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Direction Home Akron Canton Foundation

The direction home foundation seeks to transform the experience of aging in portage, stark, summit & wayne counties. Through investment in programs and outreach activities direction home impacts aging with the vision to "optimize aging through resource creation & innovation".

$401k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$400,978
Largest grant, FY2024
$400,978
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$31M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Direction Home Akron Canton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$401k0%
FY20231$799k0%
FY20201$193kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$1.4M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging$1,393,00031%

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About Direction Home Akron Canton Foundation

How much does Direction Home Akron Canton Foundation give?
Direction Home Akron Canton Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $400,978 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Direction Home Akron Canton Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (100%).
Who are Direction Home Akron Canton Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging ($1.4M).
Does Direction Home Akron Canton Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Direction Home Akron Canton Foundation based?
Direction Home Akron Canton Foundation is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

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Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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