· Private foundation
The Henry V and Frances W Christenson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 3) Kent City Schools | $9,000 |
| 17) Standing Rock Cultural Arts Center | $5,000 |
| 6) Revere Local School District | $3,000 |
| 24) Akron Springfield High School 50 Plus | $3,000 |
| 7) Haven of Rest Ministries Inc | $3,000 |
| 38)Hope & Healing Survivor Resource Center | $3,000 |
| 36) Kent Historical Society | $2,890 |
| 42) Ben Curtis Family Foundation | $2,500 |
| 5) Invent Now | $2,500 |
| 32) Akron Inner City Soccer Club | $2,500 |
| 27) Axess Family Services | $2,500 |
| 2) Kent United Church of Christ | $2,500 |
| 4) Western Reserve Historical Society | $2,500 |
| 28) Axess Family Services | $2,008 |
| 29) Akron-Canton Reg Food Bank | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of The Henry V and Frances W Christenson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 88%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
55 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 8 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KHKENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +38%
- VGVICTORY GALLOP INC6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +29%
- KCKEVIN COLEMAN FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $13k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- 1T16) The Burbick Foundationone grant, 2020 · $5k
- 8K8) Kent Social Servicesone grant, 2020 · $2k
- 8C8) City of Kentone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
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.
To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.
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,…
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.
We, mount carmel health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mount carmel health system is a member of trinity health.
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…
To serve as a center for excellence in the provision of specialized health care services and comfort for patients and families coping with catastrophic illness and injury.
Serves as a safety net for those summit county residents who are most in need of behavioral health services as a result of severe and persistent mental illness the agency proveides comprehensive, high quality, cost-effective treatment,…
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
Akron children's hospital foundation is organized exclusively for the benefit of children's hospital medical center of akron ("chmca"). its purpose is to solicit gifts from donors to further the mission of chmca.
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
The swanson center's compassionate staff is dedicated to improving lives by providing comprehensive, expert mental health and addiction services.
To provide mental health care to children, adults, and families of the fairfield county area and occasionally to other counties in the state of ohio
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 88 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds KENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY GALLOP INC ↗
- Who funds KEVIN COLEMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AKRON INNER CITY SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE PORTAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA VALLEY PRESERVATION AND SCENIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds DR BOB'S HOME ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
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: L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr · Lehner Family Foundation · Gar Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Henry V and Frances W Christenson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Henry V and Frances W Christenson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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