· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -4% since the first grant, against -14% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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: Price-Downey-Buckland Foundation · The Twenty First Century Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Norwalk Area United Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norwalk Area United Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
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