· Private foundation
The Bruce & Erica Greer Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Akron Canton Regional Foodbank | $4,000 |
| Ideastream Public Media | $3,000 |
| Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens Development | $2,000 |
| Akron Civic Theater | $2,000 |
| Summit Metro Parks Foundation | $2,000 |
| Akron Art Museum | $2,000 |
| Summit County Historical Society (SCHS) | $2,000 |
| Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park | $1,750 |
| Let's Grow Akron | $1,500 |
| Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition | $1,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio | $1,000 |
| United Way of Summit and Medina County | $1,000 |
| NPCA(National Parks Conservation Association) | $1,000 |
| Ohio Environmental Council | $1,000 |
| International Institute of Akron | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $10k) 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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
45 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +43%
- SHSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +38%
- AAAKRON ART MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- NENORTHEASTERN EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION OF OHIO INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -5%
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +208%
- WRWestern Reserve Public Media (PBS 4549)one grant, 2018 · $500
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.
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…
We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
Land conservation and restoration for public benefit
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
To identify, activate, and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community. we accomplish this by:- building a permanent source of charitable funding- cultivating strategic…
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
The environmental law & policy center (elpc) is the midwest's leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and ecobusiness innovation organization, and among the nation's leaders. we develop and lead successful strategic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 53 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-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT METRO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LETS GROW AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds ELDERHEART INC ↗
- Who funds STARKFRESH ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds POLICY MATTERS OHIO ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) ↗
- Who funds BREAKING BARRIERS - HOPE IS ALIVE ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER RISING ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERMUSEUM CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
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 · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · The Richard S and Alita Rogers Family Foundation · Gar Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Lehner Family Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Firstenergy Foundation · The Feth Family Foundation · Bokom Foundation Inc · The Patricia & J Harvey Graves Family 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 Bruce & Erica Greer Family 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.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.