· Private foundation
Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron
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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Akron | $8,500 |
| Project Grad of Akron | $5,000 |
| March of Dimes | $3,000 |
| Akron Urban League | $2,500 |
| Akron Zoological Park | $2,500 |
| Leadership Akron | $1,500 |
| Haven of Rest Ministries | $1,500 |
| NAACP - Akron Branch | $1,000 |
| Akron Community Foundation | $1,000 |
| AROPI | $1,000 |
| AFPNEO | $600 |
| United Disability Services | $500 |
| St Paul AME Church | $400 |
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 (FY17–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
28 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- PGPROJECT GRAD AKRON5× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +111%
- ACAKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC4× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +55%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO2× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- AIAkron-UMADAOP Incone grant, 2017 · $3k
- CCCleveland Clinic Akron Generalone grant, 2019 · $3k
- FGFirst Grace United Church of Chirstone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
To engage the akron, ohio community around the creation and sustainability of vibrant public spaces within the city of akron. we foster and support neighborhood park advocates by enabling them to meet their goals, partner with the city and…
To promote business in the tri-county area
To enhance the quality of law and justice through community service and to maintain the integrity of the profession.
Exclusively for charitable, religious, educational
The akron development corporation was organized to support economic development initiatives in the city of akron, particularly through the former akron global business accelerator and to secure state of ohio funding for technology-based…
Akron soul train (ast) is a multidisciplinary residency program that provides 12-15 artists each year with paid residencies. our mission is to offer ohio-based visual, performing, and literary artists the space, time, and financial…
We create connections, empowering everyone in the autism community with the resources needed to live fully.
The mission of the akron-canton regional foodbank is to lead a collaborative network that empowers people to experience healthy and hunger-free lives. we distribute food to feed people and we advocate, engage and convene our community in…
Goodwill industries of akron, ohio, inc is a not-for-profit corporation that helps individuals prepare for, find, and retain employment. goodwill serves the five-county region of summit, portage, medina, ashland, and richland. goodwill…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Akron Community Service Center & Urban League Inc and the most unlike its peers is Akron Aids Collaborative. 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 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 56 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 MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT GRAD AKRON ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED DISABILITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL TIES AKRON ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP AKRON ↗
- Who funds In Education Inc ↗
- Who funds AKRON ZOOLOGICAL PARK ↗
- Who funds SARAHS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON AIDS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ARTSPACE ↗
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: Gar Foundation · Synthomer Foundation Inc · Akron Community Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Lehner Family Foundation · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · The Welty Family Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Firstenergy Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Maynard Family Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith 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 Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron 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.