· Public charity
Norwalk Area United Fund
To improve the quality of life in the community by being involved with local agencies and organizations so as to assess area issues, concerns and needs, raising money to fund essential local programs, ensuring our donors gifts are well spent and kept local.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $293,666 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $309,166 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $204k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $75,378 |
| SERVICES FOR AGING | $28,000 |
| CANCER SERVICES | $25,000 |
| SIMON ACTS | $24,130 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| LIFEWISE ACADEMY | $17,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,500 |
| CLOTHING BANK | $16,000 |
| KINDERCASA | $12,500 |
| KIDNEY FOUNDATION | $12,329 |
| REACH OUR YOUTH | $11,413 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NORTH CENTRAL | $10,151 |
| RAILS TO TRAILS | $10,000 |
| ARTISTS' OPEN STUDIO | $9,140 |
| CAC HOMELESS SHELTER | $5,625 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -4% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LILIFEWISE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +184%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2023–2025 · $31k · revenue +22%
- FRFIRELANDS RAILS TO TRAILS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $28k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- TNTHE NEW LONDON ALLIANCE CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $14k
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION OF ERIE HURON & RICHLAND COUNTIES INCone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -29%
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2021 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Service to end stage renal patients
The corporation owns and operates a 49 unit hud subsidized low income elderly housing
Public library services
To provide services under Title II of The Older American Citizens Act of 1965
To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.
The mission of oneida healthcare corporation is to respond to the shortage of decent, safe and sanitary healthcare facilities by planning, constructing, owning, and financing healthcare facilities for the use of oneida health.
The area office on aging of northwestern ohio, inc. promotes the health, well-being and safety of older adults, persons with disabilities and family caregivers to foster independence.
To preserve and enhance the health-care services available within our region by raising funds for capital building projects, technology, and to improve and expand health-care facilities to better serve residents.
Hospice of northwest ohio provides specialized medical emotional and spiritual care to people of all ages - and their families - living with any end-stage illness in northwest ohio and southeast michigan
Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of northeast ohio residents by providing comprehensive and excellent health care services in a sensitive and caring environment.
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
Volunteer fire department
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Clothing Bank of Norwalk Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Norwalk Childcare Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SERVICES FOR AGING INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER-TITUS MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CLOTHING BANK OF NORWALK OHIO ↗
- Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS RAILS TO TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS OPEN STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION OF ERIE HURON & RICHLAND COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK CHILDCARE CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Price-Downey-Buckland Foundation · The Twenty First Century Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Norwalk Area United Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.