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Robert O and Annamae Orr Family Foundation at a glance

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Robert O and Annamae Orr Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$564k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$791kHealth$524kFood & Nutrition$517kArts & Culture$507kYouth Development$119kHousing & Shelter$119kEnvironment$111kEducation$42kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $305k
$10,050
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$95,000
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank$60,000
Akron Art Museum$50,000
Ronald McDonald House of Akron$50,000
Grace House$50,000
Embracing Futures$42,000
Good Samaritan Hunger Center$35,000
OPEN M$20,000
Keep Akron Beautiful$20,000
Littlest Heroes$15,000
Habitat for Humanity of Summit County$15,000
Ben Curtis Family Foundation$12,500
Caring for Kids$10,050
Char-ity Inc$10,000
Humane Society Summit County$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Empower Sports: $10k → 17%Family and Community Services: $10k → 12%Caring for Kids: $10k → 13%OPEN M: $20k → 13%OPEN M: $20k → 13%OPEN M: $20k → 13%OPEN M: $10k → 13%OPEN M: $10k → 13%OPEN M: $10k → 13%South Street Ministries: $5k → 13%Battered Women's Shelter: $6k → 13%Battered Women's Shelter: $5k → 13%Battered Women's Shelter: $5k → 13%Battered Women's Shelter: $5k → 13%Battered Women's Shelter: $2k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 36 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
14

Total granted

$3.6M
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+13%

Still filing today

61%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AR
    AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK
    6× · 2019–2024 · $345k · revenue +18%
  • RO
    RMH OF AKRONINC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $305k · revenue +37%
  • EF
    EMBRACING FUTURES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $214k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • AP
    Akron Public Schools
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • HO
    HEART OF REVERE
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
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
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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2
Emerge Ministries Inc

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…

Human Services
3
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
4
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

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…

—
5
Akron Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
6
Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…

Human Services
7
Akron Community Development Association Inc

Provide services throughout the ohio health services in the following areas education, tutoring, job, mental health and addiction services. organization has national accreditation to provide mental health services.

Community Improvement
8
Health Resource Center of Cincinnati Inc

The health resource center of cincinnati, inc. is a nurse managed clinic that provides affordable health care for low-income, indigent, and homeless adults and transitional youth with serious and chronic mental, emotional, behavioral,…

Health
9
Ohio Center for Hope

To promote mental health research in medical developments

Health
10
Grace House Akron Inc

Grace house akron provides a caring environment for hospice enrolled individuals who are without a caregiver, an able caregiver or cannot afford a private caregiver.

Human Services
11
Lorain County Safe Harbor Corp

The organization provides a comprehensive range of family focused services for lorain county, ohio victims of domestic violence. we endeavor to be a part of collaborative community

Human Services
12
The Open Shelter Inc

The open shelter provides, directly or by referral emergency shelter and assistance for homeless and marginally housed persons in central ohio, especially the most vulnerable among them; and to provide directly or by referral, coordinated,…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Support Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Akron Art Museum. 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

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 58 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $884,215 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRMH OF AKRONINC: $305,000 · OtherRMH OF AKRONINCGrace House: $170,000 · OtherGrace HouseSalvation Army: $150,000 · OtherSalvation ArmyAkron Civic Theater: $105,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC: $94,000 · OtherAKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $80,000 · Other+28 more: $578,975 · Other+28 moreEMBRACING FUTURES INC: $213,758 · HealthEMBRACING FU…THE LITTLEST HEROES INC: $105,000 · HealthTHE LITTLEST…THE OAK CLINIC: $58,448 · HealthTHE OAK CLIN…VICTORY GALLOP INC: $22,500 · HealthBeacon Charitable Pharmacy Inc: $20,000 · Health+2 more: $9,500 · HealthAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $345,000 · Food & NutritionAKRON-CANTON…GOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTER: $60,000 · Food & NutritionGOOD SAMARIT…AKRON ART MUSEUM: $137,572 · Arts & CultureSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $87,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY: $90,000 · Human ServicesHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $22,500 · Human ServicesCARING FOR KIDS INC: $10,050 · Human ServicesEMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesKEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL: $111,000 · EnvironmentGREATER CLEVELAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentIDEASTREAM: $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentINTERNATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY INC: $11,289 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST GLANCE STUDENT CENTER INC: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,367,190Health$429,206Food & Nutrition$405,000Arts & Culture$229,572Human Services$147,550Environment$111,000Youth Development$60,289

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $345,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRMH OF AKRONINC: $305,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetEMBRACING FUTURES INC: $213,758 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetAKRON ART MUSEUM: $137,572 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetKEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL: $111,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetTHE LITTLEST HEROES INC: $105,000 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC: $94,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY: $90,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $87,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $80,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTER: $60,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE OAK CLINIC: $58,448 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI: $58,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $36,875 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVICTORY GALLOP INC: $22,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBeacon Charitable Pharmacy Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY INC: $11,289 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCARING FOR KIDS INC: $10,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRIEFCARE PLACE INC: $7,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION INC DBA AKRON CIVIC THEATRE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChildrens Concert Society: $5,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF AKRON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFIRST GLANCE STUDENT CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSHELTER CARE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIn Education Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRAYL CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds RMH OF AKRONINC ↗
  • Who funds EMBRACING FUTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL ↗
  • Who funds THE LITTLEST HEROES INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE OAK CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds BEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
  • Who funds VICTORY GALLOP INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Beacon Charitable Pharmacy Inc ↗
  • Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY INC ↗
  • Who funds CARING FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION ↗

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…Sisler McFawn Foundat…L R Moffitt & L W Mof…Charles E and Mabel M…Lehner Family Foundat…Gar FoundationNorthern Ohio Golf Ch…The Rc Musson and Kat…Glenn R & Alice V Bog…Mary S & David C Corb…Lloyd L & Louise K Sm…
Akron Community FoundationOH56.9× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · Lehner Family Foundation · Gar Foundation · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · The Rc Musson and Katharine Musson Charitable Foundation · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith 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 Robert O and Annamae Orr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert O and Annamae Orr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Robert O and Annamae Orr Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 58 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-PF 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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