· Private foundation
Gpd Group Employees Foundation Inc
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 $10k188 grants · $713k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $321k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOLLY PARTON'S IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF OHIO | $33,000 |
| AKRON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| A KID AGAIN - INDIANA CHAPTER | $25,000 |
| AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK | $20,000 |
| PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| A KID AGAIN INC | $15,000 |
| FIRST TEE - GREATER AKRON | $15,000 |
| VICTORY GALLOP | $15,000 |
| AUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER AKRON | $15,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO | $15,000 |
| WOOSTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $14,500 |
| THE HUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| GAHANNA-JEFFERSON PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $11,026 |
| REPLAY FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $524k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Gpd Group Employees Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
252 repeat relationships — 126 still active in FY2025, 126 since wound down; 42 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k 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
- AKA KID AGAIN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $224k · revenue +210%
- GAGREATER AKRON FORE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC FORMERLY THE FIRST TEE OF AKRON9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +31%
- PHPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +201%
Funded once
- NONORTHERN OHIO GOLF CHARITIES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -8%
- BCBEREA CITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $20k
- UWUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINAone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -63%
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.
The primary mission of the golden key center for exceptional children is to provide quality education and intervention services to students with developmental disabilities.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
In collaboration with community partners, project grad akron will provide a system of programs, supports, and scholarships for underrepresented students to achieve success from pre-kindergarten through career.
The ohio coalition for the education of children with disabilities is a collaboration of parents, professionals, and partners advocating for children with disabilities to receive the educational services, experiences, and supports they…
Our mission is to empower children and adults with disabilities and (continued on schedule o) their families to achieve their greatest potential through holistic and family-focused services.
The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.
Advocates for Kids is committed to providing service and/or supporting organizations that serve children by providing experiences that empower them to realize their full potential. Advocates for Kids envisions children achieving a clearer…
Open doors academy (oda) provides year-round out-of-school time academic and enrichment programs to youth living in underserved communities. oda is based in cleveland, ohio and operates programs in northeast and northwest ohio. oda…
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
The mission of shoes and clothes for kids is to break barriers to school attendance by providing new shoes, clothes, and school supplies for students in need.
Sewall child development center provides inclusive and joyful learning environments.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Help Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
174 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. 174 of the 422 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 A KID AGAIN INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER AKRON FORE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC FORMERLY THE FIRST TEE OF AKRON ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER AKRON ↗
- Who funds AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds VICTORY GALLOP INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY INC ↗
- Who funds ELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of Greater Summit Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohio ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds REPLAY FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds SMILES WITH STYLE INC ↗
- Who funds Art Sparks ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds Inspiring Minds ↗
- Who funds ALVIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · The Welty Family Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · United Way of Summit and Medina · Firstenergy Foundation · Synthomer Foundation Inc · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Cleveland Foundation
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 Gpd Group Employees Foundation Inc 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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