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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $42,498, the rows itemized in this filing. The $56,817 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,319 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
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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 (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 its 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
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.
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 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
Youth Success Summit

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

Education
2
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
3
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
4
Ohio Urban Renaissance

Our mission is to establish and maintain an inclusive brand that serves as the foundational platform for youth outreach and community development efforts through programmatic initiatives that promote positive outcomes and progressive…

Youth Development
5
Akron Youth Mentorship

Akron nbsp;youth nbsp;mentorship nbsp;(aym) nbsp;exists nbsp;to nbsp;mentor nbsp;youth nbsp;in nbsp;biblical nbsp;teaching nbsp;to nbsp;make nbsp;life apos;s nbsp;eternal nbsp;emotional nbsp;educational nbsp;and nbsp;occupational…

Youth Development
6
Outreach for Youth of Columbus

Outreach ministries is a residential program focused on the restoration of men in crisis, offering a christian faith-based solution to freedom from addiction while addressing needs like homelessness, joblessness, and hopelessness. through…

Religion
7
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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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
Girls on the Run of Greater Summit Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohio

Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohio inspires girls in grades 3-8 to be joyful, healthy and confident through a research-based program that integrates physical activity with life skills development.

Youth Development
10
Soul Foundation

A non profit committed to providing youth with educational leadership and mentorship opportunities

Education
11
Cleveland Freedom Project

Youth-led Cultivators

Youth Development
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Street Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Soap Box Derby Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 23 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLU…GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NOR…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…THE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementYOUTH EXCELLENCE PERFORMING ARTS WORKSHOP: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAKRON INNER CITY SOCCER CLUB: $9,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$67,632Youth Development$26,000Education$23,735Public Benefit$14,166Community Improvement$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000Recreation & Sports$9,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetACCESS INC: $14,166 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH EXCELLENCE PERFORMING ARTS WORKSHOP: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% 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 budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT OUTRUN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDreams Academy: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGREAT TRAIL COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AKRON INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLETS GROW AKRON INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 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.

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.

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

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 Leadership Akron funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leadership Akron. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    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 23 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 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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