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SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO
SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO (Ohio) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $992,750 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($607,619). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO's revenue fell 25% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture 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 funderslocal
- Howland Memorial Fundportfolio match
- General Society of Colonial Warsportfolio match
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.
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 14% · 2019 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $80k → $94k.
2 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO’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
SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 49% · 2019 70% · 2020 24% · 2021 59% · 2022 65% · 2023 80% — growing more concentrated.
“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
61% of SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
61% of SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO'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 $385k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $608k 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.
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 23 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Gar Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 93 organizations that share your funders · funds 102 organizations near you
- Howland Memorial Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- General Society of Colonial Warsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnatiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Historical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio History Connectionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Summit and Medinashared funderslocalOH · backs 86 organizations that share your funders · funds 142 organizations near you
- The Barberton Community Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 48 organizations near you
- The Margaret Clark Morgan Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · funds 43 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 SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO?
- SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO (Ohio) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $992,750 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($607,619). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $992,750 in grants to SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO?
- AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $607,619 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 23funders 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