· Public charity
The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley
THE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY seeks to be the driving force behind sustained improvement in the lives of all our citizens, through initiatives that promote education, income, health, and community support services.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of THE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 38 grants below total $986,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,016,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,000 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $731k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $233k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $62,500 |
| YWCA | $60,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY | $60,000 |
| POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT | $50,000 |
| COMPASS FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES | $47,500 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $47,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $45,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES REGIONAL AGENCY | $45,000 |
| YMCA | $40,000 |
| HELP HOTLINE CRISIS CENTER | $38,000 |
| HEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES | $33,000 |
| MYCAP | $32,000 |
| BEATITUDE HOUSE | $32,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (YNDC) | $30,000 |
| EASTER SEALS NORTHERN OHIO INC | $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 (FY17–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +35% since the first grant, against -52% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k 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
- YMYWCA MAHONING VALLEY8× · 2017–2024 · $645k · revenue +67%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY8× · 2017–2024 · $530k · revenue +36%
- YAYOUNGSTOWN AREA GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $508k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- YCYOUNGSTOWN COMMITTEE ON ALCOHOLISM INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -101%
- UMUNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $25k
- YHYOUNGSTOWN HEARING AND SPEECH CENTERone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -52%
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.
Serve the Youngstown area community with social, health, financial, strategic life advice, physical education and well-being services in addition to providing housing advice, food for the needy, program activities, and cultural activities.…
Catholic charities serving portage and stark counties shares the mission held by catholic charities usa: to provide service to people in need, advocate for justice in social structures, and call the entire church and other people of good…
Youth for christ is a non-denominational, youth-centered, christian association of churches that aims to participate in the body of christ in responsible evangelism of youth.
Yas strives to provide culturally competent mental health treatment, independent living skill development and care planning services in order to prevent out of home placement.
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.
YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
The united way of youngstown and the mahoning valley seeks to be the driving force behind sustained improvement in the lives of all our citizens, through initiatives that promote education, income, health, and community support services.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…
Leadership mahoning valley, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation located in youngstown, ohio. the corporation was formed in 1994 to identify individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences who demonstrate leadership talent and…
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seal Society of Mahoning Trumbull and Columbiana Counties and the most unlike its peers is The English Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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. 45 of the 53 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 YWCA MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN AREA GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF YOUNGSTOWN OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES REGIONAL AGENCY ↗
- Who funds HELP HOTLINE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEATITUDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECTION HOME OF EASTERN OHIO ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF MAHONING VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds MYCAP VEBA ↗
- Who funds ALL CHILDREN LEARN DIFFERENTLY SCHOOL AND LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SISTER JEROME'S SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds OH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH ↗
- Who funds OCCHA Inc ↗
- Who funds CARTER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HOME MAINTENANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS NORTHERN OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KOOL BOIZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALTA CARE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MAHONING VALLEY COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF MAHONING TRUMBULL AND COLUMBIANA COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE MIDWEST INC ↗
- Who funds FLYING HIGH 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: Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Youngstown Fdn General · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · The William Swanston Charitable Fund · Western Reserve Health Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Trust Uw David Tod Arrel · Ruth Beecher H XI Char Tw · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation · Florence S Beecher Fdn
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 The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley 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.