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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 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 · 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 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| ATHENS COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LANCASTER FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| ALLIANCE COMMUNITY PANTRY INC | $2,000 |
| WEST OHIO FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| NORWALK AREA FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $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 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.
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank and the most unlike its peers is Brunswick Food Pantry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 21 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 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 ALLIANCE COMMUNITY PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS COUNTY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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-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
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 Nopec 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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