· Private foundation
The Patricia & J Harvey Graves Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Pauls Episcopal Church | $6,000 |
| Friends of Metro Parks | $1,000 |
| Dr Bob's Home | $1,000 |
| Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad | $1,000 |
| Bluecoats of Summit County | $1,000 |
| Texas Historic Tree Coalition | $500 |
| Church of the Incarnation | $500 |
| Avant Ministries | $500 |
| South Street Ministries | $500 |
| Grace House Akron | $500 |
| Safety Forces Support Center | $400 |
| Pink Bows Foundation | $400 |
| Soldier's Angels | $400 |
| Akron Garden Club | $400 |
| First Church of God | $300 |
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 (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Patricia & J Harvey Graves Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 81% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- AAAKRON ART MUSEUM5× · 2017–2021 · $7k · revenue +35%
- BIBLUECOATS INC5× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +234%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES5× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- CVCUYAHOGA VALLEY PRESERVATION AND SCENIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -16%
- VOVillage of St Edwardone grant, 2021 · $2k
- ARAkron Ronald McDonald Houseone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.
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 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 enhance the quality of law and justice through community service and to maintain the integrity of the profession.
Goodwill industries of akron, ohio, inc is a not-for-profit corporation that helps individuals prepare for, find, and retain employment. goodwill serves the five-county region of summit, portage, medina, ashland, and richland. goodwill…
The mission of the Akron History Center is to create an enduring long-lasting free museum-quality exhibit about Akrons history that inspires residents educates young people and welcomes visitors to our community.
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…
Amvets' mission is to enhance and safeguard the entitlements for all american veterans who have served honorably and to improve the quality of life for them, their families, and the communities where they live through leadership, advocacy,…
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…
To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.
Land conservation and restoration for public benefit
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Pink Bow Foundation Inc. 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 56 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 11% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 126 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 PRESERVATION AND SCENIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUECOATS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF METRO PARKS ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds EVERY AVENUE ↗
- Who funds THE AKRON GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AKRON ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MEDINA RAPTOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds MUTTS WITH A MISSION ↗
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: Akron Community Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Gar Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · The Richard S and Alita Rogers Family Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · H E Graves Jr Family 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 Patricia & J Harvey Graves 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.