· Private foundation
The Vana Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY | $12,500 |
| GIFT OF ADOPTION | $5,000 |
| ORMACO INC | $5,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| HIGHLAND FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| HIRAM FUND - HIRAM COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT | $2,500 |
| CAROLINA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF PORTAGE COUNTY | $1,500 |
| DEYARMIN FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| OPEN ARMS ADOPTION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +57% since the first grant, against -61% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- PSPlayhouse Square Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +35%
- MTMAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +41%
- OIORMACO INC2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TSTALLMADGE SCHOOLS OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- TFTALLMADGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -62%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $750
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.
The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…
Akron children's hospital foundation is organized exclusively for the benefit of children's hospital medical center of akron ("chmca"). its purpose is to solicit gifts from donors to further the mission of chmca.
To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
To welcome all to our music and arts community to learn, create, celebrate and heal.
To honor the legacy of the great american playwright, arthur miller, and his new york city public school education, the arthur miller foundation (the "foundation") increases equitable access to quality theater education for public school…
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Support Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 42 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 54 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 Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DEYARMIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORMACO INC ↗
- Who funds THE OAK CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TALLMADGE SCHOOLS OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS ADOPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUDSON MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · Tuscora Park Health & Wellness Foundation · Gar Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Mg O'Neil Foundation · The Maynard Family Foundation · The Rc Musson and Katharine Musson Charitable Foundation · Maynard Family Foundation · Jackie & Bruce Davey Family Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith 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 Vana 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.
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.