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· Public charity
AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK
Feed people, fight hunger.
$2.0M
Granted FY2024
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01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
church christchrist backpackbaptist churchchurch god
2019
church christchurch godchristian churchchurchpantry
2020
distributionchurch godmealheartfood childrenchildren foodfood lunch
2021
hotlovemeetmethodist churchstarkjohnplace
2022
minervadirect distributionlutheranchildren'strinityministriesgodpantry
2023
ncc pantrygoes hungrylivingchildren'scleveland clinicclinic akronchrist
2024
voterncc pantrygoes hungrychildren'scarefood foodcenterbackpack
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $1,972,161.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$46M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Medina County Food Pantry
Provide emergency food for those in need.
Human Services
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The Lords Table a Ministry of Rccg
Food Pantry - Providing Food and other household items to people in the community
Religion
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Smith Chapel Food and Clothing Mission
Providing groceries to needy families of Hocking County Ohio
Food & Nutrition
4
Heart of Putnam Food Pantry Inc
Providing food to those in need.
Food & Nutrition
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Burlington-Hampshire Area Food Pantry
Food Pantry
Food & Nutrition
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3G Food Pantry
Local food pantry serving those food insecurity.
Food & Nutrition
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Barryton Area Mobile Food Pantry
Food distribution through a mobile food pantry.
Food & Nutrition
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Southside Community Ministries
An all-volunteer food pantry located in and focused on serving the south side of Columbus OH - provides a 3-day supply of food to individuals and families in need. SSCM distributed boxed non-perishable food and fresh produce three days a…
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Portage Township Food Pantry Inc
Food Assistance
Food & Nutrition
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Perry Center of Lake County Ohio
Operation of a food pantry
Food & Nutrition
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Community Crisis Services and Food Bank
Our vision: every individual in our community has support in a time of need.
Human Services
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Hubbard County Food Shelf
Receive and dispense food to needy clients
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Emergency Assistance Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Summa Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
3%4/157
the rest of the field
11%
698/6,583
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.
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.
Akron Community FoundationOH48.1× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · Stark Community Foundation · Northern Ohio Golf Charities · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · United Way of Summit and Medina · Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Swagelok Foundation · Nopec Foundation Inc
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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank?
Find your warmest path to Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines