· Public charity
Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition
OHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION shall stimulate public interest and support for the protection, preservation, development, and enhancement of the historical, natural, and recreational resources along the route of the ohio & erie canal.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +109% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TCTHE COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION INC DBA AKRON CIVIC THEATRE3× · 2019–2021 · $151k · revenue +25%
- NDNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION6× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +217%
- LGLETS GROW AKRON INC2× · 2019–2020 · $41k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- DADOWNTOWN AKRON PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2019 · $124k · revenue -9%
- NONORTHEAST OHIO CENTER FOR CHOREOGRAPHYone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +17%
- COCITY OF GREEN DIVISION OF FIREone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Summit artspace connects artists and artist-serving organizations to the community and to the resources they need to thrive professionally, creatively, and financially. its core values of creativity, collaboration, and community guide the…
Akron soul train (ast) is a multidisciplinary residency program that provides 12-15 artists each year with paid residencies. our mission is to offer ohio-based visual, performing, and literary artists the space, time, and financial…
Exclusively for charitable, religious, educational
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 establish a forum for community engagement and educational outreach through collaboration with emerging and established artists and the creation, production and presentation of a diverse array of theatre, music, dance, and exhibitions…
The organization's primary purpose is to broaden the network of caring organizations in the community, to influence social norms that contribute to the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS and to increase advocacy for social services for…
The mission of metro west community development organization is to revitalize our neighborhoods, celebrate our history, and strengthen collaboration, diversity, and redevelopment.
Provide services to its residents, business owners and stakeholders that enhance and maintain the westown neighborhoods and businesses. wcdc's service area known as westown is a vibrant, historic and culturally diverse city neighborhood…
The mission of bayarts is to provide a welcoming lakeside environment to stimulate, encourage and support professional and aspiring artists of all ages through collaboration, education and exhibition.
Near west theatre creates life-changing theatre arts experiences that empower our community.
To enrich lives through modern and contemporary art.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kenmore Neighborhood Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Students With a Goal. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION INC DBA AKRON CIVIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN AKRON PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS WITH A GOAL ↗
- Who funds LETS GROW AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO CENTER FOR CHOREOGRAPHY ↗
- Who funds KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds ARTSNOW ↗
- Who funds KENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE ↗
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 · The Welty Family Foundation · Gar Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · The Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation · 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 Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition 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.