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The Barberton Community Foundation
The mission of THE BARBERTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is to strengthen the barberton community for current and future generations by providing leadership, fostering collaboration, and creating a legacy of giving to do good.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $812k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $17,711
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $271,220
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $115M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Barberton Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k 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 | 23 | $812k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $784k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $826k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $917k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $2.5M | 6% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $2.7M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $2.7M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $2.8M | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barberton Public Schools | $12,356,249 | 9 | n/a |
| Barberton Community Development Corporation | $1,082,368 | 4 | 23% |
| City of Barberton | $782,778 | 8 | n/a |
| Magical Theatre Company | $225,403 | 9 | 7% |
| Bounce Innovation Hub | $211,287 | 4 | 2% |
| Victim Assistance Program Inc | $129,800 | 6 | 1% |
| Greater Akron Chamber | $125,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Barberton Area Community Ministries Inc | $114,357 | 6 | 11% |
| Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank | $111,226 | 7 | 0% |
| Axess Family Services Inc | $96,500 | 6 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
The Barberton Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Akron Community Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Tuscora Park Health & Wellness Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · United Way of Summit and Medina · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Gar Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Barberton Community Foundation
- How much does The Barberton Community Foundation give?
- The Barberton Community Foundation reported 23 itemized grants totaling $812,191, out of $1,154,002 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Barberton Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (78%), Community Improvement (10%), Health (3%).
- Who are The Barberton Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Barberton Public Schools ($12M), Barberton Community Development Corporation ($1.1M), City of Barberton ($783k).
- Does The Barberton Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Barberton Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Akron Community Foundation, The Welty Family Foundation, Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn.
- Where is The Barberton Community Foundation based?
- The Barberton Community Foundation is based in OH.
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