· Private foundation
Betty V and John M Jacobson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STAN HYWET HALL AND GARDENS | $21,645 |
| OPEN M | $20,000 |
| K OF C COUNCIL 10936 | $11,500 |
| ACCESS | $10,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | $10,000 |
| HE BROUGHT US OUT MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| DRAGON DREAM TEAM | $10,000 |
| BROKEN CHAINS MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC | $10,000 |
| SUMMIT FRESH MOBILE MARKET | $5,000 |
| SHELTER CARE | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- SHSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC6× · 2019–2025 · $98k · revenue +34%
NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +46%- HBHE BROUGHT US OUT MINISTRY4× · 2019–2025 · $40k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -8%
- BCBROKEN CHAINSone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
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…
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
The cleveland rape crisis center is a non-profit organization which supports survivors of sexual violence, promotes healing and prevention, and advocates for social change.
To help people discover a lifestyle of meaning joy and fulfillment through treatment and training. emerge ministries inc. is devoted to serving our clients. this service encompasses a biblically based mental health center with…
The hospice of dayton, inc. is committed to making quality hospice care available and accessible to terminally ill persons and their families, regardless of ability to pay, and in a manner consistent with the highest hospice standards. our…
To provide quality, culturally sensitive and accessible primary health care services focusing on the medically underserved, underinsured, and uninsured residing in northern hamilton county and surrounding areas.
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…
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…
Patients of hospice of central ohio receive compassionate, individualized end-of-life care. their desires guide the physical, emotional, and spiritual care support we provide. members of our community, patient's families, children, and…
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
See schedule oto provide older adults with caring and quality services toward enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well-being consistent with the christian gospel. the organization is dedicated to living our mission and keeping…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stewart's Caring Place Inc and Subsidiary and the most unlike its peers is Akron Art Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 29 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 STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds HE BROUGHT US OUT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds DRAGON DREAM TEAM ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HEART TO HEART LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROWN POINT ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO ↗
- Who funds RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT FRESH MOBILE MARKET ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SHELTER CARE INC ↗
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: The Welty Family Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Gar Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · United Way of Summit and Medina · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Lehner Family 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 Betty V and John M Jacobson Foundation 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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