· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER STARK COUNTY | $120,000 |
| WHISPERING GRACE HORSES | $100,000 |
| COMMQUEST SERVICES INC | $30,000 |
| C A R E CENTER | $30,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $15,000 |
| THE AULTMAN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $7,000 |
| REFUGE OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| PROJECT REBUILD | $5,000 |
| STARK EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP | $5,000 |
| BEACON CHARITABLE PHARMACY INC | $5,000 |
| ARTS IN STARK | $5,000 |
| YMCA | $5,000 |
| FIRST TEE CANTON | $3,750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 15 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK6× · 2019–2025 · $166k · revenue +18%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +23%
- AIARTS IN STARK6× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $20k
- ROREFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +553%
- PVPYMATUNING VALLEY ATHLETIC BOOSTERSone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -43%
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.
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.
Fight hunger in our community by providing financial, logistic, strategic, and food support to our network of local emergency food pantries.
We strengthen stark county by driving business growth and leading its economic transformation.
Ending homelessness in stark county ohio.
The Mission of the Stark County Convention & Visitors' Bureau is to attract and engage visitors, serve and educate regional tourisim partners, and generate economic growth for the community through travel and tourism development.
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.
To promote economic self-sufficiency among low-income families and individuals of stark county.
Provide elderly services to allow persons to stay in their own homes
To promote the revitalization of neighborhoods in stark county by leading partnership-based, neighborhood-specific, revitalization efforts and developing programs that support community reinvestment.
Assist the homeless to rise out of poverty
United way is strengthening the upper ohio valley's resilience, advance health, youth opportunities, and financial security.
Our mission is to provide access to a coordinated system of health care and community resources for those that are underserved and impacted by community conditions.
Youth development and healthy living
How this is measured
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 65 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 United Way of Greater Stark County ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds COMMQUEST SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Whispering Grace Horses ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN STARK ↗
- Who funds Project Rebuild Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF MASSILLON INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Hammer & Nails Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PYMATUNING VALLEY ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds Beacon Charitable Pharmacy Inc ↗
- Who funds POLICE K-9 ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PERRY HIGH SCHOOL ADULT BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds Stark County Diaper Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Central Stark County ↗
- Who funds STARK EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion Delivered Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TOMTOD IDEAS INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sterling Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sterling Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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