· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $248k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANTAGE AGING | $905,947 |
| AXESSPOINTE COMMUNITY | $584,580 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $225,667 |
| THOMAS LANE INC | $200,258 |
| FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $170,950 |
| CASLEO CORPORATION | $150,084 |
| PURFOODS LLC | $130,214 |
| SIMPLY EZ HOME DELIVERED MEALS OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO LLC | $116,565 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY-CANTON | $105,419 |
| JG BAHAS INC | $104,670 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP OF AKRON | $101,853 |
| YWCA OF ALLIANCE | $99,184 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES | $97,422 |
| MINERVA SENIOR CENTER | $74,873 |
| Individual grant recipient | $63,982 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $13.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 7 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $837k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CLCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID SERVICES8× · 2017–2025 · $808k · revenue +111%
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ALLIANCE OHIO8× · 2017–2025 · $578k · revenue +98%
- MAMINERVA AREA COMMISSION ON AGING8× · 2017–2025 · $439k · revenue +79% · 46% of their budget
Funded once
- ATACCESS TO INDEPENDENCEone grant, 2024 · $49k · revenue 0%
- JLJONESY'S LAWN CAREone grant, 2024 · $33k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY-CANTONone grant, 2017 · $32k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 75 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 VANTAGE AGING ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF STARK & WAYNE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ALLIANCE OHIO ↗
- Who funds MINERVA AREA COMMISSION ON AGING ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR BETTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACCESS TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds J R COLEMAN SENIOR OUTREACH ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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