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Leadership Akron

The mission of LEADERSHIP AKRON is to inspire, strengthen, and empower leaders.

$57k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Youth Development$34kEducation$25kHealth$17kCommunity Improvement$16kHousing & Shelter$14kReligion$14kFood & Nutrition$12kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $42,498 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $56,817 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,319 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$14,166
Median grant
1
States reached
$205k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACCESS INC$14,166
GUYS & GALS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC$14,166
THE VINCENT HOUSE$14,166
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AKRON AREA YMCA: $2k → 13%SOUTH STREET MINISTRIES: $3k → 13%PROJECT OUTRUN INC: $2k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Greater Akron Fore Youth Development Inc Formerly the First Tee of Akron

To impact the lives of kids in greater akron by providing educational programs that build character and instill life-enhancing values through the game of golf.

Recreation & Sports
2
Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland

To inspire and enable young people who need us most to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, caring citizens.

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3
Akron Youth Mentorship

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Youth Development
4
Boys and Girls Club of Wooster Inc

To provide boys and girls, grades three through twelve, with educational, social, recreational, and vocational experiences in safe, healthful, and positive environments.

Youth Development
5
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
6
Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio Education Coalition

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
7
Youth Success Summit

Galvanize the entire community to provide equitable and innovative opportunities where youth build essential skills needed for success in life.

Education
8
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
9
Greater Akron Chamber

To promote business in the tri-county area

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10
Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc

To enable young people to reach their full potential

Youth Development
11
Girls On the Run of Central Ohio

We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.

Youth Development
12
Club Ohio Soccer Inc

Club ohio soccer is designed and structured to meet the needs of the elite boy's and girl's club soccer player who aspires to play at the highest level of competition. to be successful at the regional and national level, it's necessary to…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Excellence Performing Arts Workshop and the most unlike its peers is Dreams Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr14%24%5–10yr17%10%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr17%14%35–55yr17%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr14%30%5–10yr17%8%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr17%25%35–55yr17%6%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
13%
420/3,221

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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITIZENS AKRON CHURCH — $14,166 · OtherCITIZENS AKRON CHURCHACCESS INC — $14,166 · OtherACCESS INCSHANTI COMMUNITY FARMS INC — $10,000 · OtherSHANTI COMMUNITY FARMS INCREACHING ABOVE HOPELESSNESS & BROKENNESS MINISTRIES INC — $7,800 · OtherREACHING ABOVE HOPELESSNESS & BROKENNESS MINIST…Truly Reaching You Inc — $7,500 · OtherTruly Reaching You IncSOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC — $3,000 · Other+6 more — $11,000 · Other+6 moreTORCHBEARERS — $19,000 · Youth DevelopmentTORCHBEARERSINTERNATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY INC — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentINTERNATIONAL SOAP…GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NOR…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLU…STARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,735 · EducationSTARK STATE COLL…PROJECT GRAD AKRON — $6,000 · EducationPROJECT GRAD AKR…Dreams Academy — $2,000 · EducationDreams AcademyGUYS & GALS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC — $14,166 · Public BenefitGUYS & GAL…YOUTH EXCELLENCE PERFORMING ARTS WORKSHOP — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 · Community ImprovementAKRON INNER CITY SOCCER CLUB — $9,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$67,632Youth Development$26,000Education$23,735Public Benefit$14,166Arts & Culture$10,000Community Improvement$10,000Recreation & Sports$9,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTORCHBEARERS — $19,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetSTARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,735 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGUYS & GALS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC — $14,166 over 1y, 11% of budgetYOUTH EXCELLENCE PERFORMING ARTS WORKSHOP — $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAKRON INNER CITY SOCCER CLUB — $9,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetREACHING ABOVE HOPELESSNESS & BROKENNESS MINISTRIES INC — $7,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTruly Reaching You Inc — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT GRAD AKRON — $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREAT TRAIL COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDreams Academy — $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPROJECT OUTRUN INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLETS GROW AKRON INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AKRON INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Akron Community Found…Gar FoundationSisler McFawn Foundat…L R Moffitt & L W Mof…United Way of Summit …The Welty Family Foun…Northern Ohio Golf Ch…Burton D Morgan Found…Glenn R & Alice V Bog…W Paul Mills & Thora …Mary S & David C Corb…Lloyd L & Louise K Sm…
Akron Community FoundationOH37.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · Gar Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · United Way of Summit and Medina · The Welty Family Foundation · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith 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 Leadership Akron 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.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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