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The Stranahan Supporting Organization

To make grants for charitable purposes consistent with the mission of the toledo community foundation.

$571k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$642kArts & Culture$426kHealth$415kHuman Services$316kHousing & Shelter$281kPhilanthropy$278kAnimals$180kEnvironment$165kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $171k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $400k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARTNERS FOR CLEAN STREAMS INC$50,000
AUTISM MODEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL$50,000
THE FOUNDATION OF THE ISLAMIC CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO INC$50,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF TOLEDO INC$50,000
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION - GREAT LAKES REGIONAL CENTER$50,000
THE FIRST TEE OF LAKE ERIE$50,000
THE 577 FOUNDATION$50,000
HOPE TOLEDO SERVICES$50,000
TOLEDO OPERA$47,500
CONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS$40,000
TOLEDO MUSLIM DOCTORS INITIATIVEHALIM CLINIC$25,000
GREATER TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
EAST TOLEDO FAMILY CENTER$20,000
GOOD GRIEF OF NORTHWEST OHIO$13,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $515k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $30k → 18%MOM'S HOUSE OF TOLEDO: $40k → 18%ADOPT AMERICA NETWORK: $40k → 18%MONROE STREET NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $40k → 18%MONROE STREET NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $27k → 18%DIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $23k → 18%CENTER OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $50k → 18%BEACH HOUSE INC DBA LEADING FAMILIES HOME: $27k → 18%CENTER OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $29k → 18%WATER FOR ISHMAEL: $48k → 18%FOOD FOR THOUGHT TOLEDO INC: $6k → 18%EAST TOLEDO FAMILY CENTER: $20k → 18%ADVOCATING OPPORTUNITY: $50k → 18%ST PAUL'S COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 18%BABY UNIVERSITY: $35k → 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.
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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$995k · 10 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
46

Total granted

$995k
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+24%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $346k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • T
    TUTORSMART
    5× · 2017–2021 · $198k · revenue +146% · 35% of their budget
  • HT
    HOPE TOLEDO SERVICES
    2× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +53%
  • 5F
    577 FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $98k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • PI
    PATHWAY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +37%
  • CH
    Compassion Health Toledo
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -13%
  • AA
    AO ADVOCATING OPPORTUNITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +82%
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
Toledo Day Nursery

To provide children of working and student parents with quality, affordable childcare programs devoted to enhancing the child's educational, social, emotional, and physical development. to provide also the parent with the childcare…

Human Services
2
The Toledo Legal Aid Society

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.

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3
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
4
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
5
Leadership Toledo

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…

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6
Ohio District 5 Area Agency On Aging Inc

The ohio district 5 area agency on aging, inc. provides leadership, collaboration, coordination and services to older adults, people with disabilities, their caregivers and resource networks that support individual choice, independence and…

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7
Ohio Partners for Affordable Energy

To conduct research and educational programs on affordable energy policies, to advocate on behalf of affordable energy policies, and to implement and manage energy efficiency and related programs.

Human Services
8
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

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9
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

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

Human Services
10
Toledo Early Learning Coalition Incorporated

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…

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11
Philanthropy Ohio

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

Philanthropy
12
Ohio United Way

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

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toledo Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is 577 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

64 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. 64 of the 67 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/64
Grantees still filing
41/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

