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The Stephen a Comunale Jr Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 93% of THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR 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 $10k11 grants · $14k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $300,392 |
| PROJECT OUTRUN | $3,000 |
| STEWART'S CARING PLACE | $3,000 |
| SSP HOPE MINISTRIES | $1,750 |
| CARSON STRONG FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| ASC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $1,500 |
| AKRON ROTARY CLUB | $1,250 |
| THE NORTH FOUNDATION | $500 |
| AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $350 |
| ONE OF A KIND PET RESCUE INC | $300 |
| CARSON HIGGINS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $250 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $150 |
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 (FY19–24, $3k) 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 +66% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- FCFALLS CANCER CLUB3× · 2019–2023 · $57k · revenue +144% · 46% of their budget
- ACAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2022 · $41k · revenue +66%
- SCSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY8× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- TLTHE LITTLEST HEROES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +62%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -18%
- AHARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL INCone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Raise money to support families and children suffering from childhood cancer.
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
Raise awareness, fund research grants to find treatments and cure childhood cancer
Conquer cancer funds research for every type of cancer to benefit every patient, everywhere. working in collaboration with a global network of top scientists and clinicians, and leading advocacy and research organizations, conquer cancer…
Our mission is to deliver state-of-the-art cancer care to patients in their communities through clinical trials. this allows individuals to remain in their won neighborhoods, while receiving the latest and best in cancer screenings,…
Thrivewell cancer foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for cancer by funding cancer research, providing patient support, and offering programs to improve the quality of life for patients and their families.
Cog research foundation, llc is a california 501(c)(3) entity founded in 2024 and designed to become the federal grantee organization for the children's oncology group (cog). the cog, a member of the national cancer institute (nci)…
Friends of kids with cancer is devoted to enriching the daily lives of children undergoing treatment for, and survivors of, cancer and blood-related diseases....(see schedule o)our mission is to be an advocate for these special kids…
Provide monetary or financial aid exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes and to solicit, receive, maintain and disburse funds for these purposes and for the betterment of children.
To reduce the impact of cancer on wyoming residents diagnosed with cancer by providing non-medical, charitable financial assistance and by providing free education and screening opportunities to residents not diagnosed with cancer.
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Outrun Inc and the most unlike its peers is Life Is Good No Matter What. 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 25 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 45 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 FALLS CANCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLEST HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT OUTRUN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARSON STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COPLEY-FAIRLAWN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ED BEAR INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLINSCARESCURECANCER CORP ↗
- Who funds RMH OF AKRONINC ↗
- Who funds GREAT TRAIL COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ONE OF A KIND PET RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA ↗
- Who funds VICTORY GALLOP INC ↗
- Who funds TALLMADGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Life Is Good No Matter What ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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: Akron Community Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Lehner Family Foundation · Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr · The Welty Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Marks Family Foundation · H E Graves Jr Family Foundation Inc · Jackie & Bruce Davey Family Foundation · The Johnson-Kazar Charitable Foundation Inc · Fw Albrecht Family Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt 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 Stephen a Comunale Jr 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.
- 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.
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