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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.

$29k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,500
Organizations funded a year
10 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$583k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$28k17%
FY202310$23k30%
FY202210$21k10%
FY202116$49k13%
FY202014$35k43%
FY201922$49k32%
FY201816$27k56%
FY201725$50kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$99kHealth$49kCivil Rights$32kPhilanthropy$31kHuman Services$19kReligion$19kYouth Development$18kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 22 grantees
All grantees of Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
March of Dimes Inc$34,00080%
Project Grad Akron$29,50051%
Akron Community Service Center & Urban League Inc$12,80040%
Boys & Girls Club of the Western Reserve Inc$11,50021%
Haven of Rest Ministries Incorporated$9,5004n/a
United Disability Services Inc$8,00040%
Akron Roundtable$6,50031%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio$6,00020%
The University of Akron Foundation$5,50020%
Opportunity Parish Ecumenical Neighborhood Ministry$4,5002n/a
The Akron African-American Cultural Association$4,0003n/a
Global Ties Akron$3,50021%
St Paul a M E Church$3,3358n/a
Leadership Akron$2,75020%
Akron Zoological Park$2,50010%
In Education Inc$2,50024%
Sarahs House Inc$1,50021%
Akron AIDS Collaborative$1,5001n/a
Summit Artspace$1,00011%
Adaptive Sports Program of Ohio$70020%
Bondage Breakers Inc$5001n/a
Harmony House Inc$50012%

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($128k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $34,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetProject Grad Akron: $29,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAkron Community Service Center & Urban League Inc: $12,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of the Western Reserve Inc: $11,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Disability Services Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAkron Roundtable: $6,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Akron Foundation: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Ties Akron: $3,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLeadership Akron: $2,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAkron Zoological Park: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIn Education Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetSarahs House Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSummit Artspace: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAdaptive Sports Program of Ohio: $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHarmony House Inc: $500 over 1y, 1.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gar FoundationPA28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron

How much does Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron give?
Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron reported 13 grants totaling $29,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (16%), Civil Rights (10%).
Who are Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: March of Dimes Inc ($34k), Project Grad Akron ($30k), Akron Community Service Center & Urban League Inc ($13k).
Does Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gar Foundation, Synthomer Foundation Inc, Akron Community Foundation.
Where is Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron based?
Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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