· Public charity
The Portage Foundation
THE PORTAGE FOUNDATION inspires, impacts, and engages the portage county community by ensuring pathways of enduring support to meet local needs.
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.
The 2 grants below total $20,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $135,789 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $115,789 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AURORA COMMUNITY RELIEF PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| TREE CITY CATS | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–23, $57k) 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.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- ACAURORA COMMUNITY RELIEF PROGRAM2× · 2023–2024 · $110k
- ASAURORA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $59k · revenue +32%
- FCFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC2× · 2021–2022 · $23k · revenue -45%
Funded once
- VCVARIOUS COMMUNITY ORGone grant, 2019 · $110k
- VCVARIOUS COMM ORGANone grant, 2017 · $93k
- VCVARIOUS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONSone grant, 2020 · $79k
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 end dog and cat overpopulation in the greater toledo area by offering high-quality, affordable spay/neuter and promoting responsible pet care.
We rescue orphaned and abandoned neonatal kittens.
Provide pet food and medical services to pets
The goal is to promote all types of agriculture in the county and surrounding areas during the year and finalizing with the seven day fair.
To establish a forum for community engagement and educational outreach through collaboration with emerging and established artists and the creation, production and presentation of a diverse array of theatre, music, dance, and exhibitions…
Raise funds to support ukraine
To reduce the number of free-roaming cats in bowling green and wood county, ohio through our trap, neuter, return (tnr) program, as well as advocate for humane protocols in managing homeless cat populations that serve the best interest of…
Enhance City of Fairview Park OH
Here at north canton cares pantry, we are driven by a single goal; to do our part in helping provide food to individuals and families who have a need in north canton, ohio. we strive to build relationships with our guests and do all we can…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeast Ohio Medical University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tree City Cats. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 24 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 AURORA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT A NEW DAY A NEW BEGINNING ↗
- Who funds CRESTWOOD 4CS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of Greater Summit Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohio ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET RAVENNA INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ROBINSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds TREE CITY CATS ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAYMAKER FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
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: The Cleveland Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Portage 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.
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.