How much does The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley give?

The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley reported 38 itemized grants totaling $986,000, out of $1,016,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

Who are The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: YWCA Mahoning Valley ($645k), Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley ($530k), Youngstown Area Goodwill Industries Inc ($508k).

Does The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley, Youngstown Fdn General, The Raymond John Wean Foundation.

The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley

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· Public charity

The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley

Q: What does The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (44%), Health (14%), Youth Development (9%).

Q: Where is The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley based?

The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley is based in OH.

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.

$1.0M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$63k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$3.6MHealth$1.1MYouth Development$742kFood & Nutrition$560kEducation$534kEmployment$508kCommunity Improvement$313kArts & Culture$244kOther$0

02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 38 grants below total $986,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,016,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,000 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 $10k3 grants · $23k
$10k–50k31 grants · $731k
$50k–250k4 grants · $233k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES	$62,500
YWCA	$60,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY	$60,000
POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT	$50,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER	$47,500
COMPASS FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES	$47,500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES REGIONAL AGENCY	$45,000
SALVATION ARMY	$45,000
YMCA	$40,000
HELP HOTLINE CRISIS CENTER	$38,000
HEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES	$33,000
BEATITUDE HOUSE	$32,000
MYCAP	$32,000
EASTER SEALS NORTHERN OHIO INC	$30,000
YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (YNDC)	$30,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.8M · 38 repeat orgs$224k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against -52% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.8M

$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

-52%

Still filing today

76%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

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YWCA MAHONING VALLEY
8× · 2017–2024 · $645k · revenue +67%
SH
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY
8× · 2017–2024 · $530k · revenue +36%
YA
YOUNGSTOWN AREA GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $508k · revenue +75%

Funded once

UM
UNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $25k
YC
YOUNGSTOWN COMMITTEE ON ALCOHOLISM INC
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -101%
YH
YOUNGSTOWN HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -52%

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.

Associated Neighborhood Centers

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.…

Community Improvement

Catholic Charities Serving Portage and Stark Counties

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…

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Youth Advocate Services

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.

Human Services

Youth for Christ of Northern Ohio

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.

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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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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.

Philanthropy

Ywca Dayton

YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development

South Central Ohio Big Brothers Big Sisters Association

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development

Central Ohio Youth for Christ Inc

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…

Youth Development

Leadership Mahoning Valley Inc

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…

Public Benefit

Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Central Ohio

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seal Society of Mahoning Trumbull and Columbiana Counties; the most unlike its peers is Youngstown Blue Coats. 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

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/45

Grantees still filing

27/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,780,466Human Services$2,552,687Food & Nutrition$529,560Community Improvement$360,000Housing & Shelter$312,741Education$312,500Arts & Culture$244,163

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.

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.

Community Foundation of the Mahoning ValleyOH73.7× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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