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Gynn Cardis Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENT CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| STOW SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| MAYFIELD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| HUDSON COMMUNITY LIVING | $4,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $1,000 |
| KNOWLEDGE IS CANCERS KRYPTONITE | $1,000 |
| BRAIN INJURY RECOVERY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| NORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM | $1,000 |
| FIRST TEE - GREATER AKRON | $510 |
| YORK STREET PROJECT | $500 |
| VASARI CARES FOUNDATION | $200 |
| THE EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN | $100 |
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 (FY23–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- HCHUDSON COMMUNITY LIVING COMPANY3× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +364%
- NONORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +35%
- KIKNOWLEDGE IS CANCERS KRYPTONITE2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- MCMAYFIELD CITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $3k
- KCKENT CITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $3k
- YHYOUTH HAVEN INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +9%
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 homeless families foundation educates and nurtures children while empowering families to achieve stable housing and self-sufficiency.
Providing veteran's children with scholarships.
The Foundation's purpose is to provide educational opportunities for students and provide the funds to materially update athletic facilities for the Three Rivers Local School District.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York Street Project and the most unlike its peers is Hudson Community Living Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 19 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 STOW SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENT CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mayfield Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUDSON COMMUNITY LIVING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM ↗
- Who funds KNOWLEDGE IS CANCERS KRYPTONITE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY RECOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VASARI CARES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER AKRON FORE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC FORMERLY THE FIRST TEE OF AKRON ↗
- Who funds YORK STREET PROJECT ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
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.
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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 Gynn Cardis 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- York Street Project — 32% of income from government
- Youth Haven Inc — 0% of income from government
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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