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Lehner Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k66 grants · $283k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $500k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $415k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AKRON ZOOLOGICAL PARK | $150,000 |
| AKRON ART MUSEUM | $140,000 |
| SUMMA HEALTH | $125,000 |
| AKRON HISTORY CENTER | $40,000 |
| ROTARY CAMP FOR CHILDREN | $35,000 |
| STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS | $30,000 |
| ST MARY URBAN EDUCATION INITIATIVE | $25,000 |
| LOYOLA RETREAT HOUSE | $25,000 |
| STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS | $25,000 |
| THE VILLAGE OF ST EDWARD | $25,000 |
| TRULY REACHING YOU INC | $25,000 |
| AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| AKRON ZOOLOGICAL PARK | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| EMBRACING FUTURES INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $319k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% 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.
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.
100 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- AZAKRON ZOOLOGICAL PARK5× · 2020–2024 · $787k · revenue +108%
- SHSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $342k · revenue +23%
- AAAKRON ART MUSEUM4× · 2020–2024 · $335k · revenue +166%
Funded once
- SHSUMMA HEALTHone grant, 2021 · $250k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $40k
- ACAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +24%
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 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…
To promote business in the tri-county area
The akron development corporation was organized to support economic development initiatives in the city of akron, particularly through the former akron global business accelerator and to secure state of ohio funding for technology-based…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
Goodwill industries of akron, ohio, inc is a not-for-profit corporation that helps individuals prepare for, find, and retain employment. goodwill serves the five-county region of summit, portage, medina, ashland, and richland. goodwill…
To develop charitable gifts and resources dedicated to building healthier communities in southwest ohio.
To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.
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…
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
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 Peninsula Foundation Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
87 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. 87 of the 158 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 ZOOLOGICAL PARK ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Summa Health ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds Loyola Retreat House Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ART RESOURCES TRANSFORMATIONS ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds GREAT TRAIL COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED DISABILITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Truly Reaching You Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds Akron History Center ↗
- Who funds CASA BOARD VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
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: Akron Community Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · The Welty Family Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · Gar Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · Synthomer Foundation Inc · United Way of Summit and Medina
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 Lehner Family Foundation 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.
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