Ohio · Private foundation
Howland Memorial Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $150k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Howland Memorial Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $150k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $190k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $150k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $130k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $210k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $140k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $122k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $151k | 79% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akron Art Museum | $450,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Western Reserve Historical Society | $411,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Friends of Glendale Cemetery | $145,000 | 5 | 84% |
| Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park | $125,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Akron Children's Hospital Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Crown Point Ecology Center | $13,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Child Guidance & Family Solutions | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Embracing Futures Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Summit Choral Society Inc | $6,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($132k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Howland Memorial Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Howland Memorial Fund
- How much does Howland Memorial Fund give?
- Howland Memorial Fund reported 1 grants totaling $150,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Howland Memorial Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (69%), Environment (10%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are Howland Memorial Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Akron Art Museum ($450k), Western Reserve Historical Society ($411k), Friends of Glendale Cemetery ($145k).
- Does Howland Memorial Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Howland Memorial Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Howland Memorial Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Akron Community Foundation, The Welty Family Foundation, Lehner Family Foundation.
- Where is Howland Memorial Fund based?
- Howland Memorial Fund is based in OH.
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