· Private foundation
The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| AXESS FAMILY SERVICES | $32,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | $30,000 |
| GREATER AKRON MUSICAL ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTE | $30,000 |
| AKRON ART MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $12,500 |
| HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| OPEN M FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| EMBRACING FUTURES INC | $6,000 |
| STAN HYWET HALL GARDENS | $5,300 |
| WEATHERVANE COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE INC | $5,000 |
| ART RESOURCES TRANSFORMATIONS | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $217k · revenue +136%
- GAGreater Akron Musical Association Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $183k · revenue +31%
- TMThe Musical Arts Association6× · 2020–2025 · $161k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMY - SUMMITone grant, 2024 · $13k
- MOMinistry Open Mone grant, 2020 · $8k
- AFAPOLLO'S FIRE BAROQUEone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue -13%
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.
Akron soul train (ast) is a multidisciplinary residency program that provides 12-15 artists each year with paid residencies. our mission is to offer ohio-based visual, performing, and literary artists the space, time, and financial…
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
The mission of leadership akron is to inspire, strengthen, and empower leaders. our purpose is to unlock the potential of leaders and serve as a catalyst that drives them to create a greater akron.
To identify, activate, and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community. we accomplish this by:- building a permanent source of charitable funding- cultivating strategic…
United way of summit & medina works to transform our community to make it easier for people to get help and build fulfilling, healthy lives.
To provide a continuum of musical training for young children through senior adults, produce exceptional choral performances and preserve the art of choral music for the enrichment and enjoyment of the greater akron community.
The mission of akron summit community action, inc. is to reduce poverty and promote self-sufficiency. the broad objectives of the agency are: to provide quality services to low-income individuals and families; to advocate for a…
Akron roundtable brings speakers to akron who inform, educate and stimulate listeners on topics of importance to the region, the country and the world.
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…
The organization's primary purpose is to broaden the network of caring organizations in the community, to influence social norms that contribute to the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS and to increase advocacy for social services for…
Our mission is to empower children and adults with disabilities and (continued on schedule o) their families to achieve their greatest potential through holistic and family-focused services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Weathervane Community Playhouse and the most unlike its peers is Good Samaritan Hunger Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 57 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Akron Musical Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds ART RESOURCES TRANSFORMATIONS ↗
- Who funds AXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION INC DBA AKRON CIVIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds WEATHERVANE COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNITED DISABILITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN M FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AKRON ZOOLOGICAL PARK ↗
- Who funds VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUMILITY OF MARY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Art Sparks ↗
- Who funds SOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY GALLOP INC ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA VALLEY YOUTH BALLET ↗
- Who funds GREAT TRAIL COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Lehner Family Foundation · Gar Foundation · Synthomer 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 Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable 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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