· Public charity
United Way of Ashland County
To improve and serve as a leader for change in ashland county by uniting the caring power of our community.
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 · $19k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $395k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSOCIATED CHARITIES | $133,000 |
| APPLESEED COMM MENTAL HEALTH CTR | $103,200 |
| ASHLAND PARENTING PLUS | $97,900 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $61,000 |
| ASHLAND FAMILY YMCA | $40,900 |
| HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE | $39,800 |
| ASHLAND CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER | $33,400 |
| ACCADA | $33,000 |
| ASHLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $18,700 |
| OLIVE TREE CARE | $16,700 |
| KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF OHIO | $15,000 |
| ACCESS | $13,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $9,700 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $9,700 |
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, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 1% 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.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- ACASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF ASHLAND OHIO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +1% · 48% of their budget
- ACAPPLESEED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $832k · revenue +55%
- APASHLAND PARENTING PLUS9× · 2017–2025 · $762k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
Services to the elderly
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…
The ashland pregnancy care center is a christ-centered ministry offering compassion, hope, and help to women and men facing critical pregnancy decisions.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Organization that operates a multi-purpose senior center for persons sixty years of age or older and their spouses, regardless of age, living in ashtabula county, ohio. the agency also provides older americans with health assessment,…
Providing services to the elderly
Public charity making grants for charitable purposes. grants are made from endowment funds established by many donors. encourage philanthropy and enhance quality of life in ashland county. support charitable activities through grant…
Our mission is to meet the needs of residents at various levels of care including short-term rehab and long-term healthcare.
To provide comprehensive, affordable medical, psychiatric and health-related services to the community's most vulnerable populations, regardless of income.
The mission of the columbiana county mental health clinic is to improve the lives of individuals and families by meeting the behavioral health needs of our community. this is accomplished through: 1) excellent customer service, 2)…
To Provide Safe and Affordable Housing for Elderly Low-Income Persons.
Assisting ashland county residents in need of secure, safe, affordable housing through rentals, renovations, and/or new homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Appleseed Community Mental Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mohican Area Community Fund. 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 22 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 ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF ASHLAND OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds APPLESEED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND PARENTING PLUS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ASHLAND OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MOHICAN AREA COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND COUNTY CANCER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND CHURCH COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SHELTER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS 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: Ashland County Community Foundation · Samaritan Hospital Foundation · The Norma Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 United Way of Ashland County 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.