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Greater Alliance Foundation Inc

To provide individuals and other entities interested in the quality of life in the alliance area the opportunity to direct their giving towards identifiable and worthy needs that sometimes go unmet by established charitable resources.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.3MHuman Services$1.4MArts & Culture$908kReligion$866kAnimals$643kHealth$611kPhilanthropy$517kRecreation & Sports$365kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $1,437,942, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,578,199 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $140,257 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $376k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $756k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$17,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWCA OF ALLIANCE$250,045
UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION$197,500
ALLIANCE AREA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER$167,235
RAPTOR HALLOW SANCTUARY$114,141
ALLIANCE FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC$97,000
CARNATION CITY PLAYERS$76,000
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC$54,386
ELLIE'S RAINY DAY FUND$50,000
ALLIANCE FAMILY YMCA$47,933
STUCKEY FAMILY INTERFAITH DEVELOPMENT CENTER$43,694
ASPIRE MINISTRIES$40,000
ALLIANCE PREGNANCY CENTER$38,197
BEECH CREEK BOTANICAL GARDEN AND NATURE PRESERVE$34,810
CITY OF ALLIANCE$34,575
CAMP INVENTION - NATIONAL INVENTOR'S HALL OF FAME$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $246k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MANDEL JCCCAMP WISE: $10k → 17%ASPIRE MINISTRIES: $40k → 17%JAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%LOVE INC OF MARION COUNTY: $40k → 17%JAMES LENOX HOUSE INC: $9k → 17%ASPIRE MINISTRIES: $35k → 17%JAMES LENOX HOUSE INC: $5k → 17%YMCA OF CENTRAL STARK COUNTY: $32k → 13%YMCA OF CENTRAL STARK COUNTY: $11k → 13%YMCA OF CENTRAL STARK COUNTY: $7k → 13%COMMQUEST SERVICES INC: $15k → 13%ALLIANCE COMMUNITY PANTRY: $18k → 13%ALLIANCE COMMUNITY PANTRY: $14k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
OH
PA
CA
UT
MD
NC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 50 repeat orgs$656k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
31

Total granted

$8.0M
$544k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+58%

Still filing today

66%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    University of Mount Union
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +37%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ALLIANCE OHIO
    8× · 2018–2025 · $720k · revenue +98% · 27% of their budget
  • IC
    Interfaith Child Development Center of Alliance Ohio
    9× · 2017–2025 · $593k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • S
    STARKFRESHgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $104k · revenue +71% · 31% of their budget
  • SA
    STARK ATHLETIC ENHANCEMENT CORP
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue -51%
  • ST
    ST THOMAS AQUINAS
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Alliance Community Health Foundation

The alliance community health foundation's mission is to support the health care needs of the residents of alliance, ohio.

Health
2
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
3
Ohio Alliance of Ymca's

We are a grassroots driven and governed organization that advocates and educates on behalf of the YMCAs and its mission, upholding the four core YMCA values of caring, honestly, respect, and responsibility. The Alliance also fosters…

Community Improvement
4
Akron Community Foundation

To identify, activate, and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community. we accomplish this by:- building a permanent source of charitable funding- cultivating strategic…

Philanthropy
5
United Way of Greater Lima Inc

United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.

—
6
West Ohio Community Action Partnership

Organized for the purpose of creating, developing and effecting programs and projects designed to enhance the economic development of Allen, Auglaize, and Mercer Counties and its citizens, particularly to those areas of the community and…

Community Improvement
7
Ohio Tri County Food Alliance Dba Second Harvest Food Bank

The mission of ohio tri county food alliance/second harvest food bank is to alleviate hunger in clark, champaign, and logan counties by sourcing and distributing nutritious food to people in need, building community partnerships, and…

Food & Nutrition
8
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
9
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
10
United Way of Cleveland County Inc

The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.

Philanthropy
11
Donor Alliance Inc

Donor Alliance saves and heals lives through organ and tissue donation. Donor Alliance is one of 55 Federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organizations serving Colorado and most of Wyoming. Additionally, it is a member of the…

