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The Johnson-Kazar Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$176k
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$174kPhilanthropy$173kRecreation & Sports$128kHuman Services$105kFood & Nutrition$100kArts & Culture$98kEnvironment$83kYouth Development$67kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k58 grants · $146k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Career Apprenticeship & Mentoring Program (CAMP)$20,000
National First Ladies Library & Museum$10,000
Planned Parenthood$7,500
261 Fearless Inc$7,500
Arts In Stark$7,500
Canton Palace Theatre$5,000
CARE$5,000
Gennesaret$5,000
Double H Ranch$5,000
Akron Area YMCA$5,000
Phoenix Theatre Company$5,000
Akron Marathon Sustainability Fund (at ACF)$5,000
Shaw JCC of Akron$5,000
Akron Canton Regional Food Bank$5,000
First Tee Of Canton$3,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Firefighter Cancer Support Network: $1k → 14%Mobile Comunidad: $3k → 13%Mobile Comunidad: $3k → 13%Mobile Comunidad: $3k → 13%Caring and Serving Together - CAST: $20k → 13%Blossom Hill: $3k → 17%Blossom Hill: $3k → 17%Caring and Serving Together - CAST: $2k → 13%Blossom Hill: $3k → 17%Caring and Serving Together - CAST: $2k → 13%Caring and Serving Together - CAST: $2k → 13%Caring and Serving Together - CAST: $2k → 13%Shaw JCC of Akron: $10k → 13%Shaw JCC of Akron: $5k → 13%South Street Ministries: $2k → 13%South Street Ministries: $2k → 13%Compassion Delivered: $1k → 13%Akron Area YMCA: $5k → 13%Akron Area YMCA: $5k → 13%Akron Area YMCA: $3k → 13%Akron Area YMCA: $3k → 13%Akron Area YMCA: $3k → 13%Akron Area YMCA: $3k → 13%Akron Area YMCA: $3k → 13%Akron Area YMCA: $3k → 13%Akron Area YMCA: $1k → 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
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
RI
CA
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 85 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
48

Total granted

$1.1M
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+10%

Still filing today

55%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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
    8× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +41%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO
    5× · 2018–2022 · $40k · revenue +55%
  • SC
    Stark County Hunger Task Force Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $33k · revenue +223%

Funded once

  • FP
    FIRST PLACE AZgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +54%
  • RO
    RMH OF AKRONINC
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +41%
  • HF
    Honor Flight Cleveland Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -49%
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
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
2
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
3
Akron Zoological Park

We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.

Animals
4
Akron Parks Collaborative

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…

Recreation & Sports
5
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

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…

Philanthropy
6
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

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…

Philanthropy
7
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement
8
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

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

Human Services
9
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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10
Diabetes Partnership of Cleveland

Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.

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11
Keep Ohio Beautiful Inc

Empowering ohio communities to take greater responsibility for improving our local environment through litter prevention, beautification, community greening, waste reduction and recycling.

Community Improvement
12
Ohio Chamber of Commerce

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stark Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 145 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/71
Grantees still filing
51/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Aultman Foundation: $62,000 · OtherAultman FoundationAkron Marathon Sustainability Fund (at ACF): $41,000 · OtherAkron Marathon Sustainability Fund (at ACF)GENNESARET INC: $32,500 · OtherPlanned Parenthood: $25,000 · Other+104 more: $530,900 · Other+104 moreUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $32,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropySTARK COMM…AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $21,500 · PhilanthropyAKRON COMM…FOOTHILLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · PhilanthropyFOOTHILLS …VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $12,500 · PhilanthropyVALLEY OF …+2 more: $3,500 · PhilanthropyARTS IN STARK: $60,000 · Arts & CultureARTS IN S…NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL …NORTH CANTON PLAYHOUSE: $11,500 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAN…THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY: $7,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHOEN…CANTON PALACE THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION: $4,500 · Arts & CultureDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsFore Stark County Youth Development Inc: $22,500 · Recreation & Sports261 FEARLESS INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsBUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 · Recreation & SportsAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY: $9,500 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AKRON INC: $28,500 · Human ServicesCaring and Serving Together - CAST: $26,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF AKRON: $15,000 · Human ServicesMOBILE COMUNIDAD: $7,500 · Human ServicesBLOSSOM HILL INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesSOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC: $3,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $42,500 · Food & NutritionStark County Hunger Task Force Inc: $32,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD PANTRY OF JEFF DAVIS COUNTY INC: $7,500 · Food & NutritionPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $40,000 · HealthSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $18,000 · HealthAMERICA'S DENTISTS CARE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $2,500 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · Health
Other$691,400Philanthropy$112,000Arts & Culture$100,500Recreation & Sports$96,500Human Services$89,500Food & Nutrition$82,500Health$65,000

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 budgetARTS IN STARK: $60,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $42,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStark County Hunger Task Force Inc: $32,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetGENNESARET INC: $32,500 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AKRON INC: $28,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCaring and Serving Together - CAST: $26,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetSTARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFore Stark County Youth Development Inc: $22,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetAKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $21,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budget261 FEARLESS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED DISABILITY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE TONTO NATIONAL FOREST INC: $20,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $18,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFOOTHILLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF AKRON: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Meb Maintaining Excellent Balance Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL FIRST LADIES LIBRARY: $12,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetARIZONA TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $12,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CANTON PLAYHOUSE: $11,500 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetOHIO CPA FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Stark Parks: $10,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY: $9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTarry House Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY: $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGirls on the Run of Stark County: $7,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMOBILE COMUNIDAD: $7,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBLOSSOM HILL INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD PANTRY OF JEFF DAVIS COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGirls on the Run of Greater Summit Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohio: $7,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLETS GROW AKRON INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANTON PALACE THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST PLACE AZ: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONE OF A KIND PET RESCUE INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRMH OF AKRONINC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF AKRON ↗
  • Who funds The Meb Maintaining Excellent Balance Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FIRST LADIES LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CANTON PLAYHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds OHIO CPA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Stark Parks ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗

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.

Stark Community Found…Akron Community Found…L R Moffitt & L W Mof…Burton D Morgan Found…Hoover Foundation Inc…The Welty Family Foun…Northern Ohio Golf Ch…Sisler McFawn Foundat…Lehner Family Foundat…Charles E and Mabel M…United Way of Summit …Gpd Group Employees F…
Stark Community FoundationOH39.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Johnson-Kazar Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Johnson-Kazar Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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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 145 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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