· Private foundation
Hoover Foundation Income Account
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $871k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $1,000,000 |
| ARTS IN STARK | $375,000 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $315,000 |
| COMMQUEST | $200,000 |
| CANTON FOR ALL PEOPLE | $150,000 |
| CANTON PALACE THEATRE | $150,000 |
| STARK EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP | $87,000 |
| AKRON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| LOUISVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $75,000 |
| BEACON CHARITABLE PHARMACY | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT | $65,000 |
| CANTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $55,000 |
| THE HOOVER FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| YMCA | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $614k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
113 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 62 since wound down; 9 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $444k 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
- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK3× · 2021–2023 · $553k · revenue +25%
- WUWalsh University Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $415k · revenue +3%
- TOTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES6× · 2018–2024 · $390k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- UWUnited Way of Greater Stark Countyone grant, 2021 · $320k · revenue -10%
- PFPRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAMEone grant, 2017 · $250k
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.
Advancement of the economic, industrial, professional, cultural and civic welfare of stark county and its surrounding region and the promotion and preservation of the competitive free enterprise system.
To promote the revitalization of neighborhoods in stark county by leading partnership-based, neighborhood-specific, revitalization efforts and developing programs that support community reinvestment.
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…
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
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 the Stark County Convention & Visitors' Bureau is to attract and engage visitors, serve and educate regional tourisim partners, and generate economic growth for the community through travel and tourism development.
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.
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
Economic & community development - restore and maintain healthy economic and social conditions in the city of canton and stark county and to support infrastructure expansion vital to economic growth.
As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.
To promote business in the tri-county area
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stark Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Canton Ex-Newsboys Association. 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 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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.
94 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. 94 of the 181 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 STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN STARK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds MALONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds STARK EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CANTON PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds University of Mount Union ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Stark County ↗
- Who funds STARK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF MASSILLON INC ↗
- Who funds Canton Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds STUMP HILL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds CANTON PALACE THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EN-RICH-MENT ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Central Stark County ↗
- Who funds AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hammer & Nails Inc ↗
- Who funds ICAN INC ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANTON FOR ALL PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Stark Parks ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COMMQUEST SERVICES 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.
Open a dossier: Stark Community Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · United Way of Greater Stark County · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · Albert W & Edith V Flowers Charitable · The Belden Brick Charitable Trust · Health Foundation of Greater Massillon · Diebold Employees Charitable Fd Ta · Premier Bank 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 Hoover Foundation Income Account 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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