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Jean P Wade Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2020
15
Grants FY2020
15
Organizations funded FY2020
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100% of Jean P Wade Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Akron Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Jean P Wade Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $18k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

9
’20
0
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$3,000
States reached, FY2020
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Philanthropy$381kArts & Culture$5kEducation$5kHealth$3kFood & Nutrition$3kHuman Services$2kYouth Development$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$250

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jean P Wade Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAkron Art Museum: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding Medina County: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOpening Act Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of Medina County: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHope and Healing Survivor Resource Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKhan Academy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild Guidance & Family Solutions: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Center of Medina County: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Synthomer Foundation IncOH15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Jean P Wade Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Jean P Wade Foundation

How much does Jean P Wade Foundation give?
Jean P Wade Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $18,250 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Jean P Wade Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (95%), Arts & Culture (1%), Education (1%).
Who are Jean P Wade Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Akron Art Museum ($3k), Feeding Medina County ($2k), Opening Act Inc ($1k).
Does Jean P Wade Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jean P Wade Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Synthomer Foundation Inc, The Westfield Insurance Foundation, Firstenergy Foundation.
Where is Jean P Wade Foundation based?
Jean P Wade Foundation is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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