· Private foundation
Zenith Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARING HOUSE INC | $100,000 |
| WLMB - TV 40 | $70,000 |
| TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| CHERRY STREET MISSION | $35,000 |
| TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| LEARNING CLUB OF TOLEDO | $10,000 |
| BLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DBDOMINION BROADCASTING INC9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +39%
- TTTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART8× · 2017–2025 · $272k · revenue +34%
- CPCAMP PASQUANEY2× · 2021–2022 · $222k · revenue +222%
Funded once
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.
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.
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…
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…
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…
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DOMINION BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CAMP PASQUANEY ↗
- Who funds CARING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Learning Club of Toledo ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The O-I Charities Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund · The LaValley Foundation · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · Stranahan Foundation · United Way of Greater Toledo · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Elsie and Harry Baumker Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zenith Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zenith Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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