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The James & Deborah Haag Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$5k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$69kEducation$56kReligion$46kHealth$40kFood & Nutrition$27kHousing & Shelter$20kRecreation & Sports$20kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CUYAHOGA FALLS GOOD NEIGHBORS INC$5,000
WALSH JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES$5,000
EDWIN'S LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE$5,000
ST VINCENT-STMARY HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOOD BANK$4,000
PETER MAURIN CENTER OF AKRON$2,500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$2,500
VALOR HOMES OF SUMMIT COUNTY$2,000
GOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTER$2,000
NORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM$2,000
MID-OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE$2,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$1,500
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH$1,500
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK$1,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 12%NORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM: $2k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM: $2k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM: $2k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM: $2k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM: $1k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM: $1k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND: $5k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND: $5k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND: $5k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND: $5k → 17%PETER MAURIN CENTER OF AKRON: $3k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND: $3k → 17%PETER MAURIN CENTER OF AKRON: $3k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND: $3k → 17%PETER MAURIN CENTER OF AKRON: $3k → 13%PETER MAURIN CENTER OF AKRON: $3k → 13%PETER MAURIN CENTER OF AKRON: $3k → 13%PETER MAURIN CENTER OF AKRON: $2k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IA
OH
CA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$323k · 21 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
6

Total granted

$323k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+78%

Still filing today

62%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • AR
    AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK
    7× · 2019–2025 · $28k · revenue +18%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $25k · revenue +19%
  • EL
    EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • RO
    RMH OF AKRONINC
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • SM
    ST MARY URBAN EDUCATION ENDOWMENT FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

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

Human Services
3
OhioHealth Corporation Group Return

To improve the health of those we serve.

Health
4
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
5
Atrium Medical Center Foundation

To develop charitable gifts and resources dedicated to building healthier communities in southwest ohio.

Health
6
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
7
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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8
Alliance for Aging Research

The alliance for aging research is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the narrative to achieve healthy aging and equitable access to care.

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9
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

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…

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10
Patient Access Network Foundation

As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…

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11
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Magical Theatre Company. 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

16 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. 16 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST VINCENT - ST MARY HIGH SCHOOL: $35,000 · OtherST VINCENT - ST MARY HIGH SCHOOLWALSH JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $35,000 · OtherWALSH JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLHAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $33,000 · OtherHAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES INCORPORATEDCUYAHOGA FALLS GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $31,500 · OtherCUYAHOGA FALLS GOOD NEIGHBORS INCST JOSEPH PARISH: $17,000 · OtherST JOSEPH PARISHHOLY FAMILY CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $10,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH: $9,500 · OtherVALOR HOMES OF SUMMIT COUNTY: $9,200 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $7,000 · Other+6 more: $10,400 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIE…Peter Maurin Center of Akron: $14,500 · Human ServicesPeter Maurin Cent…NORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM: $9,200 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST OHIO FO…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR P…AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $28,000 · Food & NutritionAKRON-CANT…GOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTER: $4,500 · Food & NutritionGOOD SAMAR…American Heart Association Inc: $17,500 · HealthAmerican H…PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $7,600 · HealthPANCREATIC…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'…Active Minds Inc: $3,400 · HealthActive Min…+1 more: $250 · HealthEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE: $20,000 · EducationMAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY: $6,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$197,600Human Services$52,200Food & Nutrition$32,500Health$32,250Education$20,000Arts & Culture$6,000

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

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
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 AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Peter Maurin Center of Akron ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
  • Who funds Active Minds Inc ↗
  • Who funds RMH OF AKRONINC ↗
  • Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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.

Akron Community Found…Firstenergy FoundationThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The James & Deborah Haag Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James & Deborah Haag Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 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.

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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