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Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$640k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MHuman Services$535kAnimals$463kPublic Benefit$405kCommunity Improvement$380kYouth Development$345kEducation$310kPhilanthropy$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $428k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MONARCH: $5k → 13%WOOD LANE RESIDENTIAL SERVICES: $15k → 12%MONARCH: $5k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%DIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 18%DIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 18%DIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 18%DIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $3k → 18%DIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 18%SUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
MD
NC
SC
DC
TX
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 50 repeat orgs$642k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
37

Total granted

$3.7M
$574k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+11%

Still filing today

60%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $235k · revenue +80%
  • TO
    TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $150k · revenue +27%
  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo
    3× · 2019–2021 · $150k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TOLEDO ZOOILOGICAL SOCIETY FND
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • TT
    THE TOLEDO ZOOLIGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • TT
    THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +11%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Toledo Science Center

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

Arts & Culture
2
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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3
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

—
4
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
5
Ohio State Bar Association

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.

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6
University of Toledo Physicians Clinical Faculty Inc

To improve the human condition through excellence in patient care and medical discovery.

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7
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
8
The Ability Center of Greater Toledo

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

Human Services
9
Toledo GROWs Inc

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.

Environment
10
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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11
University of Toledo Alumni Association

Supporting the university of toledo by fostering a spirit of loyalty among its alumni.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toledo Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 94 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/50
Grantees still filing
33/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ERIE SHORES COUNCIL: $350,000 · OtherERIE SHORES COUNCILARTS COMMISSION: $150,000 · OtherARTS COMMISSIONYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo: $150,000 · OtherYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater ToledoBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION: $140,000 · OtherVALENTINE THEATRE: $140,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $120,000 · OtherYMCA: $115,000 · OtherTHE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100,000 · OtherMETROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherYWCA: $100,000 · Other+54 more: $1,254,500 · Other+54 moreTOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $170,000 · Arts & CultureTOLEDO ALLIANCE…TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTOLEDO OPERA AS…THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART: $107,500 · Arts & CultureTHE TOLEDO MUSE…PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $78,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCAS…RUTHERFORD B HAYES PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUMS: $55,000 · Arts & CultureRUTHERFORD B HA…THE IMAGINATION STATION: $32,500 · Arts & CultureTHE IMAGINATION…+2 more: $12,500 · Arts & CultureTOLEDO HUMANE SOCIETY: $210,000 · AnimalsTOLEDO HU…THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · AnimalsTHE TOLED…THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 · AnimalsTHE TOLED…+1 more: $3,000 · AnimalsLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $235,000 · Community ImprovementHISTORIC SOUTH INITIATIVE: $25,000 · Community ImprovementTOLEDO DESIGN COLLECTIVE 1 SEAGATE: $20,000 · Community ImprovementCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationOTTAWA HILLS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $20,000 · EducationTOLEDO TOMORROW: $20,000 · EducationTUTORSMART: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO: $85,000 · PhilanthropyTOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropySUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 · Human ServicesDIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $19,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesWOOD LANE RESIDENTIAL SERVICES: $15,000 · Human ServicesMONARCH: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$2,719,500Arts & Culture$605,500Animals$363,000Community Improvement$280,000Education$155,000Philanthropy$110,000Human Services$99,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $235,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTOLEDO HUMANE SOCIETY: $210,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetTOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $170,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $150,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION: $140,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART: $107,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMETROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO: $85,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGirl Scouts of Western Ohio: $80,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $78,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRUTHERFORD B HAYES PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUMS: $55,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMAUMEE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $50,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST OHIO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $45,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetBLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTOLEDO CLASSIC INC: $36,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC SOUTH INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTORIA VISION 2020 INC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetBITTERSWEET INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD GRIEF OF NORTHWEST OHIO INC: $20,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetTOLEDO DESIGN COLLECTIVE 1 SEAGATE: $20,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetMAREDA CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOLEDO TOMORROW: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGEARY FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FOSTORIA OHIO: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDIABETES YOUTH SERVICES: $19,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOOD LANE RESIDENTIAL SERVICES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONARCH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTUTORSMART: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTOLEDO REPERTOIRE COMPANY: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMiracle League of Northwest Ohio Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetLearning Club of Toledo: $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA RENEWED MIND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK SWAMP BIRD OBSERVATORY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFROGTOWN PLAYERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 35% 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.

  • 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 THE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds METROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 NORTHWEST OHIO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds TOLEDO CLASSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE IMAGINATION STATION ↗
  • Who funds OTTAWA HILLS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗

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…Promedica Health Syst…John Henry Eldred Jr …Robert C and Susan M …Toledo Classic IncHylant Family Foundat…Elsie and Harry Baumk…George Isaac Foundati…Premier Bank Foundati…The Andersons Fund Su…The Stranahan Support…
Toledo Community Foundation IncOH76.5× affinity36 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 · 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

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 Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 94 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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