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Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr at a glance

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Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$315k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$259kHuman Services$190kArts & Culture$189kReligion$121kFood & Nutrition$100kEducation$100kYouth Development$88kAnimals$52kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k47 grants · $225k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STAN HYWET HALL GARDENS$15,000
WALSH JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$15,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$13,000
AKRONCANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK$12,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ALCHEMY INC$10,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY$8,000
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS$8,000
BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER$8,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$7,500
VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM$7,500
AKRON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$7,500
STEWART'S CARING PLACE$7,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NE OHIO$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $5k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $5k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $5k → 17%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $8k → 13%ZANES INC: $3k → 13%ZANES INC: $3k → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $6k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $5k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $5k → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $4k → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $3k → 13%AKRON URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $8k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $6k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF AKRON: $10k → 13%ALCHEMY INC: $10k → 13%ALCHEMY INC: $1k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF AKRON: $4k → 13%JOANNA HOUSE II: $9k → 13%JOANNA HOUSE II: $8k → 13%OPEN M: $5k → 13%JOANNA HOUSE II: $5k → 13%BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER: $8k → 13%BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER: $4k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
AZ
NM
NC
DC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 66 repeat orgs$416k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
34

Total granted

$1.1M
$351k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
0%

Still filing today

56%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AR
    AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK
    4× · 2022–2025 · $42k · revenue +28%
  • AA
    AKRON ART MUSEUM
    3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +66%
  • JH
    JOANNA HOUSE II INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $22k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • SH
    STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -17%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +16%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +80%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Akron Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
2
Ohio State Bar Association

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.

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3
Akron Parks Collaborative

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…

Recreation & Sports
4
Ohio District 5 Area Agency On Aging Inc

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…

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5
Greater Akron Chamber

To promote business in the tri-county area

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6
Leadership Akron

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.

Education
7
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
8
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
9
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
10
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
11
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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12
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Akron Community Service Center & Urban League Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/66
Grantees still filing
29/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WALSH JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $32,000 · OtherBROKEN CHAINS MINISTRY: $30,500 · OtherSTAN HYWET HALL GARDENS: $30,000 · OtherAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $29,500 · Other+70 more: $748,898 · Other+70 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY…VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $23,500 · Human ServicesVICTIM ASSIST…JOANNA HOUSE II INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesJOANNA HOUSE …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $22,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nati…HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $19,500 · Human ServicesHOPE AND HEAL…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF AKRON OHIO: $13,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY…CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $12,900 · Human ServicesCHILD GUIDANC…ALCHEMY INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesALCHEMY INCCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE O…+4 more: $20,500 · Human Services+4 moreSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $30,500 · HealthSTEWART'S CAR…American Heart Association Inc: $25,000 · HealthAmerican Hear…PORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $25,000 · HealthPORTAGE PATH …COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC: $21,500 · HealthCOLEMAN PROFE…EMBRACING FUTURES INC: $19,000 · HealthEMBRACING FUT…VICTORY GALLOP INC: $18,500 · HealthVICTORY GALLO…REGINA HEALTH CENTER: $12,037 · HealthREGINA HEALTH…INTERVAL BROTHERHOOD HOMES INC: $10,000 · HealthINTERVAL BROT…DR BOB'S HOME: $9,800 · HealthDR BOB'S HOME+1 more: $4,500 · HealthSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSTAN HYWET H…AKRON ART MUSEUM: $25,500 · Arts & CultureAKRON ART MU…Greater Akron Musical Association Inc: $23,500 · Arts & CultureGreater Akro…WEATHERVANE PLAYHOUSE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWEATHERVANE …MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMILITARY AVI…CASE BARLOW FARM: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCASE BARLOW …Art Sparks: $11,500 · Arts & CultureArt SparksAkron History Center: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAkron Histor…DEVELOPING CONNECTIONS NORTHEAST OHIO: $9,000 · Arts & CultureDEVELOPING C…Childrens Concert Society: $6,000 · Arts & CultureHUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY: $39,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC: $8,000 · AnimalsAKRON ZOOLOGICAL PARK: $5,000 · AnimalsKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $24,500 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $15,500 · EducationTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $3,500 · EducationAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $42,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$870,898Human Services$179,900Health$175,837Arts & Culture$165,500Animals$52,000Education$43,500Food & Nutrition$42,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $42,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY: $39,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $30,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAKRON ART MUSEUM: $25,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $24,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $23,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGreater Akron Musical Association Inc: $23,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJOANNA HOUSE II INC: $22,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC: $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEATHERVANE PLAYHOUSE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $19,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEMBRACING FUTURES INC: $19,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetVICTORY GALLOP INC: $18,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $18,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCASE BARLOW FARM: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMOBILITY WORLDWIDE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGREAT TRAIL COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF AKRON OHIO: $13,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $12,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREGINA HEALTH CENTER: $12,037 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetArt Sparks: $11,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetALCHEMY INC: $11,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINTERVAL BROTHERHOOD HOMES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHERE'S HOPE HORSE FARM: $9,898 over 2y, 10% of budgetDR BOB'S HOME: $9,800 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED DISABILITY SERVICES INC: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOPING CONNECTIONS NORTHEAST OHIO: $9,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTRI COUNTY JOBS FOR OHIO'S GRADUATES: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION INC DBA AKRON CIVIC THEATRE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirls on the Run of Greater Summit Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohio: $7,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetChildrens Concert Society: $6,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetZANES INC: $5,500 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetKEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL: $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSUMMA FOUNDATION WILLIAM D PRATHER TREASURER: $5,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds PORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds Greater Akron Musical Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds JOANNA HOUSE II INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Sisler McFawn Foundat…Akron Community Found…Lloyd L & Louise K Sm…L R Moffitt & L W Mof…The Welty Family Foun…Charles E and Mabel M…Lehner Family Foundat…Glenn R & Alice V Bog…W Paul Mills & Thora …Mary S & David C Corb…United Way of Summit …Gar Foundation
Sisler McFawn Foundation PfdnOH86.4× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 114 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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