· Private foundation
Harold & Catherine Folk Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of HAROLD & CATHERINE FOLK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHURCH | $8,000 |
| REGINA HEALTH CENTER | $7,000 |
| AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,850 |
| ST SEBASTIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
| FAIRLAWN CC FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HOLY NAME CATHEDRAL | $250 |
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 (FY20–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $78k · revenue +136%
- RHREGINA HEALTH CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +16%
- AAAKRON ART MUSEUM5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +166%
Funded once
- HFHELP FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +42%
- WSWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTERone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +14%
- UCURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +140%
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.
We, mount carmel and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mount carmel college of nursing is a member of mount carmel and trinity health.
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
We, mount carmel health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mount carmel health system is a member of trinity health.
To provide older adults with caring and quality services toward the enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well being consistent with the christian gospel.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
See schedule oto provide older adults with caring and quality services toward enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well-being consistent with the christian gospel. the organization is dedicated to living our mission and keeping…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Help Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Akron Art Museum. 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 66 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 56 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGINA HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JENNINGS CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESPITE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SANYUKA CHILDRENS MINISTRIES ↗
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 · Lehner Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Fw Albrecht Family Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · The Sam J Frankino Foundation · Gar Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Betty V and John M Jacobson Foundation · The Feth Family Foundation · The Huntington-Akron Foundation · Mg O'Neil 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 Harold & Catherine Folk Charitable 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 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.