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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.

$2.0M
Revenue FY2025
4
Funders on record
$21k
Grants received
$26M
Net assets
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve5.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($514k) Expenses 100 ($402k) Net assets 100 ($2.6M)2019 Revenue 2409 ($12M) Expenses 78 ($314k) Net assets 576 ($15M)2020 Revenue 185 ($949k) Expenses 181 ($730k) Net assets 580 ($15M)2021 Revenue 253 ($1.3M) Expenses 119 ($477k) Net assets 701 ($18M)2022 Revenue 1119 ($5.8M) Expenses 157 ($634k) Net assets 775 ($20M)2023 Revenue 262 ($1.3M) Expenses 379 ($1.5M) Net assets 824 ($21M)2024 Revenue 617 ($3.2M) Expenses 366 ($1.5M) Net assets 925 ($24M)2025 Revenue 391 ($2.0M) Expenses 423 ($1.7M) Net assets 982 ($26M)
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Revenue (391)Expenses (423)Net assets (982)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,048 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$112k
17
$12M
19
$219k
20
$824k
21
$5.1M
22
$179k
23
$1.7M
24
$311k
25
5.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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.

32%
largest funder
90%
top three
~4
effective funders

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.

WI
OH

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

22
23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DIRECTION HOME AKRON CANTON FOUNDATION: 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 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 4funders 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