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Plinth

· Public charity

Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

$1.9M
Granted FY2020
135
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2020.

Public Safety & Disaster$1.2MHealth$181kHuman Services$179kArts & Culture$125kFood & Nutrition$70kCommunity Improvement$50kEducation$45kAnimals$35kOther$0
02FY2020 · 135 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k4 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k131 grants · $1.9M
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADELANTE INC$25,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN OF NORTHWEST OHIO$25,000
BEACH HOUSE INC DBA LEADING FAMILIES HOME$25,000
BEAR FLOWERS LLC DBA BARTZ VIVIANO FLOWERS & GIFTS$25,000
HEARTBEAT OF TOLEDO$25,000
TOLEDO BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD INC DBA TOLEDO GROWS$25,000
ZDL VENTURES INC DBA MANHATTAN'S RESTAURANT$25,000
FITNESS 4 ALL INC$25,000
MY FIRST DAYS$25,000
SUMMIT FOODS LLC$25,000
TOLEDO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC$25,000
ARTS COMMISSION OF GREATER TOLEDO$25,000
GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,000
KDM GROUP LLC$25,000
DOWNTOWN TOLEDO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$25,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HEARTBEAT OF TOLEDO: $25k → 18%DIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 18%BEACH HOUSE INC DBA LEADING FAMILIES HOME: $25k → 18%CENTER OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICES: $24k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
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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2
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
3
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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4
Toledo Science Center

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

Arts & Culture
5
Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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6
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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7
The Ability Center of Greater Toledo

To assist people with disabilities to live, work and socialize within a fully accessible community.

Human Services
8
Girls On the Run of Central Ohio

We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.

Youth Development
9
Tutorsmart

To enhance opportunities for student tutoring across the toledo, ohio area by the application of quantitative metrics.

Education
10
Toledo Repertoire Company

To entertain, educate and serve toledo, ohio and the surrounding region through live theatre.

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diabetes Youth Services and the most unlike its peers is Riverbend Equine Therapy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr12%10%5–10yr17%14%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr14%38%35–55yr20%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr12%6%5–10yr17%14%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr14%41%35–55yr20%19%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/134
the rest of the field
13%
294/2,230

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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 134 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+120 more — $1,576,841 · Other+120 moreTHE ARTS COMMISSION OF GREATER TOLEDO I — $25,000 · Arts & CultureRiverbend Equine Therapy — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTOLEDO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S THEATRE WORKSHOP OF TOLEDO — $25,000 · Arts & CultureDOWNTOWN TOLEDO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureHEARTBEAT OF TOLEDO INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesBEACH HOUSE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesDIABETES YOUTH SERVICES — $25,000 · Human ServicesCENTER OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICES — $24,436 · Human ServicesTOLEDO AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Community ImprovementPARTNERS IN EDUCATION OF TOLEDO — $23,536 · EducationSylvan Robotics — $21,526 · EducationJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO — $25,000 · InternationalGIRLS ON THE RUN OF NORTHWEST OHIO — $25,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,576,841Arts & Culture$125,000Human Services$99,436Community Improvement$50,000Education$45,062International$25,000Recreation & Sports$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTOLEDO AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetTHE ARTS COMMISSION OF GREATER TOLEDO I — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetADELANTE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetRiverbend Equine Therapy — $25,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO — $25,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTHE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHEARTBEAT OF TOLEDO INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF NORTHWEST OHIO — $25,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetBEACH HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S THEATRE WORKSHOP OF TOLEDO — $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetERIE SHORES COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDIABETES YOUTH SERVICES — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDOWNTOWN TOLEDO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetToledo GROWs Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSYLVANIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $25,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetAURORA PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCENTER OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICES — $24,436 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPARTNERS IN EDUCATION OF TOLEDO — $23,536 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSylvan Robotics — $21,526 over 1y, 15% of budgetOpen Door Ministry Inc — $11,191 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMEMORYLANE CARE SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

Toledo Community Foun…The O-I Charities Fou…United Way of Greater…The Stranahan Support…John Henry Eldred Jr …The Andersons Fund Su…Dana Charitable Found…Toledo Community Foun…Toledo Classic IncBon Secours Mercy Hea…Toledo Community Foun…The Oswald Supporting…
Toledo Community Foundation IncOH36× affinity18 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 · United Way of Greater Toledo · The Stranahan Supporting Organization · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · Dana Charitable Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund · Toledo Classic Inc · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc Algonquin Fund · The Oswald Supporting Organization

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 Regional Chamber of Commerce 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your 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
    14report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 134 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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