Ohio · Public charity
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.
- $57k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $42k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $14,166
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $14,166
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $205k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Leadership Akron funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $42k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $16k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $19k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $38k | 90% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $22k | 86% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $13k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Torchbearers | $19,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Stark State College Foundation | $15,735 | 1 | 0% |
| Guys & Gals Community Partnership Inc | $14,166 | 1 | 11% |
| Citizens Akron Church | $14,166 | 1 | n/a |
| Access Inc | $14,166 | 1 | 0% |
| The Well Community Development Corporation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shanti Community Farms Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Youth Excellence Performing Arts Workshop | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Akron Inner City Soccer Club | $9,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Reaching Above Hopelessness & Brokenness Ministries Inc | $7,800 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Torchbearers | $19,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Stark State College Foundation | $15,735 | 1 | 0% |
| Guys & Gals Community Partnership Inc | $14,166 | 1 | 11% |
| Citizens Akron Church | $14,166 | 1 | n/a |
| Access Inc | $14,166 | 1 | 0% |
| The Well Community Development Corporation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shanti Community Farms Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Youth Excellence Performing Arts Workshop | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Akron Inner City Soccer Club | $9,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Reaching Above Hopelessness & Brokenness Ministries Inc | $7,800 | 1 | 1% |
| Truly Reaching You Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Project Grad Akron | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| International Soap Box Derby Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| South Street Mnistries Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Portage Lakes Polar Bear Club | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Outrun Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Girl Scouts of North East Ohio | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dreams Academy | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Great Trail Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Akron Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lets Grow Akron Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Akron Children's Hospital Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leadership Akron supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Leadership Akron
- How much does Leadership Akron give?
- Leadership Akron reported 3 itemized grants totaling $42,498, out of $56,817 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Leadership Akron fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (21%), Education (15%), Health (11%).
- Who are Leadership Akron's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Torchbearers ($19k), Stark State College Foundation ($16k), Guys & Gals Community Partnership Inc ($14k).
- Does Leadership Akron fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Leadership Akron?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Akron Community Foundation, Gar Foundation, Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn.
- Where is Leadership Akron based?
- Leadership Akron is based in OH.
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