Ohio · Nonprofit
TOLEDO LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILWAY AND MUSEUM
TOLEDO LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILWAY AND MUSEUM (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,135 to it, the largest being Andersons Foundation ($5,140). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
TOLEDO LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILWAY AND MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo Ilocalportfolio match
- Toledo Regional Chamber of Commercelocal
- The Rail Heritage Trust First Option Bank Trusteeportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $199 → $96.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of TOLEDO LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILWAY AND MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
TOLEDO LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILWAY AND MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
52% of TOLEDO LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILWAY AND MUSEUM's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $295 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo Ilocalportfolio matchOH · funds 40 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Toledo Regional Chamber of CommercelocalOH · funds 129 organizations near you
- The Rail Heritage Trust First Option Bank Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William M & Donna J Hoaglin Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tom E Dailey Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reeves Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Candelaria Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William G Pomeroy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like TOLEDO LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILWAY AND MUSEUM
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TOLEDO LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILWAY AND MUSEUM: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds TOLEDO LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILWAY AND MUSEUM?
- TOLEDO LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILWAY AND MUSEUM (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,135 to it, the largest being Andersons Foundation ($5,140). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOLEDO LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILWAY AND MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,135 in grants to TOLEDO LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILWAY AND MUSEUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOLEDO LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILWAY AND MUSEUM?
- Andersons Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,140 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOLEDO LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILWAY AND MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 3funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing