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Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn at a glance

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Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
124
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MEducation$885kHealth$768kYouth Development$322kCommunity Improvement$298kPhilanthropy$257kHousing & Shelter$250kOther$0
02FY2025 · 124 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k85 grants · $414k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $639k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$6,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES$65,000
LEADERSHIP AKRON$40,000
AKRONCANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK$35,000
FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$32,000
NEOMED$30,000
ACCESS$28,000
UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT COUNTY$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION$25,000
STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS$25,000
MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY$23,000
OPEN M$22,000
MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION$20,000
AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM$20,000
HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOUCE CENTER$20,000
HIRAM COLLEGE$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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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $890k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 14%LEGACY III INC: $7k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $38k → 12%FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $30k → 12%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $20k → 13%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $20k → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $11k → 13%JIN HUO COMMUNITY INC: $10k → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $10k → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $10k → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $10k → 13%VANTAGE AGING: $8k → 13%VANTAGE AGING: $8k → 13%HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOUCE CENTER: $20k → 13%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $17k → 13%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $12k → 13%AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER URBAN LEA: $15k → 13%BUILDING FOR TOMORROW: $15k → 13%AKRON COMM SERV CTR & URBAN LEAGUE: $15k → 13%AKRON URBAN LEAGUE: $15k → 13%BUILDING FOR TOMORROW: $15k → 13%AKRON COMM SERV CTR & URBAN LEAGUE: $15k → 13%BUILDING FOR TOMORROW: $15k → 13%BUILDING FOR TOMORROW: $14k → 13%BUILDING FOR TOMORROW: $14k → 13%BUILDING FOR TOMORROW: $14k → 13%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONOF AKR: $15k → 13%OPEN M: $25k → 13%OPEN M: $22k → 13%OPEN M: $20k → 13%OPEN M: $20k → 13%OPEN M: $20k → 13%OPEN M: $20k → 13%SOUTH STREET MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 13%VANTAGE AGING: $8k → 13%VANTAGE AGING: $8k → 13%VANTAGE AGING: $8k → 13%VANTAGE AGING: $8k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY: $9k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY: $9k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY: $9k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY: $9k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY: $9k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY: $8k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MI
NY
OR
SD
OH
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
DC
AL
GA
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.
$6.0M · 164 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

164 repeat relationships: 114 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

164
40

Total granted

$6.0M
$278k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

68%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TO
    THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $390k · revenue +31%
  • LA
    LEADERSHIP AKRON
    6× · 2020–2025 · $188k · revenue +35%
  • AR
    AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of Glendale Cemetery
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • MC
    MEDINA COUNTY BATTERED WOMEN
    one grant, 2022 · $17k
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
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
2
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
3
Greater Akron Chamber

To promote business in the tri-county area

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4
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…

Philanthropy
5
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

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6
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

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

Human Services
7
Ohio District 5 Area Agency On Aging Inc

The ohio district 5 area agency on aging, inc. provides leadership, collaboration, coordination and services to older adults, people with disabilities, their caregivers and resource networks that support individual choice, independence and…

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8
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement
9
Akron History Center

The mission of the Akron History Center is to create an enduring long-lasting free museum-quality exhibit about Akrons history that inspires residents educates young people and welcomes visitors to our community.

Arts & Culture
10
Akron Development Corporation

The akron development corporation was organized to support economic development initiatives in the city of akron, particularly through the former akron global business accelerator and to secure state of ohio funding for technology-based…

Community Improvement
11
School Choice Ohio Inc

The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.

Education
12
Jewish Family Services

To help individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional stability.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Help Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ge Aerospace Foundation. 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

