· Private foundation
Samuel Reese Willis Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES | $35,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA CO | $25,000 |
| AKRON CANTON REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| AKRON URBAN LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| AKRON FOSSILS & SCIENCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| SHELTER CARE INC | $10,000 |
| HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $5,000 |
| CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS | $5,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $5,000 |
| EMPOWERING EPILEPSY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +25% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK7× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +41%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2022 · $75k · revenue +0%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- PCPATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -5%
- PEPROJECT ED BEAR INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -78%
- TJTRI-COUNTY JOBS FOR OHIOone grant, 2021 · $8k
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…
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…
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 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…
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.
We are a christian-based organization serving as an intersectional hub, dedicated to unifying the colors, cultures, and congregations to see greater akron thrive. guided by our faith, we actively seek to influence positive change by…
The mission of akron summit community action, inc. is to reduce poverty and promote self-sufficiency. the broad objectives of the agency are: to provide quality services to low-income individuals and families; to advocate for a…
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.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
Emmanuel's mission is to provide instruction in god's word and conventional instruction that meets or exceeds state standards for all who desire a biblical foundation. to serve children who historically have been defined as at-risk of not…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Akron Community Service Center & Urban League Inc and 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.
20 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. 20 of the 45 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 AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds SHELTER CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Empowering Epilepsy ↗
- Who funds Akron Fossils and Science Center ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds LETS GROW AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ED BEAR INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AKRON YOUTH MENTORSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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: The Welty Family Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Akron Community Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Gar Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr · Berlin Family Foundation Inc · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess 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 Samuel Reese Willis 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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