· Private foundation
Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k61 grants · $278k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP | $20,000 |
| BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER | $15,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL | $15,000 |
| CONCORDIA OF OHIO | $15,000 |
| LAKE ERIE COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION | $12,000 |
| TALLMADGE CITY SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK | $10,000 |
| RAPE CRISIS CENTER | $10,000 |
| DANCING CLASSROOMS NORTHEAST OHIO | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| VICTORY GALLOP INC | $8,000 |
| STAN HYWET HALL GARDENS | $7,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY | $7,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $200k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 10 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- TWTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION5× · 2021–2025 · $68k · revenue +136%
- TMThe Musical Arts Association5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +14%
- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +16%
- GAGREATER AKRON AMENITIES INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue 0%
- SCSHELTER CARE INCone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -2%
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 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…
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
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
The ohio district 5 area agency on aging, inc. provides leadership, collaboration, coordination and services to older adults, people with disabilities, their caregivers and resource networks that support individual choice, independence and…
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
To enhance the quality of law and justice through community service and to maintain the integrity of the profession.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
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 Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial. 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 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
107 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. 107 of the 149 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 THE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds VICTORY GALLOP INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION INC DBA AKRON CIVIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds UNITED DISABILITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON ↗
- Who funds CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds CROWN POINT ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CASA BOARD VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO ↗
- Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AKRON MARATHON CHARITABLE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds SOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPING CONNECTIONS NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE GRIEFCARE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ART RESOURCES TRANSFORMATIONS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS 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: Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Gar Foundation · United Way of Summit and Medina · Synthomer Foundation Inc
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 Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial 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.