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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 FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% 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
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$583k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Akron$8,500
Project Grad of Akron$5,000
March of Dimes$3,000
Akron Zoological Park$2,500
Akron Urban League$2,500
Leadership Akron$1,500
Haven of Rest Ministries$1,500
AROPI$1,000
Akron Community Foundation$1,000
NAACP - Akron Branch$1,000
AFPNEO$600
United Disability Services$500
St Paul AME Church$400
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Akron Urban League: $6k → 13%Akron Urban League: $3k → 13%Akron Urban League: $3k → 13%The Akron Urban League: $2k → 13%Sarah's House Inc: $1k → 13%Akron Urban League: $500 → 13%Sarah's House Inc: $500 → 13%Akron Aids Collaborative: $2k → 13%Open M: $3k → 13%Open M: $2k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$250k · 28 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
25

Total granted

$250k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+268%

Still filing today

46%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHousing & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PG
    PROJECT GRAD AKRON
    5× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +111%
  • AC
    AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +55%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO
    2× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • AI
    Akron-UMADAOP Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • CC
    Cleveland Clinic Akron General
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • FG
    First Grace United Church of Chirst
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Akron Parks Collaborative

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…

Recreation & Sports
2
Akron Revitalization Committee Inc
Community Improvement
3
Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron
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4
Greater Akron Chamber

To promote business in the tri-county area

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5
Akron Bar Association

To enhance the quality of law and justice through community service and to maintain the integrity of the profession.

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6
Akron Black Artist Guild

Exclusively for charitable, religious, educational

Arts & Culture
7
Akron Development Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
8
Akron Soul Train

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Ohio Business Leadership Network
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10
Autism Society of Greater Akron

We create connections, empowering everyone in the autism community with the resources needed to live fully.

Health
11
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. we distribute food to feed people and we advocate, engage and convene our community in…

Food & Nutrition
12
The Goodwill Industries of Akron Ohio Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Akron Community Service Center & Urban League Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Akron: $30,500 · OtherUniversity of AkronNAACP - Akron Branch: $29,250 · OtherNAACP - Akron BranchProject Grad of Akron: $22,500 · OtherProject Grad of AkronBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $11,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INCHAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $9,500 · OtherHAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES INCORPORATEDUNITED DISABILITY SERVICES INC: $8,000 · OtherAKRON ROUNDTABLE: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · Other+36 more: $52,953 · Other+36 morePROJECT GRAD AKRON: $29,500 · EducationPROJECT GRAD A…THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $5,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY…LEADERSHIP AKRON: $2,750 · EducationLEADERSHIP AKR…In Education Inc: $2,500 · EducationIn Education I…MARCH OF DIMES INC: $34,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIM…AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,500 · PhilanthropyAKRON COMMU…AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC: $12,800 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY: $4,500 · Human ServicesSARAHS HOUSE INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesAKRON AIDS COLLABORATIVE: $1,500 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentAKRON ZOOLOGICAL PARK: $2,500 · Animals
Other$176,703Education$40,250Health$34,000Philanthropy$30,500Human Services$20,300Youth Development$6,000Animals$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetAKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,500 over 8y, 0.2% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 AKRON ZOOLOGICAL PARK ↗
  • Who funds In Education Inc ↗
  • Who funds SARAHS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds AKRON AIDS COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT ARTSPACE ↗

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 FoundationSynthomer Foundation …Akron Community Found…Burton D Morgan Found…Lehner Family Foundat…Northern Ohio Golf Ch…The Welty Family Foun…Sisler McFawn Foundat…Firstenergy FoundationMary S & David C Corb…Maynard Family Founda…Lloyd L & Louise K Sm…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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