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The Johnson-Kazar Charitable Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k58 grants · $146k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Career Apprenticeship & Mentoring Program (CAMP) | $20,000 |
| National First Ladies Library & Museum | $10,000 |
| Arts In Stark | $7,500 |
| 261 Fearless Inc | $7,500 |
| Planned Parenthood | $7,500 |
| Double H Ranch | $5,000 |
| Shaw JCC of Akron | $5,000 |
| Gennesaret | $5,000 |
| Akron Marathon Sustainability Fund (at ACF) | $5,000 |
| Phoenix Theatre Company | $5,000 |
| Akron Area YMCA | $5,000 |
| Canton Palace Theatre | $5,000 |
| Akron Canton Regional Food Bank | $5,000 |
| CARE | $5,000 |
| First Tee Of Canton | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 9 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK8× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +41%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO5× · 2018–2022 · $40k · revenue +55%
- SCStark County Hunger Task Force Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $33k · revenue +223%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PLACE AZgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +54%
- ADAMERICA'S DENTISTS CARE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +29%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.
To engage the akron, ohio community around the creation and sustainability of vibrant public spaces within the city of akron. we foster and support neighborhood park advocates by enabling them to meet their goals, partner with the city and…
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.
Empowering ohio communities to take greater responsibility for improving our local environment through litter prevention, beautification, community greening, waste reduction and recycling.
As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stark Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Honor Flight Cleveland Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 145 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 ARTS IN STARK ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds Stark County Hunger Task Force Inc ↗
- Who funds GENNESARET INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds Caring and Serving Together - CAST ↗
- Who funds STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fore Stark County Youth Development Inc ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 261 FEARLESS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED DISABILITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE TONTO NATIONAL FOREST INC ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Meb Maintaining Excellent Balance Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF AKRON ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FIRST LADIES LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CANTON PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds OHIO CPA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Stark Parks ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
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 · Akron Community Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Hoover Foundation Income Account · The Welty Family Foundation · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Lehner Family Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · United Way of Summit and Medina · Gpd Group Employees Foundation Inc
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 The Johnson-Kazar Charitable 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.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% 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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