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Vortex Foundation Lawrence Foster TTEE

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.

$713k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 21
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$6.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Vortex Foundation Lawrence Foster TTEE funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23
HealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$683k17%
FY202316$356k0%
FY202218$461k6%
FY202118$428k0%
FY202016$625k19%
FY201819$169k32%
FY201721$178kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$2.7MHealth$272kEducation$154kHousing & Shelter$109kArts & Culture$93kYouth Development$85kAnimals$70kEnvironment$59kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
OH
PA
CO
VA
SC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 18 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vortex Foundation Lawrence Foster TTEE supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSunshine Foundation Inc: $97,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetMaumee Valley Country Day School: $64,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Toledo: $61,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHoly Trinity Classical Christian School Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHospice of Northwest Ohio: $53,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $53,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBeaufort Memorial Hospital Foundation: $52,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHistoric Beaufort Foundation: $33,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetThe Toledo Museum of Art: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cradle Foundation: $21,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCherry Street Mission Ministries: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc: $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGood Grief of Northwest Ohio Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetToledo Day Nursery: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Caroline Hospice of Beau: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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 Foundation IncOH25.7× affinity10 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 · Andersons Foundation · Dana Charitable Foundation · Hylant Family Foundation Inc · Stranahan Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Clement O Miniger Memorial Foundati Co Trust Company Family Office · Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · George Isaac 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.

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About Vortex Foundation Lawrence Foster TTEE

How much does Vortex Foundation Lawrence Foster TTEE give?
Vortex Foundation Lawrence Foster TTEE reported 20 grants totaling $713,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Vortex Foundation Lawrence Foster TTEE fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (73%), Health (7%), Education (4%).
Who are Vortex Foundation Lawrence Foster TTEE's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sunshine Foundation Inc ($97k), Maumee Valley Country Day School ($64k), United Way of Greater Toledo ($61k).
Does Vortex Foundation Lawrence Foster TTEE fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Vortex Foundation Lawrence Foster TTEE accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vortex Foundation Lawrence Foster TTEE?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Toledo Community Foundation Inc, The O-I Charities Foundation, Andersons Foundation.
Where is Vortex Foundation Lawrence Foster TTEE based?
Vortex Foundation Lawrence Foster TTEE is based in OH.

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 38 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.

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