· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of Vortex Foundation Lawrence Foster TTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Toledo Community Foundation - Waterfall Fund | $500,000 |
| Craig Hospital Foundation | $50,000 |
| Toledo Museum Of Art | $25,000 |
| Hillsdale College | $25,000 |
| Toledo Children's Hospital Foundation | $15,000 |
| United Way Of Greater Toledo | $15,000 |
| Sunshine Foundation | $12,000 |
| Toledo Community Foundation Friends Campaign | $10,000 |
| Beaufort Memorial Hospital Foundation | $10,000 |
| AMI Kids | $10,000 |
| The Cradle Foundation | $5,000 |
| Coastal Conservation League | $5,000 |
| USC Beaufort Festival Series | $5,000 |
| Historic Beaufort Foundation | $5,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy | $5,000 |
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, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- SFSUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $97k · revenue +74%
- MVMAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL5× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +32%
- HTHOLY TRINITY CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC2× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- LCLIAL CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $10k
- KIKIDNEYS IN COMMONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +32%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
The mission of hospice of holland is to provide the most compassionate and highest quality end-of-life care through physical, emotional, and spiritual support.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The hospital council of northwest ohio is a member-driven organization that represents and advocates on behalf of its member hospitals and health systems, and provides collaborative opportunities to enhance the health status of the…
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
The mission of the christ hospital foundation ('tch fdn') is to support the mission of the christ hospital ('tch'). tch's mission is to improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the…
The community foundation of the holland/zeeland area seeks to ensure that our community thrives today, tomorrow, and forever by building our community's endowment to support high impact charitable projects, helping donors achieve their…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toledo Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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 52 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 38 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
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 TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds HOLY TRINITY CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BEAUFORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds The Cradle Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDNEYS IN COMMON ↗
- Who funds GOOD GRIEF OF NORTHWEST OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAROLINE HOSPICE OF BEAU ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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: 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
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 Vortex Foundation Lawrence Foster TTEE 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.
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.