· Private foundation
Gar Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RECIPIENT STATEMENT ATTACHED | $7,544,893 |
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 (FY17–20, $3.7M) 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 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 +41% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
122 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 121 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 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
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION INC DBA AKRON CIVIC THEATRE4× · 2017–2020 · $1.1M · revenue +64%
- FFFUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO3× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +263% · 42% of their budget
- ECEARLY CHILDHOOD RESOURCE CENTER3× · 2018–2020 · $889k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- GAGREATER AKRON CHAMBERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $235k · revenue +58%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIOone grant, 2020 · $110k · revenue +22%
- ACAKRON CIVIC THEATREone grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
To engage the akron, ohio community around the creation and sustainability of vibrant public spaces within the city of akron. we foster and support neighborhood park advocates by enabling them to meet their goals, partner with the city and…
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…
Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.
Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.
The mission of the Akron History Center is to create an enduring long-lasting free museum-quality exhibit about Akrons history that inspires residents educates young people and welcomes visitors to our community.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
To provide a continuum of musical training for young children through senior adults, produce exceptional choral performances and preserve the art of choral music for the enrichment and enjoyment of the greater akron community.
The chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.
The cleveland arts prize identifies, rewards, publicly honors and promotes those creative artists whose original work and accomplishments have set a standard of excellence to which other artists can aspire. additionally, the cleveland arts…
How this is measured
129 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 129 of the 235 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION INC DBA AKRON CIVIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT EDUCATION INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BUILDING FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ARTSNOW ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds AKRON DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONXUSNEO ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN AKRON PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds STARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Art Sparks ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds GREATER AKRON CHAMBER ↗
- Who funds Greater Akron Musical Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds PROJECT GRAD AKRON ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALCHEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WEATHERVANE COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AKRON INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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