· Private foundation
Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $428k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $60,000 |
| YMCA | $55,000 |
| ERIE SHORES COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TOLEDO | $40,000 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORP | $35,000 |
| TOLEDO OPERA | $30,000 |
| TOLEDO AREA HUMANE SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| VALENTINE THEATRE | $30,000 |
| OTTAWA HILLS SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ARTS COMMISSION | $25,000 |
| BLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| TOLEDO JEEP FEST | $20,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION7× · 2019–2025 · $235k · revenue +80%- TOTOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION7× · 2019–2025 · $150k · revenue +27%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo3× · 2019–2021 · $150k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- TTTHE TOLEDO ZOOLIGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $50k
- TTTHE TOLEDO ZOOILOGICAL SOCIETY FNDone grant, 2020 · $50k
- TTTHE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +11%
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.
Empower everyone to explore the sciences through interactive exhibits and educational programming.
To solve critical business challenges in order to create vibrant economic opportunities for all in our region.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
To improve the human condition through excellence in patient care and medical discovery.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To assist people with disabilities to live, work and socialize within a fully accessible community.
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.
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.
Supporting the university of toledo by fostering a spirit of loyalty among its alumni.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toledo Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 94 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 LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds METROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Western Ohio ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds RUTHERFORD B HAYES PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds MAUMEE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST OHIO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO CLASSIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE IMAGINATION STATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOSTORIA VISION 2020 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 · Promedica Health System Inc · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · Toledo Classic Inc · Hylant Family Foundation Inc · Elsie and Harry Baumker Charitable Foundation Inc · George Isaac Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · The Stranahan 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 Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund 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.
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
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.