Ohio · Private foundation
The Gessner Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $38,750
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $291,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 34
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $27M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations The Gessner Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 28 | $1.4M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $1.3M | 6% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $1.4M | 6% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $1.2M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $963k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massillon Museum | $557,600 | 5 | 11% |
| Stark Economic Development Board Inc | $415,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Massillon Heritage Foundation Inc | $390,000 | 5 | 93% |
| Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank | $340,000 | 5 | 0% |
| United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co | $280,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Stark State College Foundation | $270,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Beacon Charitable Pharmacy Inc | $230,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Friends of Massillon Public Library | $185,000 | 5 | 69% |
| Refuge of Hope Ministries | $165,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Boys' & Girls' Club of Massillon Inc | $150,000 | 5 | 3% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Gessner Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · United Way of Greater Stark County · Health Foundation of Greater Massillon · Diebold Employees Charitable Fd Ta · The Belden Brick Charitable Trust · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund
How this is measured
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About The Gessner Family Foundation
- How much does The Gessner Family Foundation give?
- The Gessner Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $1,420,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Gessner Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Housing & Shelter (17%), Education (13%).
- Who are The Gessner Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Massillon Museum ($558k), Stark Economic Development Board Inc ($415k), Massillon Heritage Foundation Inc ($390k).
- Does The Gessner Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gessner Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gessner Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stark Community Foundation, Hoover Foundation Income Account, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Gessner Family Foundation based?
- The Gessner Family Foundation is based in OH.
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