· Public charity
Shelby County United Way
SHELBY COUNTY UNITED WAY, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $443k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $663k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA CHILDCARE DEV CENTER | $120,000 |
| MERCY MISSION HOUSE | $85,000 |
| WILMA VALENTINE AGENCY | $80,000 |
| SPECIAL PROJECTS | $71,633 |
| COMPASSIONATE CARE | $70,000 |
| AGENCY ALLOCATIONS POWER | $65,924 |
| NEW CHOICES | $60,000 |
| SAMARITAN WORKS | $55,000 |
| ALPHA COMMUNITY CENTER | $55,000 |
| VICTIM SERVICES | $45,000 |
| SENIOR HEALTH-CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVI | $45,000 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES - COUNSELI | $40,000 |
| SHERIFF STAR HOUSE | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| SENIOR CENTER OF SIDNEY SHELBY COUN | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
33 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SIDNEY & SHELBY COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $937k · revenue +80%
- SCSHELBY COUNTY UNITED WAY9× · 2017–2025 · $730k · revenue +13%
- WVWILMA VALENTINE CHILDCARE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $692k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $46k
- WCWFP CAREER COUNSELORone grant, 2021 · $34k
- SPSPECIAL PROJECTSone grant, 2023 · $30k
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.
At the sheffield care center our mission, through dedicated teamwork, is to provide all who enter our doors with a clean, comfortable, home-like atmosphere where honesty, dignity, respect and genuine compassion for one another prevails.
Provide awareness in the community of mental health needs and suicide rates. provide support, education, and counseling for those in need.
Temporary shelter for abused spouses and their children.
The mission of shelby senior services, inc is to respond to the ever-changing needs of seniors and their families, to affect in positive ways their quality of life, and to assist in maintaining their independence.
To promote and organize nutritional services, quality care giving, social and educational activities for shelby county senior citizens and create public awareness about senior citizens issues and concerns.
Ambulance commission
A non-profit senior living community dedicated to providing quality housing, rehabilitative services and long-term nursing care reflecting christian compassion for everyone.
Christian care communities enhances the journey of life for those we serve. recognizing the unique needs of each individual christian care offers an array of housing and care options including independent living. 24-hour skilled nursing…
Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.
To provide a community service by providing a place where a family can enjoy a safe environment
We advocate for business growth and support the success of our members while collaborating with partners to promote shelby county as a highly desirable community in which to live, work, and play.
Child abuse awareness and prevention
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelby County United Way and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan Works Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 38 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SIDNEY & SHELBY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds WILMA VALENTINE CHILDCARE INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSIONATE CARE OF SHELBY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE MIAMI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CHOICES INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY MISSION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SHELBY & DARKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAR CREEK FARM ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON RURAL SERVICE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MIAMI VALLEY COUNCIL 444 ↗
- Who funds REHABILITATION CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY ARC INC ↗
- Who funds SAFEHAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CENTER OF SIDNEY-SHELBY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SIDNEY-SHELBY COUNTY WORKFORCE ↗
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: Community Foundation of Shelby County · Honda of America Foundation · The Troy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · 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 Shelby County United Way 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.