· Public charity
The Giving Foundation Inc
To make a difference in our community through the donations we sell and the charities we serve.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $170,350 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $231,625 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $61,275 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Children's Center of Medina County | $38,500 |
| The Society | $19,500 |
| The Hands Foundation | $14,000 |
| Hope and Healing | $13,500 |
| Race with Grace | $12,500 |
| Medina Cty Senior & Adult Foundation | $11,100 |
| Newbridge Place | $10,000 |
| Catholic Charities (food shelf) | $8,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $7,500 |
| Medina Personal Care Pantry | $7,000 |
| Feeding Medina County | $6,000 |
| Free Clinic of Medina Co | $6,000 |
| Friends of Medina County Home | $6,000 |
| Live Inspired | $5,500 |
| Veterans of Medina County | $5,250 |
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 (FY24–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 11 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MEDINA COUNTY2× · 2024–2025 · $54k · revenue +9%
- SFSOCIETY FOR HANDICAPPED CITIZENS OF MEDINA COUNTY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $27k · revenue 0%
- HAHands Across Medina County Foundation2× · 2024–2025 · $19k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- GGGRACE GIVINGone grant, 2025 · $13k · revenue +48%
- MCMEDINA COUNTY SENIOR AND ADULT FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $11k · revenue +107%
- NPNewbridge Placeone grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
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 emergency food for those in need.
Provide a sober and safe living environment for individuals who are recovering from alcohol and/or drug addiction and who are making the transition from addiction to sobriety.
Hospice of medina county provides palliative end-of-life care, caregiver support, and bereavement services throughout northern ohio. in celebration of the individual worth of each life, we strive to relieve suffering, enhance comfort,…
Elimination of drug addiction and abuse.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Medina creative housing's mission is to develop quality housing, services and support to enable individuals with disabilities to live their lives with dignity and opportunity.
To promote the health and well-being of seniors in medina county so that none are left isolated or hungry.
We affirm the dignity and individual worth of older adults and their right to attain the highest possible quality of life. We strive to nurture and sustain their physical, emotional, intellectual, social and spiritual health. We are…
Malachi house, created out of a christian sense of ministry, serves persons who are terminally ill, without regard to gender, race, religion or national origin and without cost to the resident of family. this home ministers to individuals…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Medina County and the most unlike its peers is Newbridge Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 15 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 THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MEDINA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR HANDICAPPED CITIZENS OF MEDINA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Hands Across Medina County Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRACE GIVING ↗
- Who funds MEDINA COUNTY SENIOR AND ADULT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Newbridge Place ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MEDINA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING MEDINA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF MEDINA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LIVE INSPIRED ↗
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 · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Foe #2224 Charity Fund Inc · Jackie & Bruce Davey Family Foundation · The Hillier Family Foundation · The Clara Weiss Fund · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · Charles Schwab Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Giving Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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