· Private foundation
Howland Memorial Fund
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Akron Art Museum | $150,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 95% 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.
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 Howland Memorial Fund’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, 100% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 96% — 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.
9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- AAAKRON ART MUSEUM4× · 2022–2025 · $450k · revenue +66%
- WRWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2017–2023 · $411k · revenue +1%
- FOFriends of Glendale Cemetery5× · 2018–2024 · $145k · revenue +102% · 84% of their budget
Funded once
- ACAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +38%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $14k
- CGCHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONSone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -23%
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.
To engage the akron, ohio community around the creation and sustainability of vibrant public spaces within the city of akron. we foster and support neighborhood park advocates by enabling them to meet their goals, partner with the city and…
Akron soul train (ast) is a multidisciplinary residency program that provides 12-15 artists each year with paid residencies. our mission is to offer ohio-based visual, performing, and literary artists the space, time, and financial…
The society was founded in 1924 for the original purpose of writing a centenniaal history of akron, ohio. today, our mission is to preserve and interpret the history of summit county and akron, and to educate regional communities about the…
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
Non profit historical society
Museum
Summit artspace connects artists and artist-serving organizations to the community and to the resources they need to thrive professionally, creatively, and financially. its core values of creativity, collaboration, and community guide the…
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
The mission of leadership akron is to inspire, strengthen, and empower leaders. our purpose is to unlock the potential of leaders and serve as a catalyst that drives them to create a greater akron.
We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.
To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Glendale Cemetery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 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) — 0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 42 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 AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Friends of Glendale Cemetery ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROWN POINT ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds Summit Choral Society Inc ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds ART RESOURCES TRANSFORMATIONS ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA VALLEY PRESERVATION AND SCENIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BUILDING FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds CHAIR-ITY ↗
- Who funds SAINT SEBASTIAN PARISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADE LOCKS PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Shepherds House of Portage County ↗
- Who funds SOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE KELLY REEVES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERVAL BROTHERHOOD HOMES 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: Akron Community Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Gar Foundation · United Way of Summit and Medina · Firstenergy 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 Howland Memorial Fund 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.