· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY | $12,500 |
| ORMACO INC | $5,000 |
| GIFT OF ADOPTION | $5,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| HIGHLAND FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| HIRAM FUND - HIRAM COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT | $2,500 |
| DEYARMIN FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| CAROLINA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF PORTAGE COUNTY | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| ST MARY'S CHURCH | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against -61% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPlayhouse Square Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +35%
- MTMAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +41%
- TOTHE OAK CLINIC5× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue ×20
Funded once
- TSTALLMADGE SCHOOLS OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- TFTALLMADGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -62%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $750
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 THE OAK CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ORMACO INC ↗
- 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Vana Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vana Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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