The Stranahan Supporting Organization
Toledo, OH · EIN 31-1572640. Reported 45 grants totalling $1,913,964 to 42 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 Stranahan Supporting Organization, the IRS classifies it as a support organization for one specific institution (NTEE T11).
- How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 8% 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. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $47,500. Half of what it reported fell between $32,160 and $50,000; the smallest was $6,400 and the largest $100,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hope Toledo Services | Toledo, OH | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Toledo Community Foundation | Toledo, OH | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| 577 Foundation | Perrysburg, OH | $97,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Tutor Smart | Toledo, OH | $52,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ao Advocating Opportunity Inc | Toledo, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Autism Model Community School | Toledo, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center of Hope Family Services Inc | Toledo, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Compassion Health Toledo | Toledo, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Wildlife Federation | Reston, VA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neighborhood Health Association of Toledo Inc | Toledo, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Partners for Clean Streams Inc | Perrysburg, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sofia Quintero Art and Cultural Center | Toledo, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Foundation of the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo Inc | Perrysburg, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Toledo Youth Golf | Toledo, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge | Oak Harbor, OH | $48,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Avenues for Autism | Toledo, OH | $47,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Black Swamp Bird Observatory | Oak Harbor, OH | $47,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family and Child Abuse Prevention Center | Toledo, OH | $47,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Memorylane Care Services | Toledo, OH | $47,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Toledo Opera Association | Toledo, OH | $47,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Water for Ishmael | Toledo, OH | $47,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Zepf Center | Toledo, OH | $47,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Toledo | Toledo, OH | $46,033 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Unruly Arts | Toledo, OH | $45,390 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Franciscan Shelters | Toledo, OH | $41,422 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Adopt America Network | Toledo, OH | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arts Commission of Greater Toledo Inc | Toledo, OH | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Connecting Kids to Meals Inc | Toledo, OH | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Moms House Inc | Toledo, OH | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Baby University | Toledo, OH | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Natures Nursery Center for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation | Waterville, OH | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Swamp Conservancy | Perrysburg, OH | $32,160 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ability Center of Greater Toledo | Sylvania, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The University of Toledo Foundation | Toledo, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Toledo | Sylvania, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Monroe Street Neighborhood Center | Toledo, OH | $27,018 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Toledo Muslim Doctors Initiative | Toledo, OH | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ohioguidestone | Berea, OH | $20,714 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| East Toledo Family Center Inc | Toledo, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Good Grief of Northwest Ohio Inc | Maumee, OH | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fair Housing Opportunities of Northwest Ohio Inc | Toledo, OH | $11,727 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Food for Thought Toledo Inc | Toledo, OH | $6,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
3 of 42 (7%) 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Greater Toledo Community Foundation
INITIATIVE FUND - SUPPORT OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING, STRATEGIC ALLIANCE PARTNERSHIP FUND - TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE ALLIANCE. - Hope Toledo Services
HOPE TOLEDO - PRE-K PROJECT - Autism Model Community School
STAR SUMMER LEARNING PROGRAM - The 577 Foundation
POTTERY STUDIO EXPANSION DESIGNS - Partners for Clean Streams Inc
COMMUNITY WATER ACTION IN TOLEDO - The Foundation of the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo Inc
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What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 of 42 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 | 13 | $498,946 | $35,000 |
| 2022 | 9 | $445,000 | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 9 | $399,518 | $47,500 |
| 2024 | 14 | $570,500 | $50,000 |
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
97% of its giving went to organizations in Ohio. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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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 $47,500 -- 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 Stranahan Supporting Organization'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.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 14 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 300 Madison Avenue Suite 1300, Toledo, OH, 43604.
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