· Private foundation
Fw Albrecht Family Foundation
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 $10k45 grants · $175k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $184k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | $50,000 |
| ART SPARKS | $30,000 |
| CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| MAIN STREET MEDINA | $25,000 |
| BETTER KENMORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DAY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| MAGIC THEATRE COMPANY | $15,000 |
| AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $14,000 |
| STEWARTS CARING PLACE | $10,000 |
| RESNIK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| AKRON SUMMIT COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| SHAW JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $9,000 |
| AKRON ART MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| STAN HWYET HALL AND GARDENS | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +23% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 14 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
- ASArt Sparks4× · 2021–2025 · $77k · revenue +71%
- OTOLD TRAIL SCHOOL4× · 2020–2024 · $66k · revenue +17%
- AAAKRON ART MUSEUM7× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $170k
- GAGREATER AKRON AMENITIES INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue 0%
- FAFIRESTONE AKRON SWIM TEAMone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -12%
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.
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…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…
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…
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…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
Union college, chartered by the state of new york in 1795, is one of the nation's oldest and most distinguished liberal arts colleges with engineering. consistently ranked among the nation's top colleges, union is a leader in educating…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens Inc and the most unlike its peers is Adam Grigas Memorial Scholarship Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 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) — 3% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 183 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 Art Sparks ↗
- Who funds OLD TRAIL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GREAT TRAIL COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds FIRESTONE HIGH AQUATIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT OUTRUN INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET MEDINA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER AKRON AMENITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO ↗
- Who funds FMI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRESTONE AKRON SWIM TEAM ↗
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: Akron Community Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · The Welty Family Foundation · Gar Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Hudson Community Foundation · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial
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 Fw Albrecht Family Foundation 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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