· Private foundation
W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMBRACING FUTURES INC | $4,000 |
| GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC | $3,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN EDUCATIONAL TV OHIO | $3,000 |
| PEGASUS FARM | $2,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER | $2,000 |
| OPEN M FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER | $2,000 |
| AXESS FAMILY SERVICES | $1,500 |
| GOOD NEIGHBORS INC | $1,500 |
| VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $1,500 |
| CASA BOARD VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION INC | $1,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| BROKEN CHAINS JAIL & PRISON MINISTRY | $1,000 |
| AKRON HISTORY CENTER | $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 (FY21–25, $32k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
70 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 12 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK4× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue +25%
- EFEMBRACING FUTURES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +52%
- SCSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- VFVINE FELLOWSHIP CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $10k
- PFPEGASUS FARM TAKE FLIGHTone grant, 2021 · $3k
- JBJULIE BILLIART SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $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.
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…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
To promote business in the tri-county area
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
The ohio district 5 area agency on aging, inc. provides leadership, collaboration, coordination and services to older adults, people with disabilities, their caregivers and resource networks that support individual choice, independence and…
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
To help individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional stability.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Akron Community Service Center & Urban League Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wesley Temple Foundation. 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 39 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
78 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. 78 of the 105 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 AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds THE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Broken Chains Jail & Prison Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds Akron History Center ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS FARM ↗
- Who funds VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON ZOOLOGICAL PARK ↗
- Who funds SOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER AKRON ↗
- Who funds AXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds DR BOB'S HOME ↗
- Who funds OPEN M FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTERVAL BROTHERHOOD HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA BOARD VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds THE GRIEFCARE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST GLANCE STUDENT CENTER 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: Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · Akron Community Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · United Way of Summit and Medina · Gar Foundation · Synthomer Foundation Inc
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 W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial 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.
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