· Private foundation
John & Roene Klusch Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Akron Canton Regional Food Bank | $10,000 |
| Alliance Community Pantry | $5,000 |
| University of Mount Union | $5,000 |
| Aviators Sports Boosters | $3,500 |
| Ben Curtis Foundation | $3,000 |
| Alliance Academic Recognition Dinner | $2,945 |
| University of Akron | $2,000 |
| Alliance High School | $1,900 |
| University of Toledo | $1,327 |
| Walsh University | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| St Leo University | $1,000 |
| Ohio University | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $31k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ASAVIATOR SPORTS BOOSTERS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +837% · 81% of their budget
- ACALLIANCE COMMUNITY PANTRY INC3× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +13% · 25% of their budget
- UOUniversity of Mount Union7× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- ACAlliance City Schoolsone grant, 2024 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $7k
- ACAlliance Community Soccer Clubone grant, 2022 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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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…
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
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How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AVIATOR SPORTS BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE COMMUNITY PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Mount Union ↗
- Who funds GREATER ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds Alliance Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF STARK & WAYNE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds VANTAGE AGING ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds John Carroll University ↗
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: Stark Community Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John & Roene Klusch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Roene Klusch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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