Ohio · Private foundation
Sterling Family Foundation
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.
- $410k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $120,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 29
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Sterling Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $410k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $284k | 34% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $237k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $150k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $195k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $169k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Greater Stark County | $360,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank | $165,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Commquest Services Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Whispering Grace Horses | $100,000 | 1 | 6% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Arts in Stark | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Project Rebuild Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Care Center | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Church of the Lakes | $18,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($339k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sterling Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Stark Community Foundation · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · United Way of Greater Stark County · Health Foundation of Greater Massillon · The Belden Brick Charitable Trust · Synchrony Foundation · William & Minnette Goldsmith Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · North Canton Medical Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sterling Family Foundation
- How much does Sterling Family Foundation give?
- Sterling Family Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $409,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 29 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Sterling Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (22%), Human Services (18%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are Sterling Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: United Way of Greater Stark County ($360k), Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank ($166k), Commquest Services Inc ($120k).
- Does Sterling Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sterling Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sterling Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stark Community Foundation, Hoover Foundation Income Account, Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton.
- Where is Sterling Family Foundation based?
- Sterling Family Foundation is based in OH.
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