· Private foundation
The Feth Family Foundation
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 $10k31 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT COUNTY | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT COUNTY | $50,000 |
| HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| SHELBY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| CUYAHOGA VALLEY PRESERVATION & SCENIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS USA | $5,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE | $5,000 |
| IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC | $5,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC AKRON GENERAL | $5,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY - OPEN-M | $3,000 |
| AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK | $3,000 |
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, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% 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.
70 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SCSHELBY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +234%
- TMThe Musical Arts Association9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +45%
- ITIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +46%
- FLFAIRLAWN LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $10k
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +13%
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.
Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To develop charitable gifts and resources dedicated to building healthier communities in southwest ohio.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
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.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We Raise Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Akron Art Museum. 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 54 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 81 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 UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA VALLEY PRESERVATION AND SCENIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
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 · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Lehner Family Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Gar Foundation · United Way of Summit and Medina · Fw Albrecht Family Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Howland Memorial Fund
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 Feth 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% 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.