Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Gar Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $7.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,544,893
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $7,544,893
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 146
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $153M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Gar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $7.5M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $7.2M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $7.4M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $7.2M | 100% |
| FY2020 | 120 | $6.8M | 28% |
| FY2019 | 114 | $6.1M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 109 | $7.0M | 28% |
| FY2017 | 146 | $5.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Summit and Medina | $2,354,060 | 4 | 6% |
| The Community Hall Foundation Inc Dba Akron Civic Theatre | $1,149,050 | 4 | 16% |
| Fund for Our Economic Future of Northeast Ohio | $1,013,333 | 3 | 42% |
| Early Childhood Resource Center | $889,322 | 3 | 10% |
| Summit Education Initiative | $878,600 | 4 | 16% |
| Building for Tomorrow | $855,125 | 4 | 37% |
| Akron Art Museum | $645,500 | 4 | 6% |
| Artsnow | $564,413 | 4 | 76% |
| Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens Inc | $514,425 | 4 | 3% |
| Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition | $400,000 | 3 | 8% |
Show all 139 grantees
Plus 93 recipients with no EIN on record ($36M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 112 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: Akron Community Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · United Way of Summit and Medina · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · Synthomer Foundation Inc · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial
How this is measured
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About Gar Foundation
- How much does Gar Foundation give?
- Gar Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $7,544,893 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 146 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Gar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (10%), Education (7%), Community Improvement (7%).
- Who are Gar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Way of Summit and Medina ($2.4M), The Community Hall Foundation Inc Dba Akron Civic Theatre ($1.1M), Fund for Our Economic Future of Northeast Ohio ($1.0M).
- Does Gar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Akron Community Foundation, The Welty Family Foundation, Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn.
- Where is Gar Foundation based?
- Gar Foundation is based in PA.
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