· Private foundation
The Babcox Family Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $404k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACE HOUSE | $40,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY | $40,000 |
| EMBRACING FUTURES | $40,000 |
| THE WELL | $40,000 |
| BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER | $34,000 |
| STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS | $30,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SUMMIT COUNTY | $30,000 |
| VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $25,000 |
| ACCESS INC | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO | $20,000 |
| BRIGHT STAR BOOKS | $20,000 |
| DIRECTION HOME | $15,000 |
| OPEN M | $15,000 |
| NAMI SUMMIT COUNTY | $10,000 |
| VANTAGE AGING | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $794k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SHSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $367k · revenue +38%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +46%
- EFEMBRACING FUTURES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- UDUNITED DISABILITY SERVICES INCone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -4%
- FOFRIENDS OF METRO PARKSone grant, 2022 · $250 · revenue -66%
- SSST SEBASTIAN PARISHone grant, 2024 · $150
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.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.
To engage the akron, ohio community around the creation and sustainability of vibrant public spaces within the city of akron. we foster and support neighborhood park advocates by enabling them to meet their goals, partner with the city and…
Provide education, support and advocacy to those affected by mental illness.
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…
To improve the quality of life for the citizens of summit county, particularly african americans, by advocating and facilitating programs that are economically and educationally transformational, impacting their lives and the lives of…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To help people discover a lifestyle of meaning joy and fulfillment through treatment and training. emerge ministries inc. is devoted to serving our clients. this service encompasses a biblically based mental health center with…
To advocate for an equitable ohio for people with disabilities.
To promote the highest quality of life, area agency on aging 3 will provide access to a network of services, education, and advocacy as the region's aging and disability resource expert.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Summit County Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Ataxia Foundation Incorporated. 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 48 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 33 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
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 AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT STAR BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI Summit County ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds VANTAGE AGING ↗
- Who funds National Ataxia Foundation Incorporated ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED DISABILITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF METRO PARKS ↗
- Who funds THE AKRON GARDEN CLUB ↗
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: Akron Community Foundation · Gar Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Lehner Family Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · United Way of Summit and Medina · The Rc Musson and Katharine Musson Charitable Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt 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 The Babcox Family Foundation Inc 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.
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.