Ohio · Nonprofit
AKRON PARKS COLLABORATIVE
AKRON PARKS COLLABORATIVE (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,750 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($58,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
AKRON PARKS COLLABORATIVE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,485 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,485 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Gar Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Lehner Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Howland Memorial Fundlocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 21% · 2023 5% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of AKRON PARKS COLLABORATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $12k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AKRON PARKS COLLABORATIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AKRON PARKS COLLABORATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AKRON PARKS COLLABORATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 73% · 2022 50% · 2023 90% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
54% of AKRON PARKS COLLABORATIVE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $50k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Gar Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 81 organizations that share your funders · funds 102 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lehner Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchOH · backs 63 organizations that share your funders · funds 75 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Howland Memorial Fundlocalportfolio matchOH · funds 23 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Welty Family Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 87 organizations that share your funders · funds 109 organizations near you
- Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akronportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Michelson Foundation Charitable Trust (C/O Richard Michelson Jr)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Marks Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas & Lisa Mandel Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bruce & Erica Greer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Recreation and Park Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akronportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitableshared funderslocalOH · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like AKRON PARKS COLLABORATIVE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AKRON PARKS COLLABORATIVE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AKRON PARKS COLLABORATIVE?
- AKRON PARKS COLLABORATIVE (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,750 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($58,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AKRON PARKS COLLABORATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $107,750 in grants to AKRON PARKS COLLABORATIVE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AKRON PARKS COLLABORATIVE?
- AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $58,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AKRON PARKS COLLABORATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 7funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing