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W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial at a glance

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W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$61k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$64kReligion$51kArts & Culture$37kHuman Services$29kFood & Nutrition$26kYouth Development$20kHousing & Shelter$14kCrime & Legal$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMBRACING FUTURES INC$4,000
NORTHEASTERN EDUCATIONAL TV OHIO$3,000
GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC$3,000
BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER$2,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$2,000
SAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER$2,000
OPEN M FOUNDATION$2,000
PEGASUS FARM$2,000
VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM$1,500
GOOD NEIGHBORS INC$1,500
AXESS FAMILY SERVICES$1,500
UNITED DISABILITY SERVICES INC$1,000
WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
LOVE AKRON INC$1,000
FOREVER R CHILDREN$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500 → 14%FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1k → 12%FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500 → 14%COMMUNITY OUTREACH RESOURCES EXCHANGE: $1k → 13%COMMUNITY OUTREACH RESOURCES EXCHANGE: $500 → 13%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $500 → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500 → 14%CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $1k → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $1k → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $1k → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $500 → 13%AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $1k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $2k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $1k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF AKRON OHIO: $500 → 13%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF AKRON OHIO: $500 → 13%SOUTH STREET MINISTRIES: $1k → 13%GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $3k → 13%GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $2k → 13%GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $2k → 13%GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $1k → 13%PREGNANCY SOLUTIONS & SERVICES INC: $1k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC: $500 → 13%PREGNANCY SOLUTIONS & SERVICES INC: $500 → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC: $500 → 13%PREGNANCY SOLUTIONS & SERVICES INC: $500 → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC: $500 → 13%PREGNANCY SOLUTIONS & SERVICES INC: $500 → 13%BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER: $2k → 13%BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER: $1k → 13%BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER: $1k → 13%BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

OH
CA
CO
VA
DC
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$259k · 70 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
23

Total granted

$259k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+27%

Still filing today

79%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentReligionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AR
    AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK
    4× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue +25%
  • EF
    EMBRACING FUTURES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +52%
  • SC
    STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • VF
    VINE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • PF
    PEGASUS FARM TAKE FLIGHT
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • JB
    JULIE BILLIART SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Akron Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
2
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
3
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
4
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

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…

Philanthropy
5
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

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…

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6
Greater Akron Chamber

To promote business in the tri-county area

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7
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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8
Ohio District 5 Area Agency On Aging Inc

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…

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9
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
10
Ohio Hills Health Services

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…

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11
Jewish Family Services

To help individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional stability.

Human Services
12
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Akron Community Service Center & Urban League Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 105 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/78
Grantees still filing
40/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $15,000 · OtherHAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES INCORPORATEDFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $13,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHVINE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherVINE FELLOWSHIP CHURCHTHE SALVATION ARMY: $8,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYACCESS INC: $6,000 · OtherGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $4,800 · OtherTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,500 · OtherPEGASUS FARM: $6,000 · OtherSAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER: $5,000 · Other+47 more: $68,300 · Other+47 moreGRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGRACE HOUSE AKRO…HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $6,000 · Human ServicesHOPE AND HEALING…VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $5,650 · Human ServicesVICTIM ASSISTANC…SOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesSOUTH STREET MNI…FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & COMMUNI…CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $3,700 · Human ServicesCHILD GUIDANCE &…PREGNANCY SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesPREGNANCY SOLUTI…FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 · Human Services+4 more: $4,500 · Human Services+4 moreEMBRACING FUTURES INC: $13,000 · HealthEMBRACING FUTURE…STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $7,500 · HealthSTEWART'S CARING…AUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER AKRON: $4,500 · HealthAUTISM SOCIETY O…AXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC: $4,000 · HealthAXESS FAMILY SER…OhioGuidestone: $3,000 · HealthOhioGuidestoneDR BOB'S HOME: $3,000 · HealthDR BOB'S HOMERAPE CRISIS CENTER: $3,000 · HealthRAPE CRISIS CENT…INTERVAL BROTHERHOOD HOMES INC: $3,000 · HealthINTERVAL BROTHER…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $2,000 · Health+2 more: $1,500 · HealthAkron History Center: $6,000 · Arts & CultureAkron Histor…TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTUESDAY MUSI…WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN RESE…The Musical Arts Association: $3,750 · Arts & CultureThe Musical …NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INV…Summit Choral Society Inc: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSummit Chora…CUYAHOGA VALLEY PRESERVATION AND SCENIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCUYAHOGA VAL…STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $13,500 · Food & NutritionGOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTER: $1,000 · Food & NutritionBroken Chains Jail & Prison Ministry Inc: $6,000 · ReligionOPEN M FOUNDATION: $3,000 · ReligionLOVE AKRON INC: $1,000 · ReligionWesley Temple Foundation: $1,000 · ReligionGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST GLANCE STUDENT CENTER INC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentINTERNATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY INC: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run of Greater Summit Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohio: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$143,600Human Services$45,350Health$44,500Arts & Culture$33,250Food & Nutrition$14,500Religion$11,000Youth Development$10,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRACING FUTURES INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $7,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBroken Chains Jail & Prison Ministry Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetACCESS INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAkron History Center: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPEGASUS FARM: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $5,650 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER: $5,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $4,800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAKRON ZOOLOGICAL PARK: $4,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER AKRON: $4,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $3,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $3,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDR BOB'S HOME: $3,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOPEN M FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetRAPE CRISIS CENTER: $3,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTERVAL BROTHERHOOD HOMES INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPREGNANCY SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCASA BOARD VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION IN: $2,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GRIEFCARE PLACE INC: $2,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFIRST GLANCE STUDENT CENTER INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHUMILITY OF MARY HOUSING INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID SERVICES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSummit Choral Society Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCUYAHOGA VALLEY PRESERVATION AND SCENIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTruly Reaching You Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY OUTREACH RESOURCES EXCHAN: $1,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF AKRON OHIO: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Charles E and Mabel M…Lloyd L & Louise K Sm…L R Moffitt & L W Mof…The Welty Family Foun…Sisler McFawn Foundat…Glenn R & Alice V Bog…Akron Community Found…Mary S & David C Corb…Lehner Family Foundat…United Way of Summit …Gar FoundationSynthomer Foundation …
Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie MemorialOH135× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 105 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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