Health
12
Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati

To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance Family Health Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is California Lutheran University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 89 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
41/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ALLIANCE OHIO: $720,044 · OtherYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ALLIANCE OHIOInterfaith Child Development Center of Alliance Ohio: $592,874 · OtherInterfaith Child Development Center of Alliance OhioPACE DBA ALLIANCE AREA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER: $460,416 · OtherPACE DBA ALLIANCE AREA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTERFRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC: $260,726 · OtherALLIANCE FAMILY YMCA: $255,638 · OtherHARMONY CREEK CHURCH: $217,000 · OtherALLIANCE CITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT: $190,654 · OtherBotanical Garden Association Inc: $175,344 · Other+55 more: $2,160,665 · Other+55 moreUniversity of Mount Union: $1,064,972 · EducationUniversity of …+6 more: $67,520 · Education+6 moreGREENE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Stark County: $235,700 · PhilanthropyMARION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $170,395 · PhilanthropyGREATER ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 · PhilanthropyCastle Crusaders: $501,098 · Arts & CultureCarnation City Players Inc: $76,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $65,200 · Arts & CultureCanton Symphony Orchestra Association: $22,850 · Arts & CultureEllies Rainy Day Fund Inc: $410,500 · AnimalsRAPTOR HALLOW SANCTUARY: $215,141 · Animals+1 more: $5,500 · AnimalsEarly Childhood Education Alliance: $469,667 · Youth DevelopmentBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $53,990 · Youth DevelopmentASPIRE MINISTRIES INC: $345,000 · Human ServicesYMCA of Central Stark County: $50,160 · Human ServicesALLIANCE COMMUNITY PANTRY INC: $32,582 · Human ServicesJAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $23,625 · Human Services+2 more: $25,000 · Human Services
Other$5,033,361Education$1,132,492Philanthropy$687,095Arts & Culture$665,148Animals$631,141Youth Development$523,657Human Services$476,367

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Mount Union: $1,064,972 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ALLIANCE OHIO: $720,044 over 8y, 27% of budgetInterfaith Child Development Center of Alliance Ohio: $592,874 over 9y, 9.4% of budgetCastle Crusaders: $501,098 over 6y, 100% of budgetEarly Childhood Education Alliance: $469,667 over 8y, 33% of budgetPACE DBA ALLIANCE AREA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER: $460,416 over 6y, 21% of budgetEllies Rainy Day Fund Inc: $410,500 over 7y, 54% of budgetASPIRE MINISTRIES INC: $345,000 over 9y, 54% of budgetGREENE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Stark County: $235,700 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetRAPTOR HALLOW SANCTUARY: $215,141 over 4y, 42% of budgetBotanical Garden Association Inc: $175,344 over 5y, 11% of budgetMARION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $170,395 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetALLIANCE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $162,450 over 6y, 17% of budgetAlliance Family Health Center Inc: $155,746 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSTARKFRESH: $104,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetALLIANCE PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $102,142 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetAlliance Area Development: $95,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetSTARK ATHLETIC ENHANCEMENT CORP: $80,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCarnation City Players Inc: $76,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $65,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $53,990 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA of Central Stark County: $50,160 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $39,900 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetALLIANCE COMMUNITY PANTRY INC: $32,582 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetGREATER ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetOconomowoc Food Pantry Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMarlington Alumni Association: $29,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetSTARK COUNTY DISTRICT LIBRARY: $25,820 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEGASUS FARM: $24,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $23,625 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCanton Symphony Orchestra Association: $22,850 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $17,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Greening Corp: $16,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetALLIANCE AREA SENIOR CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCOMMQUEST SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPROHEALTH HOME CARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeacon Charitable Pharmacy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStark County Hunger Task Force Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARTVILLE MIGRANT COUNCIL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget
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 University of Mount Union ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ALLIANCE OHIO ↗
  • Who funds Interfaith Child Development Center of Alliance Ohio ↗
  • Who funds Castle Crusaders ↗
  • Who funds Early Childhood Education Alliance ↗
  • Who funds PACE DBA ALLIANCE AREA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds Ellies Rainy Day Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASPIRE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Stark County ↗
  • Who funds RAPTOR HALLOW SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds Botanical Garden Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds MARION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds Alliance Family Health Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds STARKFRESH ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Alliance Area Development ↗
  • Who funds STARK ATHLETIC ENHANCEMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds Carnation City Players Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds YMCA of Central Stark County ↗
  • Who funds SISTERS OF CHARITY FOUNDATION OF CANTON ↗
  • Who funds CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE COMMUNITY PANTRY 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.

Stark Community Found…United Way of Greater…Sisters of Charity Fo…Hoover Foundation Inc…Timken Co Charitable …North Canton Medical …Christ FoundationSangree FoudationDiebold Employees Cha…Austin-Bailey Health …Akron Community Found…Health Foundation of …
Stark Community FoundationOH48.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stark Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Stark County · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · North Canton Medical Foundation · Christ Foundation · Sangree Foudation · Diebold Employees Charitable Fd Ta · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Health Foundation of Greater Massillon

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Greater Alliance Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Alliance Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Community Greening Corp: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Greater Alliance Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 89 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 →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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