· Private foundation
Ada C Rank & Helen J Rank Charitable
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY | $30,758 |
| STARK STATE COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| CANTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES | $10,000 |
| AKRONCANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK | $10,000 |
| MALONE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| WALSH UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| ARTS IN STARK | $6,500 |
| ST MICHAEL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| EN-RICH-MENT | $5,000 |
| REFUGE OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD RESOURCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| PATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WUWalsh University Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +2%
- TOTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES3× · 2021–2025 · $48k · revenue +25%
- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK5× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- OFOHIO FDN OF INDPENDENTone grant, 2020 · $14k
- CCCENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We build our community's capacity to alleviate the impact of poverty and empower families to unleash their potential.
To help people discover a lifestyle of meaning joy and fulfillment through treatment and training. emerge ministries inc. is devoted to serving our clients. this service encompasses a biblically based mental health center with…
We strengthen stark county by driving business growth and leading its economic transformation.
The cleveland rape crisis center is a non-profit organization which supports survivors of sexual violence, promotes healing and prevention, and advocates for social change.
Advancement of the economic, industrial, professional, cultural and civic welfare of stark county and its surrounding region and the promotion and preservation of the competitive free enterprise system.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
Provide financial services to its members.
To identify, activate, and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community. we accomplish this by:- building a permanent source of charitable funding- cultivating strategic…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stewart's Caring Place Inc and Subsidiary and the most unlike its peers is Canton Ex-Newsboys Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 60 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds STARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Central Stark County ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN STARK ↗
- Who funds EN-RICH-MENT ↗
- Who funds CANTON EX-NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds MALONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD & ADOLESCENT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Stark County Diaper Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Massillon YMCA Of Western Stark County ↗
- Who funds REFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE VOYAGER PROGRAM INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Stark Community Foundation · Albert W & Edith V Flowers Charitable · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Timken Foundation of Canton · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Fred F Silk Charitable Foundation · Health Foundation of Greater Massillon · The Belden Brick Charitable Trust · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · Akron Community Foundation · North Canton Medical Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ada C Rank & Helen J Rank Charitable funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.