Ohio · Private foundation
The Fisher-Renkert Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $125k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Fisher-Renkert Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 19 | $125k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $110k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $105k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $100k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $91k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $101k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $106k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $118k | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank | $185,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Refuge of Hope Ministries | $80,000 | 8 | 1% |
| J R Coleman Family Services Corp | $70,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Tile Heritage Foundation | $50,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Early Childhood Resource Center | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Stark County | $39,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Heartbeats to the City | $33,000 | 4 | 1% |
| St Pauls Episcopal Church | $27,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Musical Arts Association | $26,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Pegasus Farm | $25,500 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank | $185,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Refuge of Hope Ministries | $80,000 | 8 | 1% |
| J R Coleman Family Services Corp | $70,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Tile Heritage Foundation | $50,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Early Childhood Resource Center | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Stark County | $39,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Heartbeats to the City | $33,000 | 4 | 1% |
| St Pauls Episcopal Church | $27,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Musical Arts Association | $26,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Pegasus Farm | $25,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Community Drop-In Center Inc | $25,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Margaret B Shipley Child Health Clinic Inc | $25,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Arts in Stark | $18,800 | 8 | 0% |
| Pathway Caring for Children | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Total Living Center | $11,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Trustees of the Smith College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Monterey County Fair Heritage Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Canton Museum of Art | $7,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Hannah's House 119 | $6,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Yale University | $4,650 | 3 | n/a |
| Yale University | $3,100 | 2 | n/a |
| Commquest Services Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Canton Symphony Orchestra Association | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Trustees of Phillips Academy | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($226k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Fisher-Renkert Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Stark Community Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · Hoover W Henry Fund Ta · William & Minnette Goldsmith Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · Sterling Family Foundation · Henry & Louise Timken Foundation · Diebold Employees Charitable Fd Ta · Albert W & Edith V Flowers Charitable · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation
How this is measured
About The Fisher-Renkert Foundation
- How much does The Fisher-Renkert Foundation give?
- The Fisher-Renkert Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $125,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Fisher-Renkert Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (20%), Human Services (16%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are The Fisher-Renkert Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank ($185k), Refuge of Hope Ministries ($80k), J R Coleman Family Services Corp ($70k).
- Does The Fisher-Renkert Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fisher-Renkert Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Fisher-Renkert Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stark Community Foundation, Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton, Hoover Foundation Income Account.
- Where is The Fisher-Renkert Foundation based?
- The Fisher-Renkert Foundation is based in OH.
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