How much does The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable give?

The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable reported 27 grants totaling $295,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Education (13%), Human Services (10%).

Who are The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The University of Akron Foundation ($217k), Greater Akron Musical Association Inc ($183k), The Musical Arts Association ($161k).

Does The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial, L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation, The Welty Family Foundation.

Where is The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable based?

The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable is based in OH.

The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable

The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable at a glance

· Private foundation

The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$296k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$40k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$743kEducation$227kHuman Services$167kHealth$153kFood & Nutrition$122kHousing & Shelter$119kReligion$71kEmployment$35kOther$0

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k18 grants · $76k
$10k–50k9 grants · $220k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION	$40,000
AXESS FAMILY SERVICES	$32,000
HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTE	$30,000
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA	$30,000
GREATER AKRON MUSICAL ASSOCIATION	$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
SUMMIT EDUCATION INITIATIVE	$5,000
GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.7M · 40 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

Still filing today

83%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther

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

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THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $217k · revenue +136%
GA
Greater Akron Musical Association Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $183k · revenue +31%
TM
The Musical Arts Association
6× · 2020–2025 · $161k · revenue +45%

Funded once

SA
SALVATION ARMY - SUMMIT
one grant, 2024 · $13k
MO
Ministry Open M
one grant, 2020 · $8k
AF
APOLLO'S FIRE BAROQUE
one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue -13%

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.

Akron Soul Train

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…

Arts & Culture

Cleveland Museum of Art

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,…

Arts & Culture

Leadership Akron

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.

Education

Akron Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy

United Way of Summit and Medina

United way of summit & medina works to transform our community to make it easier for people to get help and build fulfilling, healthy lives.

Philanthropy

Summit Choral Society Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

Akron Revitalization Committee Inc

Community Improvement

Akron Summit Community Action Inc

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…

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Akron Roundtable

Akron roundtable brings speakers to akron who inform, educate and stimulate listeners on topics of importance to the region, the country and the world.

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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

Akron Aids Collaborative

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…

Human Services

Achievement Centers for Children

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.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Weathervane Community Playhouse; 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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 57 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/43

Grantees still filing

25/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$659,500Other$438,800Human Services$230,000Education$226,000Health$91,800Food & Nutrition$71,500Community Improvement$30,000

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.

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.

Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie MemorialOH72.6× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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