· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AKRON MARATHON CORPORATION | $2,000 |
| COMUNALE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $250 |
| SIERRA CLUB | $250 |
| SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH | $50 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- LFLISBETH FUND AT AFCone grant, 2023 · $5k
- PPPORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +19%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 94 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 SUMMIT ARTSPACE ↗
- Who funds THE CARSON STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSNOW ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Marks Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marks Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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