Ohio · Public charity
Butler County United Way
Connect resources to important community needs. The organization focuses on the most important human service needs facing the community and uses a variety of methods to communicate with community members in order to priortize the issues and determine the proper solutions to these problems whether this means grant writing, fundraising, or…
- $788k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $700k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $18,120
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,488
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Butler County United Way funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $700k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $725k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $663k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $614k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $640k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $677k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $670k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $817k | 23% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shared Harvest Foodbank Inc | $554,683 | 9 | 1% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Butler County Inc | $502,049 | 9 | 16% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Hamilton Ohio | $406,571 | 9 | 15% |
| Young Women's Christian Association of Hamilton Ohio Inc | $386,002 | 9 | 10% |
| Every Child Succeeds | $368,693 | 9 | 1% |
| Parachute Special Advocate for Children of Butler County | $357,363 | 9 | 12% |
| United States Catholic Conference | $343,941 | 8 | n/a |
| Alcoholism Council of Butler County | $319,836 | 9 | 5% |
| Great Miami Valley YMCA | $285,884 | 9 | 0% |
| Hamilton Living Water Ministry Inc | $256,367 | 9 | 39% |
Show all 53 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Butler County United Way supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Hamilton Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · The Northern Cincinnai Foundation · Middletown Community Foundation · First Financial Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Molyneaux Foundation 1045000246 · McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital Endowment Fund · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Hatton Foundation
How this is measured
About Butler County United Way
- How much does Butler County United Way give?
- Butler County United Way reported 32 itemized grants totaling $700,260, out of $787,629 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Butler County United Way fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Youth Development (19%), Health (16%).
- Who are Butler County United Way's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Shared Harvest Foodbank Inc ($555k), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Butler County Inc ($502k), Boys & Girls Club of Hamilton Ohio ($407k).
- Does Butler County United Way fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Butler County United Way?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hamilton Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Cincinnati, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation.
- Where is Butler County United Way based?
- Butler County United Way is based in OH.
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