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Nopec Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Nopec Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Cleveland Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Nopec Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $125k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k17 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $56,486 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $13,237 |
| MCKINLEY COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER | $12,022 |
| FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $5,055 |
| AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK INC | $5,000 |
| COUNTRY NEIGHBOR PROGRAM INC | $4,835 |
| GEAUGA HUNGER TASK FORCE | $4,191 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK MAHONING VALLEY | $4,000 |
| WEST OHIO FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| LANCASTER FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| ATHENS COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| ALLIANCE COMMUNITY PANTRY INC | $2,000 |
| RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NORWALK AREA FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
Provide emergency food for those in need.
To enable other community organizations to end hunger. we strive to maximize community resources by effectively obtaining and distributing food through a food collection and distribution system.
Fight hunger in our community by providing financial, logistic, strategic, and food support to our network of local emergency food pantries.
Distribution of food to those in need.
Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.
Hilliard Food Pantry Plus mission is to improve the well-being of our community by providing food and support
The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.
Mid-Ohio Foodbanks mission is to end hunger one nourishing meal at a time while co-creating communities where everyone thrives.
The Burlington Township Food Pantry offers food assistance to those in need, who live, work or worship in Burlington Township.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
The mission of the cooperstown food pantry is to address issues of poverty and hunger in otsego county.
To fight hunger and poverty by providing food, education, programs and resources to families in a dignified, personal and expeditious manner directly as a food pantry and as a food bank; without zip code restrictions.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds McKinley Community Outreach Center ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY NEIGHBOR PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GEAUGA COUNTY HUNGER TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ATHENS COUNTY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE COMMUNITY PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds West Ohio Food Bank ↗
- Who funds FEEDING MEDINA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN FAMILY MISSION ↗
- Who funds Brunswick Food Pantry Inc ↗
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-Canton Regional Foodbank · The Swagelok Foundation · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nopec Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nopec Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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