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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 34-6518567

Fred Melvin Douglass Foundation

A private foundation in Cincinnati, OH. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 2 grants and $88,077 paid in grants.

Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact
Fifth Third Bank N A
550 N Summit St 22nd Floor
Toledo, OH 43604
(419) 259-6803
Form and materials
Research applications supplied by hospital should be used project name, purpose, description and details should be included
Deadlines
None
Restrictions
Limited to hospital and other organizations in the city of toledo or territory adjacent thereto and limited to clinical research in the field of medicine, particularly surgery.

Assets and giving by year

7 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.
  • Tax year 2025

    $88,077

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $1,551,066
  • Tax year 2024

    $80,579

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $1,404,099
  • Tax year 2023

    $78,816

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $1,421,817
  • Tax year 2022

    $97,154

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $1,432,821
  • Tax year 2021

    $94,050

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $1,501,082
  • Tax year 2020

    $83,936

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $1,458,637
  • Tax year 2019

    $72,130

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $1,509,575

Grants paid in 2025

2 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Mercy Health FoundationBlue Ash, OH

    Program support

    $45,885
  2. Univ of Toledo FNDN Health SVCS Research DeptToledo, OH

    Program support

    $42,192

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Religion1 grant $45,885100% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Ohio2 grants $88,077

Officers, directors and trustees

7 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Fifth Third Bank N ACO-TRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $28,522
  • Christopher BalesCO-TRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Gregory KasperCO-TRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Joseph SferraCO-TRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Constance CashenCO-TRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Michael StarkCO-TRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Michael PlewaCO-TRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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