· Private foundation
The Rc Musson and Katharine Musson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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: 67% of THE RC MUSSON AND KATHARINE MUSSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’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 · FY2024
- Under $10k50 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | $50,000 |
| HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| OPEN M | $3,500 |
| KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL | $3,000 |
| AKRON PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
| UNITED DISABILITY SERVICES | $3,000 |
| MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| STEWART'S CARING PLACE | $2,500 |
| ACCESS INC | $2,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,500 |
| SOUTH STREET MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| DR BOB'S HOME | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $82k) 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.
62 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 10 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- KAKEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +24%
- MTMAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +41%
- SHSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC3× · 2020–2022 · $14k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- ISINTERNATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -34%
- GAGREATER AKRON AMENITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +115%
- APAKRON PUBLIC SCHOOLS INNES COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2020 · $3k
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…
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
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…
To help people discover a lifestyle of meaning joy and fulfillment through treatment and training. emerge ministries inc. is devoted to serving our clients. this service encompasses a biblically based mental health center with…
We create connections, empowering everyone in the autism community with the resources needed to live fully.
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…
We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.
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…
To improve the quality of life for the citizens of summit county, particularly african americans, by advocating and facilitating programs that are economically and educationally transformational, impacting their lives and the lives of…
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.
Akron roundtable brings speakers to akron who inform, educate and stimulate listeners on topics of importance to the region, the country and the world.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Support 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.
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 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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 88 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 KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds UNITED DISABILITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY INC ↗
- Who funds MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds DR BOB'S HOME ↗
- Who funds CASA BOARD VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HERE'S HOPE HORSE FARM ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRIEFCARE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON INNER CITY SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of Greater Summit Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohio ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
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 · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · The Welty Family Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · Lehner Family Foundation · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Gar Foundation · Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr
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 Rc Musson and Katharine Musson Charitable 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.