOR LITERACY INC: $1,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC: $1,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOSEPH J & MARIE P SCHEDEL FOUNDATION: $1,550 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO: $1,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOURDES UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOLEDO TOMORROW: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCompassion Health Toledo: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOLEDO LUCAS COUNTY CARENET INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARA'S GARDEN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $960 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE MONTESSORI: $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST TOLEDO FAMILY CENTER INC: $556 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORT MEIGS ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPHEART: $500 over 2y, 3.0% of budget
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 METROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds MOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO ↗
  • Who funds MONROE STREET NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF TOLEDO ↗
  • Who funds TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST OHIO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS DESALES ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GAMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗

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 Foun…The O-I Charities Fou…United Way of Greater…John Henry Eldred Jr …The Andersons Fund Su…The LaValley Foundati…Andersons FoundationToledo Classic IncBon Secours Mercy Hea…The Stranahan Support…Promedica Health Syst…Walter E Terhune Memo…
Toledo Community Foundation IncOH94.9× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · United Way of Greater Toledo · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · The LaValley Foundation · Andersons Foundation · Toledo Classic Inc · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · The Stranahan Supporting Organization · Promedica Health System Inc · Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 188 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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