577 FOUNDATION: $97,500 · Other577 FOUNDATIONZEPF CENTER: $87,500 · OtherZEPF CENTERBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION: $49,628 · OtherFAMILY AND CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CENTER: $47,500 · OtherCITY OF TOLEDO: $46,033 · OtherMAUMEE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $45,000 · OtherFRANCISCAN SHELTERS: $41,422 · OtherMARTIN LUTHER KING KITCHEN FOR: $35,000 · OtherPARTNERS FOR CLEAN STREAMS: $85,000 · OtherPARTNERS FOR CLEAN STREAMSAURORA PROJECT INC: $35,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION OF THE ISLAMIC CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE FIRST TEE OF LAKE ERIE: $50,000 · OtherCONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC: $40,000 · Other+12 more: $280,557 · Other+12 moreTUTORSMART: $197,884 · EducationTUTORSMARTHOPE TOLEDO SERVICES: $150,000 · EducationHOPE TOLEDO SERVIC…PATHWAY INC: $50,000 · EducationPATHWAY INCAUTISM MODEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationAUTISM MODEL COMMU…PARTNERS IN EDUCATION OF TOLEDO: $50,000 · EducationPARTNERS IN EDUCAT…THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF …CENTER OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICES: $79,200 · Human ServicesCENTER OF HOPE FAM…MONROE STREET NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $67,018 · Human ServicesMONROE STREET NEIG…AO ADVOCATING OPPORTUNITY INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesAO ADVOCATING OPPO…ST PAUL'S COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesST PAUL'S COMMUNIT…WATER FOR ISHMAEL: $47,500 · Human ServicesWATER FOR ISHMAELMOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO: $40,000 · Human ServicesMOM'S HOUSE INC OF…ADOPT AMERICA NETWORK: $40,000 · Human ServicesADOPT AMERICA NETW…BABY UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · Human ServicesBABY UNIVERSITYTHE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE ABILITY CENTER…BEACH HOUSE INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesDIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $22,500 · Human ServicesEAST TOLEDO FAMILY CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $6,400 · Human ServicesCompassion Health Toledo: $50,000 · HealthCompassion H…NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF TOLEDO INC: $50,000 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD…MEMORYLANE CARE SERVICES: $47,500 · HealthMEMORYLANE C…LUCAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S DRUG ABUSE RESPONSE TEAM INC: $45,000 · HealthLUCAS COUNTY…TOLEDO LUCAS COUNTY CARENET INC: $27,000 · HealthTOLEDO LUCAS…KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $27,000 · HealthKIDNEY FOUND…TOLEDO MUSLIM DOCTORS INITIATIVE: $25,000 · HealthTOLEDO MUSLI…THOMAS M WERNERT CENTER: $25,000 · HealthTHOMAS M WER…OhioGuidestone: $20,714 · HealthOhioGuidesto…NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN: $14,725 · HealthGOOD GRIEF OF NORTHWEST OHIO INC: $13,000 · HealthTOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $278,481 · PhilanthropyTOLEDO COMM…AVENUES FOR AUTISM: $47,500 · PhilanthropyAVENUES FOR…SOFIA QUINTERO ART AND CULTURAL CENTER: $85,000 · Arts & CultureSOFIA QUI…THE ARTS COMMISSION OF GREATER TOLEDO I: $67,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS …TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $47,500 · Arts & CultureTOLEDO OP…UNRULY ARTS: $45,390 · Arts & CultureUNRULY AR…CHILDREN'S THEATRE WORKSHOP OF TOLEDO: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'…+1 more: $7,500 · Arts & CultureBLACK SWAMP BIRD OBSERVATORY: $82,500 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $62,970 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE: $48,100 · AnimalsNATURES NURSERY CENTER FOR WILDLIFE REHAB & CONSR: $35,000 · Animals
Other$990,140Education$527,884Human Services$514,618Health$344,939Philanthropy$325,981Arts & Culture$282,390Animals$228,570

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $278,481 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTUTORSMART: $197,884 over 5y, 35% of budgetHOPE TOLEDO SERVICES: $150,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budget577 FOUNDATION: $97,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetZEPF CENTER: $87,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS FOR CLEAN STREAMS: $85,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetSOFIA QUINTERO ART AND CULTURAL CENTER: $85,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetBLACK SWAMP BIRD OBSERVATORY: $82,500 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetCENTER OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICES: $79,200 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetMONROE STREET NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $67,018 over 2y, 16% of budgetTHE ARTS COMMISSION OF GREATER TOLEDO I: $67,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $62,970 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCompassion Health Toledo: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAO ADVOCATING OPPORTUNITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE ISLAMIC CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAUTISM MODEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF TOLEDO INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST PAUL'S COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPARTNERS IN EDUCATION OF TOLEDO: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF LAKE ERIE: $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION: $49,628 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE: $48,100 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CENTER: $47,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $47,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAVENUES FOR AUTISM: $47,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetWATER FOR ISHMAEL: $47,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetMEMORYLANE CARE SERVICES: $47,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetUNRULY ARTS: $45,390 over 1y, 27% of budgetLUCAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S DRUG ABUSE RESPONSE TEAM INC: $45,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetMAUMEE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $45,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRANCISCAN SHELTERS: $41,422 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO: $40,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetADOPT AMERICA NETWORK: $40,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNATURES NURSERY CENTER FOR WILDLIFE REHAB & CONSR: $35,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING KITCHEN FOR: $35,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBABY UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetAURORA PROJECT INC: $35,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetBLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY: $32,160 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLUCAS HOUSING SERVICES CORPORATION: $31,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S THEATRE WORKSHOP OF TOLEDO: $30,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEACH HOUSE INC: $27,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTOLEDO LUCAS COUNTY CARENET INC: $27,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $27,000 over 1y, 8.9% 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.

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…United Way of Greater…John Henry Eldred Jr …The O-I Charities Fou…The Oswald Supporting…Bon Secours Mercy Hea…Toledo Community Foun…The Andersons Fund Su…Andersons FoundationPromedica Health Syst…Toledo Classic IncRobert C and Susan M …
Toledo Community Foundation IncOH121× affinity60 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Toledo · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · The O-I Charities Foundation · The Oswald Supporting Organization · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · Andersons Foundation · Promedica Health System Inc · Toledo Classic Inc · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation

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 The Stranahan Supporting Organization funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stranahan Supporting Organization. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    32report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Stranahan Supporting Organization through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 67 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 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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