· Private foundation
The Fisher-Renkert 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP - Career Apprenticeship and Mentorship Program | $21,000 |
| Akron Canton Regional Foodbank | $15,000 |
| JRC Learning Center | $10,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Greater Stark & Carroll Counties | $10,000 |
| Smith College Trustees | $10,000 |
| Refuge of Hope Ministries | $7,500 |
| Canton Museum of Art | $7,200 |
| Early Childhood Resource Center | $5,000 |
| United Way of Greater Stark County | $5,000 |
| Musical Arts Association | $5,000 |
| Margaret B Shipley Child Health Clinic | $5,000 |
| Canton Symphony Orchestra | $5,000 |
| Tile Heritage Foundation | $5,000 |
| Pathway Caring for Children | $3,000 |
| Community Drop-In Center | $2,500 |
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, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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 · $185k · revenue +43%
- ROREFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +48%
- JRJ R COLEMAN FAMILY SERVICES CORP7× · 2017–2023 · $70k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +52%
- MCMONTEREY COUNTY FAIR HERITAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -88%
- TOTrustees of the Smith College Controller's Officeone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
Emmanuel's mission is to provide instruction in god's word and conventional instruction that meets or exceeds state standards for all who desire a biblical foundation. to serve children who historically have been defined as at-risk of not…
Our mission is to empower children and adults with disabilities and (continued on schedule o) their families to achieve their greatest potential through holistic and family-focused services.
Moca's mission- art now, in progress - embodies our nature as a living, adaptive platform for artistic experimentation, public exchange, and civic connection. our vision - artists & art lead us to the unfamiliar, where we open and connect…
The Avery Coonley School elevates high-achieving and gifted learners through immersion in a mutually talented community where intellect, curiosity, and creativity are enhanced by optimal challenge.
To welcome all to our music and arts community to learn, create, celebrate and heal.
Akron soul train (ast) is a multidisciplinary residency program that provides 12-15 artists each year with paid residencies. our mission is to offer ohio-based visual, performing, and literary artists the space, time, and financial…
Improving the health of the people in our communities by providing quality, compassionate care to everyone, every time.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Summit artspace connects artists and artist-serving organizations to the community and to the resources they need to thrive professionally, creatively, and financially. its core values of creativity, collaboration, and community guide the…
Our mission: create and discover beauty to foster a community empowered by the arts. this reflects our highest aspirations for our organization as we strive for artistic excellence and represents the pedagogical principal in all our…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commquest Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Musical Arts Association. 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 53 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 35 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 REFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds J R COLEMAN FAMILY SERVICES CORP ↗
- Who funds TILE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Stark County ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEATS TO THE CITY ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS FARM ↗
- Who funds MARGARET B SHIPLEY CHILD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN STARK ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Total Living Center ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY FAIR HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Canton Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Hannah's House 119 ↗
- Who funds Canton Symphony Orchestra Association ↗
- Who funds COMMQUEST SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
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: 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
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 Fisher-Renkert 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.
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% 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.