· Private foundation
Albert W & Edith V Flowers Charitable
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Albert W & Edith V Flowers Charitable’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Stark Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Albert W & Edith V Flowers Charitable named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $124k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k23 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA | $20,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $18,000 |
| EN RICH MENT SUPPORT | $10,000 |
| ST JOAN OR ARC CHURCH | $6,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S CHURCH-MASILLON | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MASILLON | $5,000 |
| LEARNING COMMONS | $5,000 |
| OSNABURG LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $4,000 |
| OHIOGUIDESTONE | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| PERRY HISTORY CLUB INC | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
46 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2022, 29 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- BGBOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF MASSILLON INC6× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +149%
- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK6× · 2017–2023 · $28k · revenue +43%
- YMYoung Mens Christian Association of Massillon YMCA Of Western Stark County4× · 2017–2021 · $21k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $15k
- SJST JOAN OF ARC CATHOLIC CHURCH FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CTCHRIST THE SERVANT PARISHone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Ending homelessness in stark county ohio.
We build our community's capacity to alleviate the impact of poverty and empower families to unleash their potential.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
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.
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.
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…
To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
Our mission is to provide access to a coordinated system of health care and community resources for those that are underserved and impacted by community conditions.
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stark Community Foundation 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.
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 48 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 13% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 89 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 STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF MASSILLON INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Massillon YMCA Of Western Stark County ↗
- Who funds CANTON EX-NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds MALONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Central Stark County ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN STARK ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS FARM ↗
- Who funds REFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
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 · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Timken Foundation of Canton · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · Ada C Rank & Helen J Rank Charitable · The Belden Brick Charitable Trust · Health Foundation of Greater Massillon · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Fred F Silk Charitable Foundation · The Paul and Carol David 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 Albert W & Edith V Flowers 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.
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