146 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. 146 of the 216 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
142/146
Grantees still filing
93/146
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEOMED: $150,000 · OtherFAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $122,000 · OtherAKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $120,000 · OtherAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $185,000 · OtherAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK+109 more: $2,336,100 · Other+109 moreTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $390,000 · EducationTHE OHIO FOUNDAT…LEADERSHIP AKRON: $187,500 · EducationLEADERSHIP AKRONTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $145,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY O…SUMMIT EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $60,000 · EducationSUMMIT EDUCATION…+8 more: $127,500 · Education+8 moreOPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY: $127,000 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITY PAR…HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $89,000 · Human ServicesHOPE AND HEALIN…BUILDING FOR TOMORROW: $85,500 · Human ServicesBUILDING FOR TO…FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $68,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & COMMUN…AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesAKRON COMMUNITY…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $56,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC: $51,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE …VANTAGE AGING: $45,000 · Human ServicesCHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $41,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC: $34,000 · Human ServicesVICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $33,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC: $31,500 · Human ServicesOHIO LIVING: $30,000 · Human Services+13 more: $136,000 · Human Services+13 moreSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $160,000 · Arts & CultureSTAN HYWET HAL…The Musical Arts Association: $115,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Ar…WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $90,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN RESERV…MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY: $67,000 · Arts & CultureMAGICAL THEATR…CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER: $47,500 · Arts & CultureCUYAHOGA VALLE…AKRON ART MUSEUM: $45,000 · Arts & CultureAKRON ART MUSE…Friends of Glendale Cemetery: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION: $34,000 · Arts & CultureBallet Theatre of Ohio Inc: $33,000 · Arts & CultureSUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO: $32,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $31,000 · Arts & CultureGreater Akron Musical Association Inc: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $85,500 · Arts & Culture+6 moreEMBRACING FUTURES INC: $57,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $45,000 · HealthINTERVAL BROTHERHOOD HOMES INC: $38,000 · HealthVICTORY GALLOP INC: $36,000 · HealthSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $35,000 · HealthCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC: $22,500 · HealthPORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $22,500 · HealthURBAN OUNCE OF PREVENTION BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $15,000 · HealthDR BOB'S HOME: $14,500 · HealthAUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER AKRON: $11,500 · Health+6 more: $43,500 · HealthUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $160,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $35,000 · PhilanthropyHATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION: $22,500 · PhilanthropyCANDID: $15,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY OHIO: $11,984 · Philanthropy+3 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $44,000 · Youth DevelopmentINTERNATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY INC: $41,500 · Youth DevelopmentIDEASTREAM: $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST GLANCE STUDENT CENTER INC: $9,500 · Youth DevelopmentAKRON YOUTH MENTORSHIP: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run of Greater Summit Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohio: $9,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,913,100Education$910,000Human Services$887,000Arts & Culture$805,000Health$341,000Philanthropy$259,484Youth Development$200,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $390,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetLEADERSHIP AKRON: $187,500 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $185,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $160,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $160,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY: $127,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $120,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $115,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $90,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $89,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBUILDING FOR TOMORROW: $85,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC: $72,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $68,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY: $67,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED DISABILITY SERVICES INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMIT EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $60,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetAKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetACCESS INC: $59,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetEMBRACING FUTURES INC: $57,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $56,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID SERVICES: $53,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC: $51,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $50,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER: $47,500 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetLAWRENCE SCHOOL: $47,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAKRON ZOOLOGICAL PARK: $46,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAKRON ART MUSEUM: $45,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVANTAGE AGING: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $44,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION INC: $43,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetGREENLEAF FAMILY CENTER: $43,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY: $42,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY INC: $41,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $41,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPEGASUS FARM: $39,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetINTERVAL BROTHERHOOD HOMES INC: $38,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $37,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORY GALLOP INC: $36,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetFriends of Glendale Cemetery: $35,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $35,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC: $34,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION: $34,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetVICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $33,000 over 6y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP AKRON ↗
  • Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA ↗
  • Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds AKRON CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING FOR TOMORROW ↗
  • Who funds THE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED DISABILITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT EDUCATION INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
  • Who funds EMBRACING FUTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
  • Who funds CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LAWRENCE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AKRON ZOOLOGICAL PARK ↗
  • Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
  • Who funds VANTAGE AGING ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
  • Who funds LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENLEAF FAMILY CENTER ↗

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…L R Moffitt & L W Mof…Charles E and Mabel M…Lloyd L & Louise K Sm…Mary S & David C Corb…Gar FoundationLehner Family Foundat…W Paul Mills & Thora …Northern Ohio Golf Ch…Glenn R & Alice V Bog…United Way of Summit …
Akron Community FoundationOH167.1× affinity95 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 · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Gar Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · United Way of Summit and Medina

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 Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Sheltercare: 18% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
54report 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 216 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home