Ohio · Nonprofit
KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL
KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL (Ohio) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $798,498 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($190,538). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $840k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $798k
- Net assets
- $799k
What Keep Akron Beautiful does
Mission
Keep Akron Beautiful improves the quality of life for city of akron, oh residents through the beautification of the city and through responsible environmental management.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Your support of Keep Akron Beautiful has helped us continue to serve the akron community with our mission of improving akron's quality of life through beautification and responsible environmental management. Keep Akron Beautiful brings out the best in what akron has to offer for a lasting, positive impact on our region. It has been Keep Akron Beautiful's pleasure to serve you this year through: removing akron's litter - kab has been working very hard to remove litter on the streets of akron. 18,035 volunteers spent time removing 60.6 tons of trash and 85 tires during clean up akron month-april. Over 39 tons of litter were removed from city streets, expressways, parks, and roadsides. 21 illegal dumps were remediated, and 35 graffiti sites were abated. People become more disobedient in environments plagued by litter and graffiti; research has shown. This past year, we worked closely with the akron police department to overlay our litter map and their crime maps. It is not surprising that the two match up perfectly- where there is litter in our city, there is crime. However, we have been focusing our efforts on removing litter in the worst areas of our city. When the litter is…
$623,768 spent$348,422 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $623,768.
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 2022 to 2023, from $600k to $838k (+40%).
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: 2017 49% · 2018 52% · 2019 48% · 2020 10% · 2021 31% · 2022 13% · 2023 23% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Carol Haines
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $58k → $144k.
4 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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
KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 37% · 2019 59% · 2020 21% · 2021 39% · 2022 27% · 2023 22% — 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.
How long its funders stay
71% of KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $233k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 23 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL: 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 KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL?
- KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL (Ohio) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $798,498 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($190,538). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $798,498 in grants to KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL?
- AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $190,538 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 33 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