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The Giving Foundation Inc

To make a difference in our community through the donations we sell and the charities we serve.

$232k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Human Services$143kHousing & Shelter$24kHealth$19kFood & Nutrition$13kEducation$6k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $170,350, the rows itemized in this filing. The $231,625 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $61,275 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $119k
$8,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$519k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Free Clinic of Medina Co$6,000
Friends of Medina County Home$6,000
Feeding Medina County$6,000
Live Inspired$5,500
Veterans of Medina County$5,250
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Catholic Charities (food shelf): $8k → 17%The Hands Foundation: $14k → 7%Hope and Healing: $14k → 7%Medina Cty Senior & Adult Foundation: $11k → 7%Live Inspired: $6k → 7%Home and Healing: $5k → 7%The Hands Foundation: $5k → 7%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.
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$118k · 4 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$118k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MEDINA COUNTY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $54k · revenue +9%
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR HANDICAPPED CITIZENS OF MEDINA COUNTY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $27k · revenue 0%
  • HA
    Hands Across Medina County Foundation
    2× · 2024–2025 · $19k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • GG
    GRACE GIVING
    one grant, 2025 · $13k · revenue +48%
  • MC
    MEDINA COUNTY SENIOR AND ADULT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $11k · revenue +107%
  • NP
    Newbridge Place
    one grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Medina County Food Pantry

Provide emergency food for those in need.

Human Services
2
Medina Community Design Committee
Community Improvement
3
Cathy's House Inc

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.

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4
Hospice of Medina County

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,…

—
5
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
6
Meridian Healthcare

Elimination of drug addiction and abuse.

—
7
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
8
Medina Creative Housing Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
Medina Senior Center Inc

To promote the health and well-being of seniors in medina county so that none are left isolated or hungry.

Food & Nutrition
10
The Eliza Jennings Home

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…

Health
11
Malachi House Inc

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…

—
12
Operation Homes
Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Medina County; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 15 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hands Across Medina County Foundation: $19,000 · Human ServicesHands Across Medina County Foundat…HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $18,500 · Human ServicesHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE…MEDINA COUNTY SENIOR AND ADULT FOUNDATION: $11,100 · Human ServicesMEDINA COUNTY SENIOR AND ADULT FOU…CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $8,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATIONLIVE INSPIRED: $5,500 · Human ServicesLIVE INSPIREDTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MEDINA COUNTY: $53,700 · Crime & LegalTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MEDI…SOCIETY FOR HANDICAPPED CITIZENS OF MEDINA COUNTY INC: $27,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR HANDICAPPED CITIZ…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MEDINA COUNTY INC: $7,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MEDIN…MEDINA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $7,000 · OtherMEDINA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHFRIENDS OF MEDINA COUNTY HOME: $6,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF MEDINA COUNTY HOMEJOINT VETERANS COALITION OF MEDINA COUNTY: $5,250 · OtherJOINT VETERANS COALITION OF M…GRACE GIVING: $12,500 · PhilanthropyNewbridge Place: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFEEDING MEDINA COUNTY: $6,000 · Food & NutritionFREE CLINIC OF MEDINA COUNTY: $6,000 · Health
Human Services$62,100Crime & Legal$53,700Other$52,750Philanthropy$12,500Housing & Shelter$10,000Food & Nutrition$6,000Health$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MEDINA COUNTY: $53,700 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR HANDICAPPED CITIZENS OF MEDINA COUNTY INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHands Across Medina County Foundation: $19,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $18,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNewbridge Place: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MEDINA COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF MEDINA COUNTY: $6,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetLIVE INSPIRED: $5,500 over 1y, 8.8% 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.

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…The Westfield Insuran…Foe #2224 Charity Fun…Jackie & Bruce Davey …The Hillier Family Fo…The Clara Weiss FundNorthern Ohio Golf Ch…Charles Schwab Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Akron Community FoundationOH21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Giving Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Giving Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Giving Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Giving Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 15 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 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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