The Barberton Community Foundation
Barberton, OH · EIN 34-1846432. Reported 87 grants totalling $5,036,439 to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Barberton Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a support organization for one specific institution (NTEE T11).
- How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 49% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 69% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,502 and the largest $2,168,400. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barberton Public Schools | Barberton, OH | $2,472,236 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Barberton Community Development Corporation | Barberton, OH | $811,148 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| City of Barberton | Barberton, OH | $494,559 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bounce Innovation Hub | Akron, OH | $155,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Greater Akron Chamber of Commerce | Akron, OH | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Magical Theatre Company | Barberton, OH | $112,392 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Victim Assistance Program Inc | Akron, OH | $83,800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Summit County Inc | Akron, OH | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Axess Family Services Inc | Ravenna, OH | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Trailhead Community Health Fund of Greater Akron | Akron, OH | $47,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Carestar Community Services | Cincinnati, OH | $43,744 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Stewarts Caring Place | Fairlawn, OH | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United Way of Summit and Medina | Akron, OH | $35,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Child Guidance & Family Solutions | Akron, OH | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Barberton Area Community Ministries | Barberton, OH | $34,971 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Akron Ohio | Akron, OH | $29,999 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Barberton Little League Inc | Barberton, OH | $29,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank | Akron, OH | $28,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Embracing Futures Inc | Akron, OH | $28,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Pastoral Counseling Service of Summit County | Akron, OH | $28,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tri County Jobs for Ohios Graduates | Akron, OH | $26,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Coleman Professional Services Inc | Kent, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Humane Society of Summit County | Twinsburg, OH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Limitless Ambition Inc | Akron, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority | Akron, OH | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ben Curtis Family Foundation | Kent, OH | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kave Coffee Bar LLC | Barberton, OH | $15,088 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| White Rabbit Galleries | Barberton, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Vantage Aging | Akron, OH | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Barberton Public Library | Barberton, OH | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Diocesan Council Society of St Vincent De Paul Cleveland Diocese | Cleveland, OH | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Artsnow | Akron, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Stow, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cuyahoga Valley Countryside Conservancy | Cuyahoga Fls, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Girl Scouts of North East Ohio | Macedonia, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Girls on the Run Northeast Ohio | Brecksville, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Interval Brotherhood Homes Corporation | Coventry Twp, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Inventors Hall of Fame Inc | North Canton, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greenleaf Family Center | Akron, OH | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Junior Achievement of North Central Ohio | Canton, OH | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater Akron Musical Association Inc Sponsor for Akron Symphony Orc | Akron, OH | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Barberton Community Health Clinic | Barberton, OH | $5,502 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
21 of 42 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Barberton Community Development Corporation
DOWNTOWN REHABILITATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - City of Barberton
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, PARKS AND RECREATION - Barberton Public Schools
ATHLETICS, EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, READING, TUTORING - Main Street Barberton Inc
OPERATING SUPPORT, DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION - Magical Theatre Company
PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAMS FOR BARBERTON STUDENTS - Victim Assistance Program Inc
VICTIM ADVOCACY FOR BARBERTON RESIDENTS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 of 42 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | $2,510,090 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 25 | $916,562 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 21 | $826,097 | $12,000 |
| 2024 | 24 | $783,690 | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Ohio.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Barberton Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 28 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 460 W Paige Ave, Barberton, OH, 44203.
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