· Private foundation
Biery Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALSH UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| CANTON PALACE THEATRE | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO | $20,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION | $10,000 |
| HANNAH HOUSE | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER STARK COUNTY | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| COPELAND OAKS | $5,000 |
| CANTON BALLET | $5,000 |
| LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| LOUISVILLE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ST JOSEPH PARISH | $1,000 |
| LOUISVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $675 |
| MASSILLON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $500 |
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 (FY22–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- WUWalsh University Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $330k · revenue +3%
- UOUniversity of Mount Union9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +37%
- CBCANTON BALLET4× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- LHLOUISVILLE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $55k
- ADAGRICULTURAL DESIGN INCone grant, 2023 · $31k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
The mission of calvin university is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.
We, mount carmel and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mount carmel college of nursing is a member of mount carmel and trinity health.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Louisville Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 37 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 Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Mount Union ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Stark County ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CANTON PALACE THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CANTON BALLET ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN STARK ↗
- Who funds COPELAND OAKS ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION NO COLORADO ↗
- Who funds MALONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Timken Foundation of Canton · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · The Belden Brick Charitable Trust · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Ervin & Marie Wilkof Foundation · The Fitzpatrick Foundation Inc · Ada C Rank & Helen J Rank Charitable · Diebold Employees Charitable Fd Ta · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · Doris & Floyd Kimble Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton
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 Biery Family Foundation Inc 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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