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The Feth Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$275k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.4MArts & Culture$320kHuman Services$286kReligion$210kSocial Science$195kEducation$142kHealth$129kCommunity Improvement$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$2,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT COUNTY$100,000
UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT COUNTY$50,000
HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES$15,000
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA$10,000
SHELBY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC AKRON GENERAL$5,000
CASE WESTERN RESERVE$5,000
IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC$5,000
CUYAHOGA VALLEY PRESERVATION & SCENIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION$5,000
LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS USA$5,000
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$5,000
AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK$3,000
OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY - OPEN-M$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OHIO LIVING FOUNDATION: $1k → 5%OHIO LIVING FOUNDATION: $1k → 5%OHIO LIVING FOUNDATION: $1k → 5%OHIO LIVING FOUNDATION: $1k → 5%OHIO LIVING FOUNDATION: $1k → 5%OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY - OPEN-M: $3k → 13%OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY - OPEN-M: $3k → 13%OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY - OPEN-M: $2k → 13%OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY - OPEN-M: $2k → 13%SOUTH STREET MINISTRIES: $750 → 13%SOUTH STREET MINISTRIES: $750 → 13%SOUTH STREET MINISTRIES: $750 → 13%SOUTH STREET MINISTRIES: $750 → 13%SOUTH STREET MINISTRIES: $500 → 13%SOUTH STREET MINISTRIES: $500 → 13%SOUTH STREET MINISTRIES: $500 → 13%SOUTH STREET MINISTRIES: $500 → 13%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $1k → 13%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $1k → 13%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $750 → 13%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $750 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 70 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

70 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
7

Total granted

$2.7M
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+43%

Still filing today

41%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionEducationHealthInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SC
    SHELBY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +234%
  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +45%
  • IT
    IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +46%
  • FL
    FAIRLAWN LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +13%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ohio Bankers League

Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.

Community Improvement
2
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
3
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
4
University of New Haven

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…

Education
5
Atrium Medical Center Foundation

To develop charitable gifts and resources dedicated to building healthier communities in southwest ohio.

Health
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
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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8
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
Augustana College

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…

Education
10
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
11
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We Raise Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/41
Grantees still filing
31/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $1,330,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA+2 more: $40,500 · PhilanthropyHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $225,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLSHELBY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $140,000 · OtherSHELBY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYSALVATION ARMY SUMMIT COUNTY AREA SERVICES: $110,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY SUMMIT COUNTY AREA SERVICESWKSU KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $81,750 · OtherWKSU KENT STATE UNIVERSITYHAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $75,000 · OtherHAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES INCORPORATEDSALVATION ARMY: $70,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYCLEVELAND CLINIC AKRON GENERAL: $55,000 · Other+49 more: $377,900 · Other+49 moreThe Musical Arts Association: $82,500 · Arts & CultureAKRON ART MUSEUM: $23,000 · Arts & CultureSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureCUYAHOGA VALLEY PRESERVATION AND SCENIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION: $8,750 · Arts & CultureWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,100 · Arts & CultureMILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $60,750 · ReligionTurning Point for God: $3,500 · Religion+2 more: $2,500 · ReligionCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $44,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $6,500 · EducationAIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION: $5,750 · EducationSIGMA NU EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,500 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY: $10,000 · Human ServicesOHIO LIVING FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $3,500 · Human ServicesAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $23,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$1,370,500Other$1,134,650Arts & Culture$137,350Religion$66,750Education$62,750Human Services$33,500Food & Nutrition$23,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $1,330,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetSHELBY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $140,000 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $82,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $60,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $44,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAKRON ART MUSEUM: $23,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $23,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $13,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL: $10,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCUYAHOGA VALLEY PRESERVATION AND SCENIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION: $8,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $5,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION: $5,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT TRAIL COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $5,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO LIVING FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIGMA NU EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MODEL RAILROAD ASSOC INC: $5,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $4,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADE LOCKS PARK ASSOCIATION: $4,250 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetAKRON PREGNANCY SERVICES: $4,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point for God: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $3,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO: $3,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT LEARN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIBLEPROJECT: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWE RAISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 SUMMIT COUNTY ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
  • 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 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 CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
  • Who funds AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

Akron Community Found…Sisler McFawn Foundat…Lehner Family Foundat…The Welty Family Foun…Gar FoundationUnited Way of Summit …Fw Albrecht Family Fo…Mary S & David C Corb…Kenneth L Calhoun Cha…L R Moffitt & L W Mof…Burton D Morgan Found…Howland Memorial Fund
Akron Community FoundationOH39.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Feth Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Feth Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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