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The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo I

To develop and promote arts in the greater toledo community

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$188k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Arts & Culture$3.4MAnimals$169kYouth Development$34kHuman Services$10k
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 29 grants below total $1,009,756 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,579,176 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $569,420 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 $10k11 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $243k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $688k
$12,640
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART$187,500
PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO$125,140
SOFIA QUINTERO ART AND CULTURAL CNETER$125,000
TOLEDO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS$75,000
TOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$75,000
GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY$50,140
TOLEDO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER$50,140
TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$37,640
TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION$37,500
CHILDREN'S THEATRE WORKSHOP$37,500
TOLEDO SCIENCE CENTER$25,000
DOWNTOWN SYLVANIA ASSOCIATION CHARITIES INC$18,890
NEW WORKS WRITERS SERIES$18,750
INCLUSIVE FOR WOMEN INC$18,750
MIDSTORY$12,640
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%LOTT INDUSTRIES: $10k → 18%NUESTRA GENTE COMMUNITY PROJECTS INC: $44k → 18%NUESTRA GENTE COMMUNITY PROJECTS INC: $10k → 18%NUESTRA GENTE COMMUNITY PROJECTS INC: $6k → 18%INCLUSIVE FOR WOMEN INC: $25k → 18%PEACE & HEALING LLC: $24k → 18%INCLUSIVE FOR WOMEN INC: $19k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 30 repeat orgs$304k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
15

Total granted

$3.3M
$298k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-2%

Still filing today

87%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • SQ
    SOFIA QUINTERO ART AND CULTURAL CENTER
    3× · 2021–2024 · $235k · revenue +70%
  • TC
    TOLEDO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $231k · revenue +9%
  • TG
    THE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $225k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • PH
    Peace & Healing
    one grant, 2022 · $24k · 47% of their budget
  • IB
    ISSUE BOX THEATRE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $18k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo I

To develop and promote arts in the greater toledo community

Arts & Culture
2
Gahanna Area Arts Council

he Gahanna area arts council connects and enriches our community through participation in and engagement with the arts.

Arts & Culture
3
Toledo Band Aid
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4
Columbus Cultural Youth Orchestra
Arts & Culture
5
The Toledo Ballet Association Inc

The Toledo Ballet Association is a non-profit organization whose primary purpose is to increase interest and support for the arts through dance. This is accomplished through community education, studio instruction and major performances.

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6
The Ohio Art League

Support of artists

Arts & Culture
7
Toledo Community Theatre Guild D/B/a Wieting Theatre

To operate and run a community theatre.

Arts & Culture
8
Center for Applied Theater and Active Culture

To establish a forum for community engagement and educational outreach through collaboration with emerging and established artists and the creation, production and presentation of a diverse array of theatre, music, dance, and exhibitions…

Arts & Culture
9
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
10
State of the Arts Productions
Arts & Culture
11
Geauga Lyric Theatre Guild

To provide arts education and performance opportunities to people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities in a celebration of the power of art to inspire, transform, and elevate the quality of community life.

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12
Toledo Helps Ukraine

Raise funds to support ukraine

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toledo Cultural Arts Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nuestra Gente Community Projects Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%11%<5yr12%14%5–10yr17%24%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr14%5%35–55yr20%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%5%<5yr12%3%5–10yr17%12%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr14%8%35–55yr20%46%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/46
the rest of the field
13%
294/2,318

