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Stark Community Foundation
We partner with individuals, families, businesses and nonprofits to help them achieve their charitable goals.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 260 grants below total $14,634,762 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $16,549,468 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,914,706 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k67 grants · $486k
- $10k–50k128 grants · $2.6M
- $50k–250k54 grants · $6.1M
- $250k+11 grants · $5.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTSINSTARK | $1,076,993 |
| NEOMED FOUNDATION | $620,984 |
| BUCKEYE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $586,282 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER STARK COUNTY | $508,381 |
| HALL OF FAME RESORT & ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY | $500,000 |
| JOHN H AND EVELYN L ASHTON PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC | $430,000 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $410,500 |
| WALSH UNIVERSITY | $388,776 |
| STARK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD | $342,000 |
| STARK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $322,839 |
| STARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $285,944 |
| STARK EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC | $238,920 |
| CANTON PALACE THEATRE ASSOCIATION | $228,804 |
| CANTON STUDENT LOAN FOUNDATION | $221,561 |
| THE WILDERNESS CENTER | $213,344 |
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 (FY17–24, $5.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
282 repeat relationships — 190 still active in FY2024, 92 since wound down; 50 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- BGBOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF MASSILLON INC8× · 2017–2024 · $6.1M · revenue +149% · 46% of their budget
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 436 BUCKEYE COUNCIL8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +13%
- SCSTARK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +57% · 42% of their budget
Funded once
- KMKEEP MEMORY ALIVEone grant, 2018 · $700k
- LCLAKE CENTER CHRISTIAN BLUE & GOLD BOOSTER CLUBone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -91% · 82% of their budget
- HFHEALTH FOUNDATION OF GREATER MASSILLONone grant, 2022 · $183k · revenue +17% · 43% of their budget
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…
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
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.
The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
The chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The hospital council of northwest ohio is a member-driven organization that represents and advocates on behalf of its member hospitals and health systems, and provides collaborative opportunities to enhance the health status of the…
As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and the most unlike its peers is Hope Whispers Community Organization Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
357 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. 357 of the 468 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ARTS IN STARK ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF MASSILLON INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN H & EVELYN L ASHTON PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Stark County ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 436 BUCKEYE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds STARK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STARK EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds The Canton Classic Car Museum ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STARK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds The Canton Student Loan Foundation ↗
- Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CANTON MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Central Stark County ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CANTON OHIO ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Mount Union ↗
- Who funds REFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CANTON FOR ALL PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds Canton Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds CANTON CHRISTIAN HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COMMQUEST SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MALONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ACCESS HEALTH STARK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
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: Hoover Foundation Income Account · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · United Way of Greater Stark County · Timken Foundation of Canton · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · The Belden Brick Charitable Trust · Health Foundation of Greater Massillon · Albert W & Edith V Flowers Charitable · Henry & Louise Timken Foundation · Christ 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 Stark Community 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
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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