Skip to content
Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund

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.

$77k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Human Services$151kEducation$132kFood & Nutrition$118kYouth Development$96kHealth$92kEnvironment$87kArts & Culture$71kPhilanthropy$49kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,798
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LEARNING CLUB OF TOLEDO$6,794
TUTORSMART$5,995
TOLEDO SEAGATE FOOD BANK$5,596
GREATER TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$5,595
TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK INC$4,796
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$4,795
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO$3,996
ARTS COMMISSION OF GREATER TOLEDO INC$3,597
PARTNERS FOR CLEAN STREAMS INC$3,197
BLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY$3,197
ST TIMOTHY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$3,197
HOSPICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO$3,197
TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART$2,798
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST OHIO$2,798
MAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$2,398
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $11k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%ASSISTANCE DOGS OF AMERICA INC CO ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $9k → 18%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%MOM'S HOUSE: $5k → 18%ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $6k → 18%MOM'S HOUSE OF TOLEDO: $3k → 18%ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $6k → 18%MONROE STREET NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $2k → 18%CENTER OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $3k → 18%BEACH HOUSE INC DBA LEADING FAMILIES HOME: $3k → 18%CENTER OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2k → 18%BEACH HOUSE INC DBA LEADING FAMILIES HOME: $2k → 18%CENTER OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2k → 18%BEACH HOUSE INC DBA LEADING FAMILIES HOME: $1k → 18%CENTER OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2k → 18%WATER FOR ISHMAEL: $1k → 18%SUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 18%SUNSHINE FOUNDATION: $3k → 18%SUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 18%SUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 18%SUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 18%SUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$812k · 38 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
8

Total granted

$812k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+47%

Still filing today

84%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • LC
    Learning Club of Toledo
    7× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +14%
  • TS
    TOLEDO SEAGATE FOODBANK INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +64%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • PH
    PERRYSBURG HEIGHTS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +34%
  • TS
    TOLEDO SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND DBA THE SIGHT CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • LA
    Latin American Leadership Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +175%
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.

—
3
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…

—
4
Toledo Science Center

Empower everyone to explore the sciences through interactive exhibits and educational programming.

Arts & Culture
5
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…

—
6
Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce

To solve critical business challenges in order to create vibrant economic opportunities for all in our region.

—
7
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
8
Toledo GROWs Inc

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.

Environment
9
The Toledo Bar Association

Provide outstanding service to our members and to assist them in serving the legal profession and the community.

—
10
Toward Independence Inc

To empower people with developmental disabilities to experience the fullest life possible by providing person-centered supports which enable them to integrate into a variety of settings within their community

Human Services
11
Southeastern Ohio Center for Independent Living

Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.

Human Services
12
Columbus Early Learning Centers

Columbus early learning centers (celc) has over 130 years of history providing high quality, affordable early learning and childcare in central ohio. this rich history places celc amongst the oldest early childcare programs in the country.…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toledo Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Boxing Club International Boxing Club. 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

