How much did THE RC MUSSON AND KATHARINE MUSSON grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of THE RC MUSSON AND KATHARINE MUSSON’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

outreacheducationalprogrammingcarestudenteducationspecial

2021

programming

2022

youthspecialshelter programming

2023

reentryyouthprogrammingspecialgirlsnortheastcare

2024

caringplacecaregirlsnortheast

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k50 grants · $96k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON$50,000
HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES$5,000
OPEN M$3,500
AXXESS POINTE$3,000
MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY$3,000
AKRON PUBLIC SCHOOLS$3,000
KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL$3,000
UNITED DISABILITY SERVICES$3,000
DR BOB'S HOME$2,500
AKRON ZOO$2,500
STEWART'S CARING PLACE$2,500
ACCESS INC$2,500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY$2,500
THE SUMMIT FM$2,500
AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOOD BANK$2,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$725k · 63 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

63 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$725k

$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+147%

Still filing today

41%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther

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

KA
KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL
5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +42%
MT
MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY
5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +16%
SH
STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC
3× · 2020–2022 · $14k · revenue +38%

Funded once

IS
INTERNATIONAL SOP BOX DERBY
one grant, 2021 · $15k
GA
GREATER AKRON AMENITIES INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +212010%
AP
AKRON PUBLIC SCHOOLS INNES COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 Community Service Center &

To improve the quality of life for the citizens of summit county through economic self-reliance.

Human Services

Akron Woman's City Club

The organization provides women the opportunity to meet and have an open forum for the presentation and discussion of any subjects pertaining to education and civic and philanthropic improvement of the community. it offers activities to…

Arts & Culture

Downtown Akron Partnership

Promote and build a vibrant and valuable downtown akron.

Community Improvement

Akron Revitalization Committee Inc

Community Improvement

Akron Children's Hospital Foundation

Akron children's hospital foundation is organized exclusively for the benefit of children's hospital medical center of akron. its purpose is to solicit gifts from donors.

Health

Akron Summit Community Action Inc

To reduce poverty and promote self-sufficiency.

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The University of Akron Foundation

To manage property, investments and certain expenditures for the benefit of the university of akron.

Education

Leadership Akron

The mission of leadership akron is to inspire, strengthen, and empower leaders.

Education

Emerge Ministries Inc

Emerge counseling ministries is a counseling center based in akron, ohio providing compassionate, biblically-based, and spirit-empowered mental health care. our team of licensed psychologists, counselors, and social workers combine…

Human Services

Akron Childrens Museum

Akron children's museum is a gathering place for children and families, where play inspires exploration, discovery, and problem solving. acm envisions a community shaped by lifelong learners, who provide innovative leadership inspired by…

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Akron Parks Collaborative

To engage the akron, ohio community around the creation and sustainability of vibrant neighboorhood parks throughout the city. we support communities in citizen-led design and decision making on neighborhood park improvements.

Recreation & Sports

Love Akron Inc

We are a christian-based organization seeking to influence positive change by connecting, convening, and collaborating with change-makers to make a collective impact through mental health, cultural humility, youth, and faith based programs.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family & Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Akron Art Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/40

the rest of the field

11%

1,473/13,022

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.

05the grantee network

38 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/38

Grantees still filing

31/38

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$602,300Human Services$66,445Arts & Culture$42,000Health$38,000Environment$19,000Recreation & Sports$7,500Youth Development$7,500

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.

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.

Akron Community FoundationOH61.6× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · The Welty Family Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Gar Foundation · United Way of Summit and Medina · Lehner Family 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 organisation THE RC MUSSON AND KATHARINE MUSSON 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HERE'S HOPE HORSE FARM.

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Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 432044673 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HERE'S HOPE HORSE FARM, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to The Rc Musson and Katharine Musson through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE RC MUSSON AND KATHARINE MUSSON

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

38 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Rc Musson and Katharine Musson?

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THE RC MUSSON AND KATHARINE MUSSON

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

38 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Rc Musson and Katharine Musson?

More from the funding graph