Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Akron, Ohio

74
foundations with an Akron address
$40.8M
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
28
say they accept unsolicited
$5,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 74 foundations that gave an Akron, Ohio address on their tax filing — 70 private foundations and 4 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $40.8 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 28 of them (38%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is an Akron foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 74 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 3 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Akron, Ohio
Firstenergy Foundation$1,375$7.2M$25–$5.3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Berlin Family Foundation Inc$15,000$1.4M$100–$600,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Lehner Family Foundation$5,000$1.2M$250–$150,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Mg O'Neil Foundation$10,000$1.2M$2,000–$130,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Northern Ohio Golf Charities$9,500$1.1M$150–$200,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Gpd Group Employees Foundation Inc$3,500$1M$500–$34,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Milton James Foundation Inc$5,000$973,529$100–$528,211FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Signet Love Inspires Foundation$1,000$947,051$45–$551,940FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Fw Albrecht Family Foundation$5,000$408,950$275–$55,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Throckmorton Foundation$2,750$328,859$500–$193,202FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Paul P Tell Foundation Inc$5,000$304,100$1,200–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
BMD Foundation$2,500$157,000$500–$43,750FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Howland Memorial Fund$50,000$150,000$25,000–$150,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Rc Musson and Katharine Musson$2,000$142,500$500–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Richard M & Yvonne Hamlin Foundation$25,000$130,000$5,000–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Betty V and John M Jacobson Foundation$10,000$119,145$1,000–$21,645FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Henry V and Frances W Christenson Foundation$1,000$78,398$500–$9,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Augusta W & J Belle Bowman Fund$37,500$75,000$30,000–$45,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Rev Dennis & Jewrusha Butts$1,500$47,000$1,000–$4,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Parhiz Educational and Scientific$1,250$38,333$250–$33,333FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Continuum Charitable Foundation$13,770$27,540$540–$27,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Michelson Foundation Charitable$500$24,000$500–$10,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Louis L Manes Foundation$450$20,621$100–$26,001FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Evans Foundation$8,600$19,200$200–$19,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Sanders Foundation$6,000$14,000$2,000–$6,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.