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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.

$15k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$270kHousing & Shelter$231kArts & Culture$186kCommunity Improvement$148kEducation$74kFood & Nutrition$41kEnvironment$10k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP$15,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EAST AKRON NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT: $15k → 13%NORTHEAST OHIO CENTER CHOREOGRAPHY: $25k → 13%AKRON METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTH: $44k → 13%LETS GROW AKRON: $31k → 13%AKRON METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTH: $38k → 13%LETS GROW AKRON: $10k → 13%AKRON METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTH: $22k → 13%KENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT: $9k → 13%AKRON METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTH: $13k → 13%DOWNTOWN AKRON PARTNERSHIP: $124k → 13%COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION: $117k → 13%COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%ARTSNOW: $10k → 13%SUMMIT METRO PARKS: $252k → 13%COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%SUMMIT METRO PARKS: $18k → 13%STUDENTS WITH A GOAL: $64k → 13%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP: $40k → 13%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15k → 13%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15k → 13%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15k → 13%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15k → 13%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15k → 13%STUDENTS WITH A GOAL: $10k → 13%KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL: $10k → 13%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$768k · 6 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +109% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$768k
$193k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+109%
+12%

Still filing today

67%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION INC DBA AKRON CIVIC THEATRE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $151k · revenue +25%
  • ND
    NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +217%
  • LG
    LETS GROW AKRON INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $41k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • DA
    DOWNTOWN AKRON PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2019 · $124k · revenue -9%
  • NO
    NORTHEAST OHIO CENTER FOR CHOREOGRAPHY
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +17%
  • CO
    CITY OF GREEN DIVISION OF FIRE
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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
Akron Revitalization Committee Inc
Community Improvement
2
Summit Artspace

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Akron Soul Train

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Akron Black Artist Guild

Exclusively for charitable, religious, educational

Arts & Culture
5
Akron Parks Collaborative

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…

Recreation & Sports
6
Center for Applied Theater and Active Culture

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Akron Aids Collaborative

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…

Human Services
8
Metro West Community Development Organization

The mission of metro west community development organization is to revitalize our neighborhoods, celebrate our history, and strengthen collaboration, diversity, and redevelopment.

Community Improvement
9
Westown Community Development Corp

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…

Community Improvement
10
Bayarts

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.

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11
Akron Art Museum

To enrich lives through modern and contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
12
Near West Theatre Inc

Near west theatre creates life-changing theatre arts experiences that empower our community.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kenmore Neighborhood Alliance; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUMMIT METRO PARKS: $270,000 · OtherSUMMIT METRO PARKSAKRON METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITY COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $116,282 · OtherAKRON METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITY COMMUNITY ACTION…LETS GROW AKRON INC: $41,000 · OtherLETS GROW AKRON INC+2 more: $23,500 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION INC DBA AKRON CIVIC THEATRE: $151,132 · Community ImprovementTHE COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION IN…DOWNTOWN AKRON PARTNERSHIP: $124,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN AKRON PARTNERSHIPNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $115,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD …STUDENTS WITH A GOAL: $74,090 · EducationNORTHEAST OHIO CENTER FOR CHOREOGRAPHY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureARTSNOW: $10,000 · Arts & CultureKEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL: $10,000 · Environment
Other$450,782Community Improvement$275,132Housing & Shelter$115,000Education$74,090Arts & Culture$35,000Environment$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION INC DBA AKRON CIVIC THEATRE: $151,132 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN AKRON PARTNERSHIP: $124,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $115,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetSTUDENTS WITH A GOAL: $74,090 over 2y, 30% of budgetLETS GROW AKRON INC: $41,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO CENTER FOR CHOREOGRAPHY: $25,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetKEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetARTSNOW: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE: $9,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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.

Akron Community Found…The Welty Family Foun…Gar FoundationJohn S and James L Kn…The Margaret Clark Mo…Amazonsmile Foundation
Akron Community FoundationOH23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Canalway Coalition funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 12 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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