· Private foundation
The Michelson Foundation Charitable Trust (C/O Richard Michelson Jr)
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of THE MICHELSON FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST (C/O RICHARD MICHELSON JR)’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT COUNTY OHIO | $10,000 |
| CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $1,000 |
| AKRON ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES | $1,000 |
| AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AKRON ZOOLOGICAL PARK | $500 |
| CHILDRENS CONCERT SOCIETY | $500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST OHIO | $500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF AKRON | $500 |
| BLUECOATS INCORPORATED | $500 |
| WALSH JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $500 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AKRON INC | $500 |
| DENNY SHUTE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $4k) 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 +80% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 7 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
- CVCUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +133%
- UWUNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC5× · 2017–2022 · $10k · revenue +77%
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- WRWESTERN RESERVE GIRL SCOUTone grant, 2022 · $500
- WRWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +27%
- LALEADERSHIP AKRONone grant, 2018 · $250 · revenue -12%
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…
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,…
To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.
Akron children's hospital foundation is organized exclusively for the benefit of children's hospital medical center of akron ("chmca"). its purpose is to solicit gifts from donors to further the mission of chmca.
The mission of the akron zoological foundation, inc. is to directly benefit and provide support for programs, projects and to further the mission of the akron zoological park in conservation, education and serving the community.
To be a gathering place for children and families, where play inspires exploration, discovery, and problem solving.
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
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 promote business in the tri-county area
Akron roundtable brings speakers to akron who inform, educate and stimulate listeners on topics of importance to the region, the country and the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Akron Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Children's Family Care Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 27 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 CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AKRON ZOOLOGICAL PARK ↗
- Who funds Childrens Concert Society ↗
- Who funds KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds BLUECOATS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds RMH OF AKRONINC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FAMILY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP AKRON ↗
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 · Gar Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Akron Community Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · The Marks Family Foundation · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Baird 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 Michelson Foundation Charitable Trust (C/O Richard Michelson Jr) 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.