· Private foundation
The Mark S Feldstein and Sandra a Feldstein
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k17 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER TOLEDO | $5,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OHIO KENTUCKY | $3,000 |
| PROJECT IAM | $3,000 |
| FOOD FOR THOUGHT | $2,500 |
| THE BECKY WALKER SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP INC | $2,500 |
| MOBILE MEALS | $2,200 |
| TOLEDO HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| TOLEDO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $1,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE OF NORTHWEST OHIO | $1,000 |
| THE ABILITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| SUNSHINE INC OF NW OHIO | $1,000 |
| THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST OHIO | $1,000 |
| LUCAS COUNTY SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $750 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $500 |
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, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of The Mark S Feldstein and Sandra a Feldstein’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 71% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
The Ohio University Foundation5× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +204%- CCCOURAGEOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC3× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +57%
- MMMOBILE MEALS3× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION AND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $15k
- HCHOUSEWARES CHARITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue -3%
- SBSUSAN B KOMAN FOR THE CUREone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
To assist people with disabilities to live, work and socialize within a fully accessible community.
See schedule oto care for and to provide temporary and indefinite shelter and care for homeless and abandoned dogs and cats by promoting and sponsoring animal welfare education programs, adoptions, preventive veterinary care, and a…
To advocate for an equitable ohio for people with disabilities.
Align the life sciences ecosystem in the state of ohio, building collaborative partnerships, and advocating for policies and funding that will help to accelerate life science priorities and drive sustainable economic growth.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
The mission of ohio life sciences foundation is to accelerate bioscience discovery, innovation and commercialization of global value, driving economic growth, company attraction, improving workforce training and improved quality of life in…
To receive gifts, devices, bequests and contributions to hold, use, and invest to ultimately distribute to the supported organization (mobile meals of toledo, inc.) or any other exempt organization to further their exempt purpose.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
As mandated by the federal older americans act and ohio law, the mission of the long term care ombudsman program is to seek the resolution of problems and advocate for the rights of the home care consumers and residents of long- term care…
Empower everyone to explore the sciences through interactive exhibits and educational programming.
The toledo police foundation, inc. is a non-profit organization whose mission is to help the toledo police department reach its full potential while strengthening ties within the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toledo Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bissell Pet Foundation. 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 31 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 118 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 Ohio University Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOUSEWARES CHARITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SYLVANIA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AURORA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO CLASSIC INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN ↗
- Who funds ANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds THE BECKY WALKER SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SYLVANIA PREVENTION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Miracle League of Northwest Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds BITTERSWEET INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds PARKERS PURPOSE ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF TOLEDO INC ↗
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 · United Way of Greater Toledo · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Toledo Classic Inc · Hylant Family Foundation Inc · Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · Promedica Health System Inc · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund · Jocarno Fund
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 Mark S Feldstein and Sandra a Feldstein 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.
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.