· Public charity
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank
The mission of the AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK is to lead a collaborative network that empowers people to experience healthy and hunger-free lives.
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.
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
Provide emergency food for those in need.
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…
Providing weekly food assistance
Address the food insecurity needs in our community
Empower the Pomeroy community
Operation of a food pantry
Helping Hands Ministry has expanded the outreach service to distribute more than just food. The lunch consists of a meat, 2 vegetables, salad, bread, desert and drink.
Food Assistance
Providing food to those in need.
Food distribution to the needy
Religious Orginazation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Neighbors Inc and the most unlike its peers is Quest Recovery and Prevention Services. 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
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: Akron Community Foundation · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · Stark Community Foundation · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · United Way of Summit and Medina · Christ 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.