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Ohio & Erie Canal Association

To Preserve and support the Historic Ohio & Erie Canal

$211k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.1MRecreation & Sports$619kEnvironment$604kCommunity Improvement$272kYouth Development$46kPublic Benefit$29k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $206,457, the rows itemized in this filing. The $210,708 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,251 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
$11,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$545k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ohio & Erie Canal Coalition$56,500
Canalway Partners$38,000
Historic Warehouse District$30,000
Akron History Center$26,250
City of New Franklin$11,200
Zoar community Assn$10,000
City of Cleveland$10,000
Tuscarawus County Parks$10,000
Lakeview Cemetary Fdn$7,500
Stark Parks$7,007
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%City of Dover: $31k → 12%Concervancy CVNP: $50k → 13%Ohio History Connection: $25k → 15%Canalway Partners: $110k → 17%Concervancy CVNP: $50k → 13%City of Massilon: $50k → 13%Canalway Partners: $61k → 17%Concervancy CVNP: $50k → 13%Canalway Partners: $51k → 17%City of New Philadelphia: $40k → 12%Peninsula Foundation: $25k → 13%Canalway Partners: $50k → 17%Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RR: $25k → 13%Land Studio: $45k → 17%Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RR: $22k → 13%Massillon Area Greenways: $23k → 13%Historic Gateway: $50k → 17%Canalway Partners: $38k → 17%NEO Sewer District: $40k → 17%Canalway Partners: $38k → 17%Ohio & Erie Canal Coalition: $150k → 13%Historic Warehouse District: $30k → 17%Development Finance Authority: $75k → 13%Canalway Partners: $38k → 17%Ohio & Erie Canal Coalition: $75k → 13%City of Akron: $75k → 13%Canalway Partners: $32k → 17%Ohio & Erie Canal Coalition: $65k → 13%Ohio & Erie Canal Coalition: $60k → 13%Land Studio: $23k → 17%Ohio & Erie Canal Coalition: $58k → 13%Ohio & Erie Canal Coalition: $57k → 13%Metro Park of Summit: $50k → 13%Ohio & Erie Canal Coalition: $54k → 13%Summit Co Metro Park: $42k → 13%Cleveland Metroparks: $30k → 17%Akron History Center: $26k → 13%Summit Co Metro Park: $29k → 13%Ohio & Erie Canal Coalition: $25k → 13%Summit Co Historic Society: $35k → 13%Summit Co Historical Society: $25k → 13%Boys and Girls Club: $46k → 17%Western Reserve Historical Society: $60k → 17%Western Reserve Historical Society: $50k → 17%Western Reserve Historical Society: $50k → 17%Western Reserve Historical Society: $40k → 17%University Circle: $35k → 17%Lakeview Cemetary: $30k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 19 repeat orgs$439k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
11

Total granted

$2.2M
$384k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+7%

Still filing today

74%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OE
    OHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $543k · revenue +433%
  • NC
    North Cuyahoga Valley Corridor Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $417k · revenue +91%
  • WR
    WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2017–2023 · $210k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • DF
    DEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +206%
  • CO
    CITY OF AKRON
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • CO
    CITY OF MASSILLON
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

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.

1
Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Inc

See schedule oper the bylaws of the delaware & lehigh national heritage corridor(which were updated by the merged board of the national canal musuem and the d&l), our mission is to work with government entities, non-profit organizations…

Arts & Culture
2
Western Reserve Land Conservancy

Land conservation and restoration for public benefit

Environment
3
Dunham Tavern Museum & Gardens

To preserve, develop, and share historic dunham tavern and its campus as an educational and cultural resource. we aspire for dunham tavern as an institution to provide an urban green space in midtown cleveland, and to return the tavern to…

Arts & Culture
4
Middleburg Heights Historical Society

Non profit historical society

Arts & Culture
5
Cascade Locks Park Association

Cascade locks park association is a 501 (c)(3) organization founded in 1989. our mission is to preserve, protect, and promote the industrial and cultural heritage of the mustill family store & home and the cascade locks park along locks…

Recreation & Sports
6
The Cleveland Carousel

The carousel society serves to restore the 1910 grand euclid beach carousel to be a functional, self-sustaining regional historic and cultural landmark for enjoyment and programmatic community development through its placement in the…

Arts & Culture
7
Heritage Conservancy Inc

We are a community based organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of significant open spaces, natural resources, and our historic heritage.

