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Ohio Council of Information and Referral Providers Inc

The mission of ohio airs is to provide leadership in advocating to, and collaborating with public and private stakeholders to increase access to quality information and referral services through coordination, education and innovation.

$82k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$663kHealth$264kHuman Services$186kEducation$7k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $72,370, the rows itemized in this filing. The $82,019 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,649 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $59k
$22,470
Median grant
1
States reached
$118k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT & MEDINA$36,185
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND$22,470
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI$8,461
UNITED WAY OF GREATER DAYTON$5,254
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HELPLINE OF DELAWARE & MORROW COUNTY: $10k → 5%FAIRFIELD COUNTY 2-1-1: $41k → 9%LIFELINE INC: $35k → 9%PATHWAYS OF CENTRAL OHIO: $36k → 10%UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT & MEDINA: $145k → 13%UNITED WAY OF GREATER DAYTON: $53k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES 211 CENTRAL OHIO: $72k → 15%MANSFIELDRICHMOND COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $50k → 15%UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $17k → 16%UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $161k → 17%UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO: $175k → 18%FAIRFIELD COUNTY 2-1-1: $6k → 9%LIFELINE INC: $6k → 9%PATHWAYS OF CENTRAL OHIO: $15k → 10%UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT & MEDINA: $40k → 13%UNITED WAY OF GREATER DAYTON: $11k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES 211 CENTRAL OHIO: $9k → 15%MANSFIELDRICHMOND COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $7k → 15%UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $8k → 16%UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $27k → 17%UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO: $13k → 18%HELPLINE OF DELAWARE & MORROW COUNTY: $18k → 9%UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT & MEDINA: $36k → 13%UNITED WAY OF GREATER DAYTON: $5k → 14%UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $22k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 12 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
1

Total granted

$1.1M
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+9%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’23’24
PhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO
    2× · 2021–2023 · $81k · revenue +37%
  • HH
    HELP HOTLINE CRISIS CENTER
    2× · 2021–2023 · $72k · revenue +36%
  • PO
    PATHWAYS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $51k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • AC
    ASHTABULA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY
    one grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue +9%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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2
United Way of Greater Chattanooga

Uniting people and resources in building a stronger, healthier community

Philanthropy
3
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…

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4
Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…

Human Services
5
United Way of Cleveland County Inc

The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.

Philanthropy
6
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
7
United Way of Greater Lima Inc

United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.

—
8
Handson Central Ohio Inc

To align community resources and generate insights that strengthen central ohio.

—
9
Heart of West Michigan United Way

We unite community resources to invest in solutions that reduce poverty in west michigan.

Philanthropy
10
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy
11
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
12
Orange County's United Way

To improve lives in orange county by delivering measurable long-term solutions to complex issues in education, financial stability, and housing. orange county united way (ocuw) is committed to breaking barriers and improving lives for…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is Ashtabula County Community Action Agency. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $220,305 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINAUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $211,250 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELANDUNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO: $188,888 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDOUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $25,885 · PhilanthropyLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO: $80,912 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL O…HELP HOTLINE CRISIS CENTER: $71,649 · OtherHELP HOTLINE CRISIS CENTERUNITED WAY OF GREATER DAYTON: $69,641 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER DAYTONMANSFIELDRICHMOND COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $57,189 · OtherMANSFIELDRICHMOND COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRA…FAIRFIELD COUNTY 2-1-1: $46,723 · OtherFAIRFIELD COUNTY 2-1-1LIFELINE INC: $40,828 · OtherLIFELINE INCPATHWAYS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $50,687 · HealthHELPLINE OF DELAWARE AND MORROW COUNTIES: $28,712 · HealthASHTABULA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $27,641 · Human Services
Philanthropy$646,328Other$366,942Health$79,399Human Services$27,641

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $220,305 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $211,250 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO: $188,888 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO: $80,912 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHELP HOTLINE CRISIS CENTER: $71,649 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPATHWAYS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $50,687 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetHELPLINE OF DELAWARE AND MORROW COUNTIES: $28,712 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetASHTABULA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $27,641 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $25,885 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY11× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ohio Council of Information and Referral Providers Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ohio Council of Information and Referral Providers Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ohio Council of Information and Referral Providers Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ohio Council of Information and Referral Providers Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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