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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
N&CY WATSON INC DBA DOC WATSONS$25,000
THE BLARNEY IRISH PUB$25,000
CENTRAL TRAVEL$25,000
BEACH HOUSE INC DBA LEADING FAMILIES HOME$25,000
DIABETES YOUTH SERVICES$25,000
BEAR FLOWERS LLC DBA BARTZ VIVIANO FLOWERS & GIFTS$25,000
ERIE SHORES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$25,000
HEARTBEAT OF TOLEDO$25,000
RIVERBEND EQUINE THERAPY (DBA HOOVES)$25,000
ARTS COMMISSION OF GREATER TOLEDO$25,000
JPLC LLC DBA JUPMODE$25,000
ZDL VENTURES INC DBA MANHATTAN'S RESTAURANT$25,000
MY FIRST DAYS$25,000
MAYBERRY ICE CREAM LLC$25,000
LITTLE GENERATION DAY CARE$25,000
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 (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 its 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
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 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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diabetes Youth Services; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 134 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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…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

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 Regional Chamber of Commerce funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%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
    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
    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 134 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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