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Toledo Community Foundation Inc
The toledo community foundation, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 406 grants below total $17,772,378 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $20,816,186 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,043,808 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 $10k94 grants · $659k
- $10k–50k235 grants · $4.8M
- $50k–250k63 grants · $5.5M
- $250k+14 grants · $6.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOM'S HOUSE OF TOLEDO | $1,042,367 |
| HOSPICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO | $901,826 |
| THE 577 FOUNDATION | $768,076 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $728,600 |
| STRANAHAN THEATER TRUST | $463,259 |
| METROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION | $463,027 |
| EPWORTH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $371,500 |
| CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $325,000 |
| HOPE TOLEDO SERVICES | $317,000 |
| TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART | $302,512 |
| TOLEDO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS | $296,603 |
| YMCA AND JCC OF GREATER TOLEDO | $274,074 |
| MANAHAN | $272,342 |
| THE FERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO | $212,727 |
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 (FY17–24, $9.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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 5% of Toledo Community Foundation Inc’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, 84% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 79% — 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 +40% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
497 repeat relationships — 303 still active in FY2024, 194 since wound down; 86 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- HOHOSPICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO8× · 2017–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +8%
- 5F577 FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +64% · 84% of their budget
- STSTRANAHAN THEATER TRUST8× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- ILIBEW LOCAL 8 SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2022 · $652k · revenue -92% · 94% of their budget
- AIAngeline Industries Incone grant, 2017 · $511k · revenue -17% · 49% of their budget
- POPROVINCE OF OUR LADY OF CONSOLATIONone grant, 2022 · $400k
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 harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
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 promote economic development, job creation, job retention, job training, workforce development, and the retention of current and recruitment of new business to ohio.
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.
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.
Finance fund builds bridges between resources and the low-income community to improve the quality of life for people. the organization locates funding and provides resources to support organizations that assist low and moderate income…
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
To advocate for an equitable ohio for people with disabilities.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toledo Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Erie Marsh Conservation 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 33 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
696 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. 696 of the 882 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HOSPICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds 577 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRANAHAN THEATER TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SOLAR TOLEDO NEIGHBORHOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Manahan ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROMEDICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds METROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds MAUMEE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds SIOP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE TOLEDO SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HUMANE OHIO ↗
- Who funds PERRYSBURG SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds IBEW LOCAL 8 SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds CONTEXTICON LEARNING AND RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds LOURDES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SOUTH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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: United Way of Greater Toledo · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · The O-I Charities Foundation · The Stranahan Supporting Organization · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · Promedica Health System Inc · Toledo Classic Inc · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · The Oswald Supporting Organization · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · Andersons Foundation · 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 Toledo Community Foundation Inc 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.
- National Park Trust Inc — 51% of income from government
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- Williams College — 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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