· Public charity
United Way of Ashtabula County
UNITED WAY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY serves as a responsible steward of donated resources to impact the critical needs of our community in the areas of health, education and financial stability.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $316,059 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $330,048 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,989 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $294k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ASHTABULA COUNTY | $41,274 |
| COUNTRY NEIGHBOR PROGRAM | $29,529 |
| ASHTABULA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA | $26,483 |
| HOMESAFE | $25,679 |
| ASHTABULA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $20,878 |
| CONNEAUT HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL | $20,536 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $19,404 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $19,204 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $19,000 |
| LEGAL AID CORPORATION | $17,775 |
| SALVATION ARMY SERVICE UNITS | $16,075 |
| ASHTABULA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $16,001 |
| BEATITUDE HOUSE | $11,398 |
| ASHTABULA REGIONAL HOME HEALTH SERVICES | $11,092 |
| ASHTABULA DREAM CENTER | $6,240 |
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 (FY18–25, $620k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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 +34% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ASHTABULA COUNTY8× · 2018–2025 · $436k · revenue +47%
- CNCOUNTRY NEIGHBOR PROGRAM INC8× · 2018–2025 · $401k · revenue +71%
- HIHOMESAFE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $331k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIOone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -5%
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.
To provide high-quality child care to infants and children.
To operate an animal shelter, educate the public, and prevent cruelty to animals.
The civic development corporation of ashtabula county improves the quality of life in our community by surveying its stakeholders, developing strategic objectives, identifying impactful projects, raising funds, and providing oversight for…
To achieve economic prosperity and improve the quality of life for all of ashtabula county.
To provide ashtabula county with a network of current and emerging leaders who possess the skills and the sense of commitment to improve the community.
Services to the elderly
Providing services to the elderly
To provide short-term emergency financial assistance to the people in ashland county in the way of utilities, shelter, medication, pre-approved doctor and dental visits, and gasoline vouchers to doctor appointments out of town.
United way of ashtabula county serves as a responsible steward of donated resources to impact the critical needs of our community in the areas of health, education and financial stability.
To enforce laws preventing cruelty to animals and to provide affective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Striving to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty by stabilizing families of ashland county (ohio) in a safe and spiritual environment.
Provide a safe, friendly place for the spiritual, physical and mental development of youth and adults
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Ashtabula County and the most unlike its peers is Girl Scouts of North East Ohio. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ASHTABULA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY NEIGHBOR PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HOMESAFE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNEAUT HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA HOMELESS SHELTERINC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ASHTABULA INC ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL DISCOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds ASHTABULA COUNTY CONTINUED EDUCATION SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
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: Robert S Morrison Foundation · The Ashtabula Foundation Inc · The Androse Foundation · 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 Ashtabula 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.