· Public charity
United Way of Cleveland County Inc
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $461k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Childrens Homes of Cleveland County | $53,300 |
| Hospice of Cleveland County | $50,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $48,300 |
| Abuse Prevention Council | $46,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Cleveland County | $45,000 |
| Childrens Advocacy Center | $44,000 |
| Communities in Schools | $43,000 |
| Cleveland Cty Council on Aging | $40,000 |
| Kings Mountain Crisis Ministry | $37,500 |
| Mental Health Association | $33,000 |
| CC Community Development Corporation | $33,000 |
| Foster Grandparent Program | $28,000 |
| Life Enrichment Center | $25,000 |
| Cleveland County Hearts and Hooves | $15,000 |
| Community Math Academy | $13,500 |
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 (FY17–21, $914k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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 +45% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- BABoys and Girls Club Cleveland County5× · 2017–2021 · $342k · revenue +156%
- COCOUNCIL ON THE AGING OF CLEVELAND COUNTY NC INC5× · 2017–2021 · $253k · revenue +28%
- HOHOSPICE OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $250k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- WOWASHINGTON OUTREACH MINISTRY INCone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +23%
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.
Creating a link between parents, providers, and the community to improve the availability, accessibility and affordability of quality child care.
Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
Provide essential services to our clients to assist them in reaching self-sufficiency and improving their quality of life.
To offer a broad range of community based and Home-Care Services designed to enable older adults to remain independent and active by living healthy lives.
To serve the local community of Cleveland, OH by distributing food, Bibles, backpacks, school supplies, hygiene products, and other essential consumer goods to alleviate poverty and homelessness.
The Crisis Center of Russell County was organized to provide assistance and temporary housing to victims of domestic abuse through secured temporary housing and education with job placement to transition them back into society. In…
Greater cleveland neighborhood centers association forges key partnerships with community based organizations to support educational programs and connect with residents and promote more
The Cleveland Christian Home, Inc. exists to be a haven of hope for children, youth, and families struggling with mental illness, abuse, and neglect in Northeast Ohio.
To facilitate ethical stewardship of philanthropic resources by helping connect those resources with the needs of cleveland and bradley county.
Providing Biblical, life-affirming resources and services to those affected by unplanned pregnancy.
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Advocacy Center of Cleveland County and the most unlike its peers is Cleco Primary Care Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 23 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 Childrens Homes of Cleveland County Inc ↗
- Who funds Cleveland County Abuse Prevention Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club Cleveland County ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON THE AGING OF CLEVELAND COUNTY NC INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Advocacy Center of Cleveland County ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Cleveland County Inc ↗
- Who funds Kings Mountain Crisis Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH ALLIANCE CORPORATION DBA CLEVELAND COUNTY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Life Enrichment Center of Cleveland County Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way of Cleveland County Inc ↗
- Who funds Cleveland County Community Development Corp Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MATH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 420 ↗
- Who funds Cleco Primary Care Network Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity in Cleveland County ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON OUTREACH MINISTRY 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: Albemarle Foundation · Hospice Cleveland County Foundation · The Paul and Margaret Porter Charitable Foundation · Dover Foundation Inc · The Neisler Foundation TUA · Duke Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Cleveland County Inc 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.