41 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. 41 of the 48 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
35/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST TIMOTHY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $38,697 · OtherST TIMOTHY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHHOSPICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $35,697 · OtherHOSPICE OF NORTHWEST OHIOBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO: $31,298 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTH…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO - NORTHWEST OHIO REGION: $25,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHI…ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC: $16,898 · OtherADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALIT…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY - NORTHWEST REGIONAL OFFICE: $11,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $40,746 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES O…AURORA PROJECT INC: $9,000 · Other+14 more: $60,095 · Other+14 moreLearning Club of Toledo: $64,794 · EducationLearning Club of ToledoMAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $36,398 · EducationMAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY D…TUTORSMART: $29,995 · EducationTUTORSMARTPARTNERS IN EDUCATION OF TOLEDO: $23,349 · EducationPARTNERS IN EDUCATION O…READ FOR LITERACY INC: $22,500 · EducationREAD FOR LITERACY INCHOPE TOLEDO SERVICES: $10,599 · EducationHOPE TOLEDO SERVICES+1 more: $1,500 · EducationTOLEDO SEAGATE FOODBANK INC: $58,096 · Food & NutritionTOLEDO SEAGATE…TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK: $51,296 · Food & NutritionTOLEDO NORTHWE…CONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC: $6,500 · Food & NutritionCONNECTING KID…+1 more: $2,299 · Food & NutritionWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $55,295 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIO…THE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $21,000 · Human ServicesTHE ABILITY CE…SUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE FOUND…CENTER OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICES: $7,500 · Human ServicesCENTER OF HOPE…MOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO: $7,500 · Human ServicesMOM'S HOUSE IN…BEACH HOUSE INC: $5,500 · Human Services+2 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesBLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY: $51,697 · EnvironmentBLACK SWAM…PARTNERS FOR CLEAN STREAMS: $33,697 · EnvironmentPARTNERS F…THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART: $28,798 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS COMMISSION OF GREATER TOLEDO I: $25,097 · Arts & CultureTOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $15,599 · Arts & CultureTOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $48,595 · PhilanthropyAVENUES FOR AUTISM: $10,599 · Philanthropy
Other$268,931Education$189,135Food & Nutrition$118,191Human Services$113,295Environment$85,394Arts & Culture$69,494Philanthropy$59,194

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 budgetLearning Club of Toledo: $64,794 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetTOLEDO SEAGATE FOODBANK INC: $58,096 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $55,295 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY: $51,697 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK: $51,296 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $48,595 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $40,746 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetMAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $36,398 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $35,697 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS FOR CLEAN STREAMS: $33,697 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO: $31,298 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetTUTORSMART: $29,995 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART: $28,798 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARTS COMMISSION OF GREATER TOLEDO I: $25,097 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN EDUCATION OF TOLEDO: $23,349 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetREAD FOR LITERACY INC: $22,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $21,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC: $16,898 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $15,599 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAVENUES FOR AUTISM: $10,599 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetHOPE TOLEDO SERVICES: $10,599 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAURORA PROJECT INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE COMMUNITY CENTER: $7,599 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICES: $7,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO: $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Boxing Club International Boxing Club: $6,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetBEACH HOUSE INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTOLEDO SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC: $4,599 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetADELANTE INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPERRYSBURG HEIGHTS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $4,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNATURES NURSERY CENTER FOR WILDLIFE REHAB & CONSR: $4,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLatin American Leadership Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUMPSTART INC: $2,299 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF TOLEDO INC: $2,299 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBITTERSWEET INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONROE STREET NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWATER FOR ISHMAEL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Learning Club of Toledo ↗
  • Who funds TOLEDO SEAGATE FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
  • Who funds MAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS FOR CLEAN STREAMS ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO ↗
  • Who funds TUTORSMART ↗
  • Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds THE ARTS COMMISSION OF GREATER TOLEDO I ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN EDUCATION OF TOLEDO ↗
  • Who funds READ FOR LITERACY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
  • Who funds ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC ↗
  • Who funds TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AVENUES FOR AUTISM ↗
  • Who funds HOPE TOLEDO SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds AURORA PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GRACE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CENTER OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds International Boxing Club International Boxing Club ↗
  • Who funds BEACH HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds TOLEDO SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds ADELANTE INC ↗
  • Who funds PERRYSBURG HEIGHTS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NATURES NURSERY CENTER FOR WILDLIFE REHAB & CONSR ↗

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…The O-I Charities Fou…Toledo Community Foun…The Stranahan Support…United Way of Greater…John Henry Eldred Jr …Toledo Classic IncAndersons FoundationThe Oswald Supporting…The Andersons Fund Su…Robert C and Susan M …Stranahan Foundation
Toledo Community Foundation IncOH79× affinity37 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 · Toledo Community Foundation Inc Algonquin Fund · The Stranahan Supporting Organization · United Way of Greater Toledo · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Toledo Classic Inc · Andersons Foundation · The Oswald Supporting Organization · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · Stranahan 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 Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report 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.

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 48 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home