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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 46 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
21/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART — $337,500 · Arts & CultureTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ARTTOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $337,500 · Arts & CultureTOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSSOFIA QUINTERO ART AND CULTURAL CENTER — $235,000 · Arts & CultureSOFIA QUINTERO ART AND CULTURAL CENTERTOLEDO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC — $231,390 · Arts & CultureTOLEDO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INCPUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO — $225,140 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIOTOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $168,750 · Arts & CultureTOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATIONCHILDREN'S THEATRE WORKSHOP OF TOLEDO — $168,750 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S THEATRE WORKSHOP OF TOLEDOTOLEDO SCIENCE CENTER — $112,500 · Arts & Culture+14 more — $345,530 · Arts & Culture+14 moreTOLEDO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $337,500 · OtherTOLEDO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSTHE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $225,140 · OtherTHE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SO…UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO — $150,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TOLEDONEW WORKS WRITER SERIES — $43,750 · OtherBALLET THEATRE OF TOLEDO INC — $40,140 · OtherFAMED FOUNDATION — $33,750 · OtherCLARENCE SMITH COMMUNITY CHORUS INC — $32,640 · Other+7 more — $64,606 · Other+7 moreNUESTRA GENTE COMMUNITY PROJECTS INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesMIDSTORY — $47,640 · Human ServicesINCLUSIVE FOR WOMEN INC — $43,750 · Human ServicesPeace & Healing — $24,000 · Human ServicesLOTT INDUSTRIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $168,890 · AnimalsDOWNTOWN SYLVANIA ASSOCIATION CHARITIES INC — $43,890 · Community ImprovementBEINSTRUMENTAL FOUNDATION — $43,750 · EducationBELIEVE CENTER INC — $34,000 · Youth DevelopmentToledo Choral Society — $33,750 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$2,162,060Other$927,526Human Services$185,390Animals$168,890Community Improvement$43,890Education$43,750Youth Development$34,000Philanthropy$33,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART — $337,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $337,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSOFIA QUINTERO ART AND CULTURAL CENTER — $235,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetTOLEDO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC — $231,390 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetTHE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $225,140 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO — $225,140 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $168,890 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $168,750 over 2y, 12% of budgetCHILDREN'S THEATRE WORKSHOP OF TOLEDO — $168,750 over 2y, 32% of budgetTOLEDO SCIENCE CENTER — $112,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCOLLINGWOOD ARTS CENTER INC — $66,390 over 3y, 18% of budgetNUESTRA GENTE COMMUNITY PROJECTS INC — $60,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetGreat Lakes Jazz Society Corp — $56,250 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetTOLEDO REPERTOIRE COMPANY — $50,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetMIDSTORY — $47,640 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetDOWNTOWN SYLVANIA ASSOCIATION CHARITIES INC — $43,890 over 2y, 16% of budgetINCLUSIVE FOR WOMEN INC — $43,750 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetBEINSTRUMENTAL FOUNDATION — $43,750 over 3y, 50% of budgetBALLET THEATRE OF TOLEDO INC — $40,140 over 3y, 11% of budgetBELIEVE CENTER INC — $34,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COMMISION — $33,890 over 2y, 20% of budgetToledo Choral Society — $33,750 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE VILLAGE PLAYERS INC — $26,250 over 2y, 25% of budgetPeace & Healing — $24,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetTOLEDO JAZZ FESTIVAL — $23,750 over 2y, 14% of budgetTOLEDO INTEGRATED MEDIA EDUCATION INC — $17,500 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetTHE LIBBEY HOUSE FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetGlacity Theatre Collective Inc — $16,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetLOTT INDUSTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN LEGACY PROJECT OF NORTHWEST OHIO — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetUNRULY ARTS — $7,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMASTERWORKS CHORALE — $7,500 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetBlack Swamp Players — $6,250 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLIMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $6,250 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Toledo Community Foun…The O-I Charities Fou…The Andersons Fund Su…Walter E Terhune Memo…Promedica Health Syst…John Henry Eldred Jr …Elsie and Harry Baumk…Andersons FoundationDana Charitable Found…Tr Ua Toledo Communit…The Oswald Supporting…The LaValley Foundati…
Toledo Community Foundation IncOH56.4× affinity26 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 · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund · Promedica Health System Inc · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Elsie and Harry Baumker Charitable Foundation Inc · Andersons Foundation · Dana Charitable Foundation · Tr Ua Toledo Community Foundation- Donor · The Oswald Supporting Organization · The LaValley 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 The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo I 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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