· Private foundation
Synthomer Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k248 grants · $710k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $605k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UTD WAY OF GTR CLEVELAND | $40,000 |
| AKRON URBAN LEAGUE | $35,000 |
| UNIV OF AKRON RESEARCH FDN | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MED | $28,000 |
| AMER INST OF CHEMICAL ENGINE | $24,000 |
| AMER INST OF CHEMICAL ENGINE | $24,000 |
| THE UNIV OF AKRON | $20,000 |
| CUYAHOGA COMM COLLEGE FDN | $20,000 |
| ACCESS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| CLEVELAND STATE UNIV FDN | $17,500 |
| FRIENDS OF UNIV OF WATERLOO | $16,000 |
| STARK STATE COLLEGE FDN | $15,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OH | $15,000 |
| TEAM NEO FDN | $15,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +14% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
217 repeat relationships: 141 still active in FY2024, 76 since wound down; 86 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $340k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO4× · 2021–2024 · $68k · revenue +39%
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $56k · revenue +8%
- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK3× · 2021–2023 · $55k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- AIAMERICAN INST OF CHEMICAL ENone grant, 2022 · $48k
- UOUNIV OF AKRON RES FDNone grant, 2023 · $30k
- AIAMER INST OF CHEMICAL ENGone grant, 2021 · $24k
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.
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How this is measured
194 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. 194 of the 552 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
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
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 AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds Team NEO Foundation ↗
- Who funds John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT GRAD AKRON ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF AKRON RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIMITLESS AMBITION 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: Akron Community Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · The Welty Family Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · Gar Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Firstenergy Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Synthomer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Synthomer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Nashua River Watershed Assoc Inc: 54% of income from government
- North Star Family Services Inc: 12% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Sisters of Saint Ann Inc: 2% of income from government
- Fitchburg Art Museum: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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