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The Marks Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AKRON MARATHON CORPORATION | $2,000 |
| COMUNALE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB | $250 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $250 |
| SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH | $50 |
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 (FY19–21, $1k) 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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SCSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY7× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +82%
- ASAKRON SOUL TRAIN2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +20%
- AARTSNOW2× · 2018–2022 · $700 · revenue +41%
Funded once
- LFLIEBERTH FUND AT ACFone grant, 2024 · $5k
- PPPORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +19%
- LFLISBETH FUND AT AFCone grant, 2023 · $5k
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 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…
We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.
The akron development corporation was organized to support economic development initiatives in the city of akron, particularly through the former akron global business accelerator and to secure state of ohio funding for technology-based…
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
At the akron marathon charitable corporation, our mission is to inspire healthier lives and a stronger community through our three-part race series and events. we are committed to creating dynamic, welcoming race experiences that promote…
To develop charitable gifts and resources dedicated to building healthier communities in southwest ohio.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
To promote business in the tri-county area
To enhance the quality of law and justice through community service and to maintain the integrity of the profession.
To improve the quality of life for the citizens of summit county, particularly african americans, by advocating and facilitating programs that are economically and educationally transformational, impacting their lives and the lives of…
Akron roundtable brings speakers to akron who inform, educate and stimulate listeners on topics of importance to the region, the country and the world.
Align the life sciences ecosystem in the state of ohio, building collaborative partnerships, and advocating for policies and funding that will help to accelerate life science priorities and drive sustainable economic growth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Akron Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Akron Art Museum. 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 43 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 94 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 STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AKRON SOUL TRAIN ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY BOARD OF AKRON ↗
- Who funds Akron History Center ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds J&F Memorial Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CARSON STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ARTSPACE ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSNOW ↗
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: Lehner Family Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Gar Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Synthomer Foundation Inc · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · The Welty Family Foundation · United Way of Summit and Medina · Burton D Morgan 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 Marks Family Foundation 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.
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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