· Private foundation
Jah Foundation
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 $10k25 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CUYAHOGA FALLS GOOD NEIGHBORS | $15,000 |
| ST VINCENT- ST MARY HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| OPEN M | $7,500 |
| HATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| TRULY REACHING YOU MINISTRIES | $7,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $6,000 |
| PETER MAURIN CENTER | $6,000 |
| ST JOSEPH PARISH | $5,000 |
| IBH ADDICTION RECOVERY | $5,000 |
| REGINA HEALTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| GRACE HOUSE | $5,000 |
| WALSH JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| AKRON CANTON FOODBANK | $5,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTER | $4,000 |
| STEWART'S CARING PLACE | $3,000 |
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, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
33 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- HLHATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +31%
- RHREGINA HEALTH CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +28%
- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- ZIZANES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +59%
- HFHIRAM FARMone grant, 2017 · $2k
- ZFZANE'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Hope crisis center provides crisis line services and shelter to domestic violence and sexual assault victims
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
To provide quality, culturally sensitive and accessible primary health care services focusing on the medically underserved, underinsured, and uninsured residing in northern hamilton county and surrounding areas.
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
To provide residential care and services to handicapped citizens of northern ohio.
To promote mental health research in medical developments
Hospice of northwest ohio provides specialized medical emotional and spiritual care to people of all ages - and their families - living with any end-stage illness in northwest ohio and southeast michigan
Emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence.
To help people discover a lifestyle of meaning joy and fulfillment through treatment and training. emerge ministries inc. is devoted to serving our clients. this service encompasses a biblically based mental health center with…
To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.
Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Rape Crisis Center and the most unlike its peers is Bags of Love. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 40 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 OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGINA HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds INTERVAL BROTHERHOOD HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HERE'S HOPE HORSE FARM ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Empowering Epilepsy ↗
- Who funds ZANES INC ↗
- Who funds Art Sparks ↗
- Who funds BAGS OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds THE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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 · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · The Welty Family Foundation · United Way of Summit and Medina · Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Gar Foundation · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc
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 Jah 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.
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