· Public charity
Greater Alliance Foundation Inc
To provide individuals and other entities interested in the quality of life in the alliance area the opportunity to direct their giving towards identifiable and worthy needs that sometimes go unmet by established charitable resources.
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.
The 32 grants below total $1,437,942 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,578,199 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $140,257 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 $10k9 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $376k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $756k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YWCA OF ALLIANCE | $250,045 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION | $197,500 |
| ALLIANCE AREA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER | $167,235 |
| RAPTOR HALLOW SANCTUARY | $114,141 |
| ALLIANCE FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC | $97,000 |
| CARNATION CITY PLAYERS | $76,000 |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC | $54,386 |
| ELLIE'S RAINY DAY FUND | $50,000 |
| ALLIANCE FAMILY YMCA | $47,933 |
| STUCKEY FAMILY INTERFAITH DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $43,694 |
| ASPIRE MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| ALLIANCE PREGNANCY CENTER | $38,197 |
| BEECH CREEK BOTANICAL GARDEN AND NATURE PRESERVE | $34,810 |
| CITY OF ALLIANCE | $34,575 |
| CAMP INVENTION - NATIONAL INVENTOR'S HALL OF FAME | $30,000 |
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, $246k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
50 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k 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
- UOUniversity of Mount Union9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +37%
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ALLIANCE OHIO8× · 2018–2025 · $720k · revenue +98% · 27% of their budget
- ICInterfaith Child Development Center of Alliance Ohio9× · 2017–2025 · $593k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- SSTARKFRESHgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $104k · revenue +71% · 31% of their budget
- SASTARK ATHLETIC ENHANCEMENT CORPone grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue -51%
- STST THOMAS AQUINASone grant, 2024 · $50k
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 alliance community health foundation's mission is to support the health care needs of the residents of alliance, ohio.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
We are a grassroots driven and governed organization that advocates and educates on behalf of the YMCAs and its mission, upholding the four core YMCA values of caring, honestly, respect, and responsibility. The Alliance also fosters…
To identify, activate, and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community. we accomplish this by:- building a permanent source of charitable funding- cultivating strategic…
United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
Donor Alliance saves and heals lives through organ and tissue donation. Donor Alliance is one of 55 Federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organizations serving Colorado and most of Wyoming. Additionally, it is a member of the…
Organized for the purpose of creating, developing and effecting programs and projects designed to enhance the economic development of Allen, Auglaize, and Mercer Counties and its citizens, particularly to those areas of the community and…
The mission of ohio tri county food alliance/second harvest food bank is to alleviate hunger in clark, champaign, and logan counties by sourcing and distributing nutritious food to people in need, building community partnerships, and…
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance Family Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is California Lutheran University. 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 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 89 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 University of Mount Union ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ALLIANCE OHIO ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Child Development Center of Alliance Ohio ↗
- Who funds Castle Crusaders ↗
- Who funds Early Childhood Education Alliance ↗
- Who funds PACE DBA ALLIANCE AREA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Ellies Rainy Day Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Stark County ↗
- Who funds Botanical Garden Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MARION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Alliance Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds STARKFRESH ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Alliance Area Development ↗
- Who funds STARK ATHLETIC ENHANCEMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds Carnation City Players Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Central Stark County ↗
- Who funds SISTERS OF CHARITY FOUNDATION OF CANTON ↗
- Who funds CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE COMMUNITY PANTRY INC ↗
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 · United Way of Greater Stark County · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · North Canton Medical Foundation · Christ Foundation · Sangree Foudation · Diebold Employees Charitable Fd Ta · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Health Foundation of Greater Massillon
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 Greater Alliance 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.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Community Greening Corp — 5% 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.
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