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The LaValley Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $473k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $798k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Catholic Community Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| Hope Learning Academy | $400,000 |
| Toledo Zoo | $122,800 |
| St Ursula Academy | $105,000 |
| Cherry Street Mission Ministies | $100,000 |
| St Francis de Sales School | $100,000 |
| Compassion Health Toledo | $100,000 |
| Learning Club of Toledo The | $70,000 |
| Notre Dame Academy | $50,000 |
| Mom's House | $50,000 |
| Notre Dame Sisters of | $50,000 |
| Northwest Ohio Food Bank | $50,000 |
| Toledo Alliance for Performing Arts | $40,000 |
| YMCA & JCC of Greater Toledo | $25,000 |
| Justice for All Campaign | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $237k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
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.
73 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 7 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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× · 2020–2024 · $556k · revenue +50%
- LCLearning Club of Toledo4× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +14% · 32% of their budget
- TOTOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- PGProMedica Goerlich Centerone grant, 2022 · $300k
- DODiocese of Toledo-Generalone grant, 2021 · $200k
- HLHOPE Learning Academy Foundationone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -73% · 73% of their budget
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.
Toledo Legal Aid Society provides legal representation for indigent clients that are charged with criminal, traffic, or juvenile offenses for which the penalty or any possible adjudication includes the potential loss of liberty.
To assist people with disabilities to live, work and socialize within a fully accessible community.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.
To further the educational purposes of toledo christian schools, inc.
To ensure that all youth ages 0-5 have access to quality early learning programs and services regardless of race sex economic status or geographical location and the ability and the support necessary to enter kindergarten ready to learn…
Women's health clinic focusing on helping at-risk parents deal with issues related to prenancy and parenting.
Through a spectrum of programming for adults and high school students, lt offers individuals the opportunity to become more confident leaders, connect with the community, grow stronger in self-awareness, and serve in ways that are…
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
Toledo GROWs nurtures the joy of growing. Toledo GROWs educates the community about the value of local nutritious food. Our active urban farm and support for community gardens promote healthy eating and creates a region alive with gardens.
Recognizing that we are all created in god's image, our mission is to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in reaching their greatest level of independence in a caring community of respect, dignity and…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Toledo Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is Butterflies 15. 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 52 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 109 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 CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST OHIO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Learning Club of Toledo ↗
- Who funds LOURDES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Compassion Health Toledo ↗
- Who funds Open Door Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE ARC ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MAREDA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEAT OF TOLEDO INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE MONTESSORI ↗
- Who funds WATTS OF LOVE ↗
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 · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · Promedica Health System Inc · United Way of Greater Toledo · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · Andersons Foundation · Tr Ua Toledo Community Foundation- Donor · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund · Hylant Family Foundation Inc
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 LaValley Foundation 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.
- Food for the Poor 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.
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