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The James & Deborah Haag Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$49k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 20
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The James & Deborah Haag Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$49k6%
FY202417$47k0%
FY202319$50k5%
FY202220$51k15%
FY202120$51k10%
FY202019$47k37%
FY201914$46kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$69kEducation$56kReligion$46kHealth$40kFood & Nutrition$27kHousing & Shelter$20kRecreation & Sports$20kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IA
OH
CA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Vincent - St Mary High School$35,0007n/a
Haven of Rest Ministries Incorporated$33,0007n/a
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank$28,00070%
Catholic Charities Corporation$25,00050%
Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute$20,00040%
American Heart Association Inc$17,50070%
St Joseph Parish$17,0005n/a
Peter Maurin Center of Akron$14,50061%
Northeast Ohio Foundation for Patriotism$9,20061%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$7,60060%
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All grantees of The James & Deborah Haag Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Vincent - St Mary High School$35,0007n/a
Haven of Rest Ministries Incorporated$33,0007n/a
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank$28,00070%
Catholic Charities Corporation$25,00050%
Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute$20,00040%
American Heart Association Inc$17,50070%
St Joseph Parish$17,0005n/a
Peter Maurin Center of Akron$14,50061%
Northeast Ohio Foundation for Patriotism$9,20061%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$7,60060%
Magical Theatre Company$6,00050%
Good Samaritan Hunger Center$4,50031%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$3,50070%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$3,50070%
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression$3,40020%
Active Minds Inc$3,40020%
Rmh of Akroninc$2,50010%
Mid-Ohio Foodbank$2,00010%
Our Lady of Victory Institutions Inc$5001n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($104k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The James & Deborah Haag Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAkron-Canton Regional Foodbank: $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities Corporation: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEdwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPeter Maurin Center of Akron: $14,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetNortheast Ohio Foundation for Patriotism: $9,200 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc: $7,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMagical Theatre Company: $6,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGood Samaritan Hunger Center: $4,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNational Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression: $3,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetActive Minds Inc: $3,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRmh of Akroninc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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 FoundationOH15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to The James & Deborah Haag Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The James & Deborah Haag Foundation 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.

About The James & Deborah Haag Foundation

How much does The James & Deborah Haag Foundation give?
The James & Deborah Haag Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $49,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The James & Deborah Haag Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Education (19%), Religion (16%).
Who are The James & Deborah Haag Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: St Vincent - St Mary High School ($35k), Haven of Rest Ministries Incorporated ($33k), Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank ($28k).
Does The James & Deborah Haag Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The James & Deborah Haag 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 James & Deborah Haag Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Akron Community Foundation, Firstenergy Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is The James & Deborah Haag Foundation based?
The James & Deborah Haag Foundation is based in OH.

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 28 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-PF 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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