Arts & Culture
8
Committee for Our Cleveland Metroparks

Local ballot issue political action committee located in the state of Ohio

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9
Granville Ohio Historical Society

The Granville Historical Society acquires, preserves, and shares Granvilles past with residents and visitors to inspire curiosity about, instill knowledge of, and foster a commitment to our history.

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10
Canfield Heritage Foundation

Museum

Arts & Culture
11
River Fields Inc

River fields protects, preserves, and enhances the natural and cultural resources, including agricultural and scenic resources, on both sides of the ohio river between westport and west point, kentucky, for the benefit of the public.we…

Environment
12
Clark County Historical Society

The mission of the clark county historical society is to collect, preerve, and interpret resources which provide understanding and appreciation of clark county's heritage, and to relate to the community's past to the present and its future.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 34 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION: $543,212 · Arts & CultureOHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITIONNorth Cuyahoga Valley Corridor Inc: $417,316 · Arts & CultureNorth Cuyahoga Valley Corridor IncWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $210,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETYSUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO: $85,000 · Arts & CultureSUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIOCUYAHOGA VALLEY PRESERVATION AND SCENIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION: $71,780 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $151,609 · Arts & Culture+5 moreSUMMIT METRO PARKS: $136,098 · OtherSUMMIT METRO PARKSHISTORIC GATEWAY NEIGHBORHOOD CORPORATION: $125,000 · OtherHISTORIC GATEWAY NEIGHBORHOOD COR…LAND STUDIO INC: $78,000 · OtherLAND STUDIO INCCITY OF AKRON: $75,000 · OtherCITY OF AKRONCity of New Philadelphia: $61,000 · OtherCity of New PhiladelphiaCity of Dover: $57,424 · OtherCity of DoverCITY OF MASSILLON: $50,000 · OtherCITY OF MASSILLONCity of Canal Fulton: $44,408 · OtherCity of Canal FultonCLEVELAND METROPOLITAN PARK DISTRICT: $43,700 · OtherCLEVELAND METROPOLITAN PARK DISTR…NORTHEAST OHIO REGIONAL SEWER DISTRICT (NEORSD): $40,000 · Other+6 more: $70,270 · Other+6 moreCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $170,085 · EnvironmentWEST CREEK CONSERVANCY: $22,000 · Environment+1 more: $5,633 · EnvironmentDEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE INC: $75,000 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTREMONT WEST DEVELOPMENT CORP: $30,000 · Community ImprovementZOAR COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $16,200 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $46,230 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$1,478,917Other$780,900Environment$197,718Community Improvement$171,200Youth Development$46,230

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION: $543,212 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetNorth Cuyahoga Valley Corridor Inc: $417,316 over 8y, 23% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $210,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $170,085 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHISTORIC GATEWAY NEIGHBORHOOD CORPORATION: $125,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO: $85,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetLAND STUDIO INC: $78,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetDEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE INC: $75,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetCUYAHOGA VALLEY PRESERVATION AND SCENIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION: $71,780 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $46,230 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHISTORIC WAREHOUSE DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF CLEVELAND: $37,500 over 2y, 37% of budgetTREMONT WEST DEVELOPMENT CORP: $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAkron History Center: $26,250 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPENINSULA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWEST CREEK CONSERVANCY: $22,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetZOAR COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $16,200 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCROWN POINT ECOLOGY CENTER: $5,633 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…Akron Community Found…The Cleveland Clinic …The George Gund Found…The Kelvin & Eleanor …Lehner Family Foundat…The Welty Family Foun…Ohio Humanities Counc…The Patricia & J Harv…Mg O'Neil FoundationElizabeth Ring Mather…Charles E and Mabel M…
The Cleveland FoundationOH23.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The George Gund Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Ohio Humanities Council · The Patricia & J Harvey Graves Family Foundation · Mg O'Neil Foundation · Elizabeth Ring Mather William Gwinn Mather Fund · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ohio & Erie Canal Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ohio & Erie Canal Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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