· Private foundation
Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of NORTHERN OHIO GOLF CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $148k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $445k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $460k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCK AND ROLL HOF AND MUSEUM | $200,000 |
| AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FDN | $100,000 |
| PGA TOUR CHARITIES | $60,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER AKRON | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM | $50,000 |
| MORTORSPORTS CHARITIES | $45,000 |
| PITCCH IN FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| THE TURN | $25,000 |
| CLEVELAND GUARDIANS CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| EMPOWER SPORTS | $20,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC AKRON GENERAL | $20,000 |
| LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| A KID AGAIN | $20,000 |
| THE JOHN DALY AND MJ ED HEART FDN | $15,000 |
| 100 WOMEN STRONG | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $441k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
76 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510k 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
- ACAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2025 · $420k · revenue +46%
- TRTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC2× · 2023–2024 · $400k · revenue +19%
- GAGREATER AKRON FORE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC FORMERLY THE FIRST TEE OF AKRON3× · 2017–2019 · $192k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- PFPRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAMEone grant, 2024 · $40k
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $38k · revenue +42%
- WRWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCYone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +10%
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 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…
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 mental health research in medical developments
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
To help people discover a lifestyle of meaning joy and fulfillment through treatment and training. emerge ministries inc. is devoted to serving our clients. this service encompasses a biblically based mental health center with…
Ending homelessness in stark county ohio.
The organization provides homeless prevention services, emergency shelter and basic needs, housing solutions and family and early childhood services to families in a housing crisis
At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
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.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Wentz Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
135 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. 135 of the 230 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA ↗
- Who funds GREATER AKRON FORE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC FORMERLY THE FIRST TEE OF AKRON ↗
- Who funds Fore Stark County Youth Development Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds MOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PITCCH IN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Truly Reaching You Inc ↗
- Who funds RMH OF AKRONINC ↗
- Who funds INTERVAL BROTHERHOOD HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds BEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A KID AGAIN INC ↗
- Who funds CLEARVIEW LEGACY FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION PRESERVATION & RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUMILITY OF MARY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds TIRETOWN GOLF CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
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 · United Way of Summit and Medina · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Gpd Group Employees Foundation Inc · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Gar Foundation · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial
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 Northern Ohio Golf Charities 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.
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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