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Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging
DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON AREA AGENCY ON AGING & disabilities provides older adults, people with disabilities and their caregivers long-term care choices and consumer protection so they can achieve the highest quality of life.
- $57M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $32,268
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $905,947
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 44
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $32M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $211k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $3.4M | 21% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $3.6M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $2.6M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $3.5M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $3.4M | 57% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $2.8M | 10% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $2.3M | 16% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vantage Aging | $7,053,275 | 8 | 11% |
| Family & Community Services Inc | $5,743,076 | 8 | 5% |
| Thomas Lane | $1,517,313 | 7 | n/a |
| Alzheimer's Association | $1,196,279 | 8 | n/a |
| Meals on Wheels of Stark & Wayne Counties | $952,000 | 2 | 27% |
| Alpha Phi Alpha Homes Inc | $897,424 | 8 | n/a |
| Community Legal Aid Services | $808,443 | 8 | 1% |
| Axess Family Services Inc | $584,580 | 1 | n/a |
| Young Women's Christian Association of Alliance Ohio | $578,282 | 8 | 19% |
| The Salvation Army | $513,242 | 7 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vantage Aging | $7,053,275 | 8 | 11% |
| Family & Community Services Inc | $5,743,076 | 8 | 5% |
| Thomas Lane | $1,517,313 | 7 | n/a |
| Alzheimer's Association | $1,196,279 | 8 | n/a |
| Meals on Wheels of Stark & Wayne Counties | $952,000 | 2 | 27% |
| Alpha Phi Alpha Homes Inc | $897,424 | 8 | n/a |
| Community Legal Aid Services | $808,443 | 8 | 1% |
| Axess Family Services Inc | $584,580 | 1 | n/a |
| Young Women's Christian Association of Alliance Ohio | $578,282 | 8 | 19% |
| The Salvation Army | $513,242 | 7 | n/a |
| Simply Ez Home Delivered Meals of Northeastern Ohio LLC | $455,272 | 3 | n/a |
| Minerva Area Commission on Aging | $438,817 | 8 | 46% |
| Akron Metro Regional Transit Authority | $188,057 | 8 | n/a |
| Association for Better Community Development Inc | $184,774 | 8 | 2% |
| Springfield Township Trustees | $174,392 | 8 | n/a |
| Casleo Corporation | $166,007 | 2 | n/a |
| Mom's Meals - Pur Foods LLC | $161,900 | 4 | n/a |
| Parta | $123,176 | 8 | n/a |
| Rodger That Heating and Cooling LLC | $114,691 | 2 | n/a |
| Jg Bahas Inc | $104,670 | 1 | n/a |
| Neighborhood Development Corporation | $101,853 | 1 | n/a |
| Asian Services in Action Inc | $89,560 | 7 | 0% |
| Nicoles Restaurtant | $84,642 | 2 | n/a |
| Summit County Children Services | $81,474 | 6 | n/a |
| Gilcrest Senior Center | $72,829 | 7 | n/a |
| Prestige Home Services | $66,930 | 3 | n/a |
| Direction Home Akron Canton Foundation | $61,555 | 3 | 0% |
| Williams Insurance Restoration Group | $60,332 | 3 | n/a |
| Interstate Systems Inc | $50,682 | 3 | n/a |
| Access to Independence | $48,852 | 1 | 3% |
| Creative Bath Systems | $41,560 | 2 | n/a |
| Dravenstotts Restaurant Inc | $40,529 | 3 | n/a |
| J R Coleman Senior Outreach | $37,370 | 2 | 1% |
| The Liberty Operating Co | $37,355 | 3 | n/a |
| Green Diamond Grille & Pub | $32,695 | 3 | n/a |
| Jonesy's Lawn Care | $32,625 | 1 | n/a |
| The Salvation Army-Canton | $32,326 | 1 | n/a |
| Variety's | $25,380 | 1 | n/a |
| Jin Huo Community Inc | $23,672 | 2 | 4% |
| L Pace Enterprises | $22,474 | 1 | n/a |
| Akron Summit Community Action Inc | $22,424 | 4 | 0% |
| 1644 LLC | $17,504 | 2 | n/a |
| US Home Remodeling | $15,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Djdsm LLC | $13,266 | 3 | n/a |
| Hoover Restaurant Inc | $11,302 | 2 | n/a |
| Magic City's Remarkable Diner | $10,030 | 2 | n/a |
| Mkc House of Hunan | $9,718 | 2 | n/a |
| Essenhaus Inc | $8,372 | 2 | n/a |
| Mandu Inc | $8,312 | 2 | n/a |
| Variety's | $8,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Install Tech Inc | $7,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Sarah Day Care Centers Inc | $7,795 | 1 | n/a |
| Decor Built Construction Inc | $7,701 | 1 | n/a |
| Rebuilding Together Northeast Ohio Inc | $7,425 | 1 | 0% |
| 3875 Cafe LLC - Sunrise Social | $7,375 | 1 | n/a |
| Lowry Heating and Cooling | $7,240 | 1 | n/a |
| The Salvation Army | $7,131 | 1 | n/a |
| Miller's Rental and Sales Company Inc | $5,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Mpglobal Connect Inc | $5,295 | 1 | n/a |
| Wiseman Inc | $2,910 | 1 | n/a |
| United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co | $2,280 | 1 | 0% |
| Newt's Place Inv | $1,020 | 1 | n/a |
| Alliance Restaurant Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Main Moon | $844 | 1 | n/a |
| Louisville Restaurant Inc | $696 | 1 | n/a |
| Tumsha LLC | $610 | 1 | n/a |
| William & Mary Inc | $510 | 1 | n/a |
| Rot Sorn | $334 | 1 | n/a |
| Everest Restaurant Inc | $170 | 1 | n/a |
| Flour Girls Inc Broken Rocks Care & Bakeryrox Gastropub | $142 | 1 | n/a |
| Grazers LLC | $140 | 1 | n/a |
| Two Serve You Inc | $30 | 1 | n/a |
| Casleo Corporation Dba Global Meals | $10 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($403k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Stark Community Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Stark County · United Way of Summit and Medina · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Lehner Family Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · The Welty Family Foundation · Gar Foundation · Wayne County Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging
- How much does Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging give?
- Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging reported 33 itemized grants totaling $3,436,433, out of $57,002,909 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (53%), Human Services (31%), Health (8%).
- Who are Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Vantage Aging ($7.1M), Family & Community Services Inc ($5.7M), Thomas Lane ($1.5M).
- Does Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stark Community Foundation, Akron Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Stark County.
- Where is Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging based?
- Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging is based in OH.
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