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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 FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$196k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$12MCommunity Improvement$1.7MHealth$439kRecreation & Sports$297kArts & Culture$264kFood & Nutrition$215kHuman Services$119kCrime & Legal$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 24 grants below total $783,690 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,227,653 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $443,963 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $510k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$103M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BARBERTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$195,715
THE GREATER AKRON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$125,000
CITY OF BARBERTON$104,697
MAIN STREET BARBERTON INC$85,000
VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC$25,000
SUMMA HEALTH$22,500
LIMITLESS AMBITION INC$20,000
BARBERTON DIAMOND SPORTS$17,500
BARBERTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS$17,109
KAVE COFFEE BAR LLC$15,088
CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS$15,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC$15,000
NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC$15,000
VANTAGE AGING$13,000
MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY$12,081
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $381k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SUMMIT PORTAGE & MEDINA COUNTIES: $5k → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $15k → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $10k → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $10k → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $10k → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $8k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $27k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $25k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $21k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $17k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $15k → 13%VANTAGE AGING: $13k → 13%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $8k → 13%BARBERTON AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $45k → 13%BARBERTON AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $23k → 13%LAKE ANNA YMCA: $19k → 13%LAKE ANNA YMCA: $16k → 13%BARBERTON AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $13k → 13%BARBERTON AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $12k → 13%BARBERTON AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $11k → 13%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF ST AUGUSTINE CHURCH: $11k → 13%BARBERTON AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $10k → 13%LAKE ANNA YMCA: $9k → 13%LAKE ANNA YMCA: $8k → 13%LAKE ANNA YMCA: $7k → 13%LAKE ANNA YMCA: $7k → 13%LAKE ANNA YMCA: $6k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 30 repeat orgs$393k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
15

Total granted

$15M
$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+10%

Still filing today

83%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationAnimalsOther

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

  • MT
    MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $188k · revenue +41%
  • BI
    BOUNCE INNOVATION HUB
    3× · 2022–2024 · $155k · revenue +26%
  • BA
    BARBERTON AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $114k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • TC
    TRI COUNTY JOBS FOR OHIO'S GRADUATESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $27k · revenue +58%
  • AM
    AKRON METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2021 · $18k
  • WR
    WHITE RABBIT GALLERIES
    one grant, 2022 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

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2
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce

The chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.

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3
Summit Community Care Clinic Inc

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.

Health
4
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
5
Ohio Chamber of Commerce

As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.

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6
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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7
The Goodwill Industries of Akron Ohio Inc

Goodwill industries of akron, ohio, inc is a not-for-profit corporation that helps individuals prepare for, find, and retain employment. goodwill serves the five-county region of summit, portage, medina, ashland, and richland. goodwill…

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8
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
9
Ohio State Bar Association

The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.

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10
Jobsohio

To promote economic development, job creation, job retention, job training, workforce development, and the retention of current and recruitment of new business to ohio.

Employment
11
Mount Carmel Health System

We, mount carmel health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mount carmel health system is a member of trinity health.

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12
Caromont Health

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of Summit County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Magical Theatre Company. 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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%9%5–10yr17%11%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr16%33%35–55yr17%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%9%5–10yr17%3%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr16%58%35–55yr17%13%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
13%
420/3,190

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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 54 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
30/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BARBERTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $12,286,743 · OtherBARBERTON PUBLIC SCHOOLSCITY OF BARBERTON — $782,778 · OtherCITY OF BARBERTON+23 more — $631,772 · OtherBARBERTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $811,148 · Community ImprovementBOUNCE INNOVATION HUB — $155,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementBARBERTON AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $114,357 · Human ServicesVICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC — $104,800 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AKRON INC — $71,965 · Human ServicesCHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS — $52,700 · Human ServicesVANTAGE AGING — $13,000 · Human Services+3 more — $24,192 · Human ServicesAXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC — $89,000 · HealthSumma Health — $70,500 · HealthSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY — $56,000 · HealthEMBRACING FUTURES INC — $50,147 · HealthCARESTAR COMMUNITY SERVICES — $43,744 · HealthCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC — $40,000 · Health+2 more — $13,500 · HealthMAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY — $187,919 · Arts & CultureWHITE RABBIT GALLERIES — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSUMMIT ARTSPACE — $15,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC — $12,500 · Arts & CultureARTSNOW — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $12,000 · Arts & CultureCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $90,000 · EducationLIMITLESS AMBITION INC — $20,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA — $80,000 · Philanthropy
Other$13,701,293Community Improvement$976,148Human Services$381,014Health$362,891Arts & Culture$252,419Education$110,000Philanthropy$80,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBARBERTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $811,148 over 3y, 23% of budgetMAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY — $187,919 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetBOUNCE INNOVATION HUB — $155,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetGREATER AKRON CHAMBER — $125,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBARBERTON AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $114,357 over 6y, 11% of budgetVICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC — $104,800 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $90,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC — $89,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA — $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC — $80,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AKRON INC — $71,965 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSumma Health — $70,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY — $56,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS — $52,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK — $52,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRACING FUTURES INC — $50,147 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetPASTORAL COUNSELING SERVICE OF SUMMIT CO — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCARESTAR COMMUNITY SERVICES — $43,744 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARBERTON SUMMIT COUNTY FREE CLINIC BARBERTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC — $28,207 over 5y, 92% of budgetTRI COUNTY JOBS FOR OHIO'S GRADUATES — $26,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIMITLESS AMBITION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCUYAHOGA VALLEY COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY — $19,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION — $15,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSUMMIT ARTSPACE — $15,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — $13,400 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGREENLEAF FAMILY CENTER — $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVANTAGE AGING — $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL SOCIETY OF SVDP CLEVELAND DIOCESE — $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CONSERVATION SERVICES OF BARBERTON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetARTSNOW — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGREAT TRAIL COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGirls on the Run of Greater Summit Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohio — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER — $8,192 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERVAL BROTHERHOOD HOMES INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOhioGuidestone — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGreater Akron Musical Association Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Akron Community Found…The Welty Family Foun…Sisler McFawn Foundat…Tuscora Park Health &…Lehner Family Foundat…Charles E and Mabel M…Northern Ohio Golf Ch…United Way of Summit …Burton D Morgan Found…W Paul Mills & Thora …L R Moffitt & L W Mof…Gar Foundation
Akron Community FoundationOH59.7× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Barberton Community Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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