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Shearers Snacks Charity Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MASSILLON INC | $4,309 |
| BOYS CLUB OF DETROIT LAKES INCORPORATED CROVISIER PARK | $2,500 |
| PEGASUS FARMS | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 58% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 14 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 FY2022, 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
- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK5× · 2017–2021 · $180k · revenue +43%
- MMMASSILLON MUSEUM3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +78%
- BGBOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF MASSILLON INC6× · 2017–2022 · $46k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- HWHEALTHY WEIGHTone grant, 2017 · $38k
- MLMARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMISSION OF GREATER CANTON INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -32%
- TPTHE PACK SHACKone grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +13%
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 strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.
United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.
At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
Connect resources to important community needs. the organization focuses on the most important human service needs facing the community and uses a variety of methods to communicate with community members in order to priortize the issues…
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
To improve lives by sharing community resources
The columbus area united way focuses resources to improve individual lives and help build a stronger community by providing leadership, creating coalitions, and helping to develop resources to change community conditions.
End hunger together.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Greater Cincinnati Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Life Is Good No Matter What. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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. 39 of the 62 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 PEGASUS FARM ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds MASSILLON MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF MASSILLON INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMISSION OF GREATER CANTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE PACK SHACK ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Stark County ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION & IMPROVEME ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds Life Is Good No Matter What ↗
- Who funds AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON WEST BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIO Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds Safe Journey ↗
- Who funds Erie United Methodist Alliance ↗
- Who funds CHAIR-ITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF OTTER TAIL & WADENA COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP OF THE PERHAM AREA ↗
- Who funds FAIRLESS FOOD CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLIES EMBRACE ↗
- Who funds VANTAGE AGING ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds Perham Rotary Foundation ↗
- Who funds EN-RICH-MENT ↗
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: Stark Community Foundation · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · The Belden Brick Charitable Trust · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · West Central Initiative · Firstenergy 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 Shearers Snacks Charity Foundation 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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