Ohio · Nonprofit
DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION
DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,080 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,820). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $26M
What Direction Home Akron Canton Foundation does
Mission
The direction home foundation seeks to transform the experience of aging in portage, stark, summit & wayne counties. Through investment in programs and outreach activities direction home impacts aging with the vision to "optimize aging through resource creation & innovation".
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Care coordination sponsorship - our foundation was born from the initial campaign "care for a lifetime." for over 25 years this employee campaign has raised money directly from direction home staff to fund the service needs of older adults who do not meet strict qualifications for public assistance programs but are unable to afford care at home for themselves. Thanks to the generosity of our staff, we were able to provide community members in summit, stark, wayne, and portage counties with with essential services that allowed them to remain in the community. In fy25 we served 41 individuals, spending a total of $193,775; $23,796 in portage county, $109,312 in summit county, $24,521 in wayne county, and $36,146 in stark county.
$193,775 spent12% of program spendingEducation and outreach activities - we educate and advocate for choice, control, and quality care in aging. Each year, we reach over 35,000 individuals with information on health, caregiving, long-term care and community resources. We promote age-friendly communities via surveys, planning, and policy work, with 25 accredited businesses and 3 completed needs assessments across our four counties. Our speaker's bureau participates in hundreds of events, promoting access to free resources. We sponsor nearly 25 community events annually and host three signature events: an annual conference attended by over 150 professionals, a senior prom as part of the aging is an artform program that brings together older adults through various forms of art and a hall of fame awards ceremony honoring older adults and caregivers. Additionally, we fund a $5,000 annual scholarship to support future leaders in aging services.
$273,446 spent18% of program spendingRental of office building to affiliated nonprofit organization - direction home's headquarters and training center are an asset of the direction home foundation. In 2025 the training center hosted 30 training and professional development classes for 596 attendees. We were able to host 1 evidence-based health and wellness class for 17 older adult attendees and plan to host more. The conference center is available for community organizations and providers serving older adults and people with disabilities.
$1,093,302 spent$1,115,148 earned by the program70% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,560,523.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $24M to $30M (+24%).
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.
9% of DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Abigail M Morgan
President & CEO
Board chair
Lee S Walko
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $2k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $62k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging). These are real filings, and they are not money DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION’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
DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 58% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
62% of DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is 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.
Against its field
DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION?
- DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,080 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,820). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $21,080 in grants to DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing