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Lemmon Foundation Inc

The foundation operates exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the function of, and to carry out the purpose of stark community foundation.

$816k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
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 FY20232024.

Housing & Shelter$392kHealth$370kPhilanthropy$200kArts & Culture$136kFood & Nutrition$70kHuman Services$50kEmployment$42kEducation$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $745k
$70,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF GREATER STARK COUNTY$200,000
CANTON FOR ALL PEOPLE INC$175,000
COMMQUEST SERVICES INC$100,000
COLEMAN HEALTH SERVICES$100,000
AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK$70,000
FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$50,000
ICAN INC$50,000
CAREER APPRENTICESHIP AND MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC$42,000
CROSSROADS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$10,000
CITY OF NORTH CANTON$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY23–24, $592k) 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%FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $50k → 12%CANTON FOR ALL PEOPLE INC: $175k → 13%CANTON FOR ALL PEOPLE INC: $167k → 13%COMMQUEST SERVICES INC: $100k → 13%COMMQUEST SERVICES INC: $100k → 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
Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce

Advancement of the economic, industrial, professional, cultural and civic welfare of stark county and its surrounding region and the promotion and preservation of the competitive free enterprise system.

2
The Goodwill Industries of Akron Ohio Inc

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…

3
United Way of Cleveland County Inc

The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.

Philanthropy
4
Community Support Services Inc

Serves as a safety net for those summit county residents who are most in need of behavioral health services as a result of severe and persistent mental illness the agency proveides comprehensive, high quality, cost-effective treatment,…

Health
5
Community Action Board

To partner with the community to eliminate poverty and create social change through advocacy and essential services.

Employment
6
Catholic Charities Corporation

Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.

Human Services
7
Cain Cincy

Tranforms lives inspiring hope by providing nutritious food,crisis assistance,resources and compassion that respects human dignity building a more vibrant community. feeding bodies and souls through its choice food pantry,weekly community…

Religion
8
Integrated Community Solutions Inc

Bringing people together with quality services that promote self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
9
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
10
Fayette County Community Action Agency Inc

To provide programs that will enable low income individuals to attain the necessary skills, knowledge, and motivation needed to become self-sufficient.

Human Services
11
Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

Economic & community development - restore and maintain healthy economic and social conditions in the city of canton and stark county and to support infrastructure expansion vital to economic growth.

12
Community Reach Center Inc

Community reach center's mission is to enhance the health of our community.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commquest Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beacon Charitable Pharmacy 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CANTON FOR ALL PEOPLE INC — $341,625 · Human ServicesCANTON FOR ALL PEOPLE INCCOMMQUEST SERVICES INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesCOMMQUEST SERVICES INCFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INCUnited Way of Greater Stark County — $200,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Gre…COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC — $100,000 · HealthCOLEMAN PROFES…Beacon Charitable Pharmacy Inc — $50,000 · HealthBeacon Charita…CLEVELAND CLINIC MERCY HOSPITAL — $20,000 · HealthCLEVELAND CLIN…ARTS IN STARK — $135,800 · Arts & CultureARTS IN STA…ICAN INC — $50,000 · OtherLOUISVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $25,000 · OtherCITY OF NORTH CANTON — $10,000 · OtherCROSSROADS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK — $70,000 · Food & NutritionCAREER APPRENTICESHIP & MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC — $42,000 · Education
Human Services$591,625Philanthropy$200,000Health$170,000Arts & Culture$135,800Other$95,000Food & Nutrition$70,000Education$42,000

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 budgetCANTON FOR ALL PEOPLE INC — $341,625 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Stark County — $200,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMQUEST SERVICES INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetARTS IN STARK — $135,800 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK — $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetICAN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBeacon Charitable Pharmacy Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCAREER APPRENTICESHIP & MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC — $42,000 over 1y, 8.8% 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.

Stark Community FoundationOH26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stark Community Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Timken Foundation of Canton · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · The Fitzpatrick Foundation Inc · Sterling Family Foundation · Health Foundation of Greater Massillon · United Way of Greater Stark County · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Lemmon Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lemmon Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lemmon Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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