The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo I
Toledo, OH · EIN 34-1358701. Reported 87 grants totalling $3,599,256 to 46 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo I, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A26Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 64% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $17,500. Half of what it reported fell between $7,640 and $43,750; the smallest was $5,140 and the largest $262,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts | Toledo, OH | $337,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Toledo Museum of Art | Toledo, OH | $337,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Toledo School for the Arts | Toledo, OH | $337,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sofia Quintero Art and Cultural Center | Toledo, OH | $235,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Toledo Cultural Arts Center Inc | Toledo, OH | $231,390 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Great Lakes Historical Society | Toledo, OH | $225,140 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Public Broadcasting Foundation of Northwest Ohio | Toledo, OH | $225,140 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Toledo Zoological Society | Toledo, OH | $168,890 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Childrens Theatre Workshop of Toledo | Toledo, OH | $168,750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Toledo Opera Association | Toledo, OH | $168,750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Toledo | Toledo, OH | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Toledo Science Center | Toledo, OH | $112,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Collingwood Arts Center Inc | Toledo, OH | $66,390 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nuestra Gente Community Projects Inc | Toledo, OH | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Great Lakes Jazz Society Corp | Toledo, OH | $56,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Toledo Repertoire Company | Toledo, OH | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Midstory | Toledo, OH | $47,640 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Downtown Sylvania Association Charities Inc | Sylvania, OH | $43,890 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Beinstrumental Foundation | Sylvania, OH | $43,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Inclusive for Women Inc Women of Toledo | Toledo, OH | $43,750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New Works Writer Series | Toledo, OH | $43,750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ballet Theatre of Toledo | Holland, OH | $40,140 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Believe Center Inc | Toledo, OH | $34,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Sylvania Community Arts Commission Inc | Sylvania, OH | $33,890 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Famed Foundation | Toledo, OH | $33,750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Toledo Choral Society Inc | Toledo, OH | $33,750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Clarence Smith Community Chorus Inc | Toledo, OH | $32,640 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Village Players | Toledo, OH | $26,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Peace & Healing LLC | Toledo, OH | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Toledo Jazz Festival | Toledo, OH | $23,750 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Issue Box Theatre Inc | Sylvania, OH | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Libbey House Foundation | Toledo, OH | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Toledo Integrated Media Education Inc | Toledo, OH | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Glacity Theatre Collective Inc | Toledo, OH | $16,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| African American Legacy Project of Northwest Ohio | Toledo, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lott Industries Inc | Toledo, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lakeside Theatre Company | Toledo, OH | $8,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| SCRAP4ART | Toledo, OH | $8,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Toledo Area Glass Guild | Toledo, OH | $8,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Toledo Artists Club | Toledo, OH | $8,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Masterworks Chorale | Toledo, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Unruly Arts | Toledo, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Black Swamp Arts Festival Inc | Bowling Green, OH | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Swamp Players | Bowling Green, OH | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lima Symphony Orchestra Association Inc | Lima, OH | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bliss Nova LLC | Toledo, OH | $5,856 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
30 of 46 (65%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 38 of 46 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | $80,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 11 | $86,500 | $6,250 |
| 2023 | 39 | $2,423,000 | $26,250 |
| 2024 | 29 | $1,009,756 | $12,640 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $17,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Ohio.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo I's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1838 Parkwood Ave Ste 120, Toledo, OH, 43604.
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