· Private foundation
Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $225k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALSH JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $15,000 |
| STAN HYWET HALL GARDENS | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $13,000 |
| AKRONCANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ALCHEMY INC | $10,000 |
| BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER | $8,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY | $8,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | $8,000 |
| VILLAGE OF ST EDWARD | $7,500 |
| STEWART'S CARING PLACE | $7,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NE OHIO | $7,500 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| AKRON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $7,500 |
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 (FY22–25, $180k) 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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
66 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 13 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK4× · 2022–2025 · $42k · revenue +28%
- AAAKRON ART MUSEUM3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +66%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2022–2023 · $22k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- SHSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -17%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +16%
- PPPORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +19%
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 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…
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
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…
The ohio district 5 area agency on aging, inc. provides leadership, collaboration, coordination and services to older adults, people with disabilities, their caregivers and resource networks that support individual choice, independence and…
To promote business in the tri-county area
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.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Akron Community Service Center & Urban League Inc and the most unlike its peers is Case Barlow Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 114 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-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Akron Musical Association Inc ↗
- Who funds VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds JOANNA HOUSE II INC ↗
- Who funds COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WEATHERVANE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY GALLOP INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA ↗
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: Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Akron Community Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · Lehner Family Foundation · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · United Way of Summit and Medina · Gar 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 Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr 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.