· Public charity
United Way of Defiance County Inc
To unite people and resources to improve lives in defiance county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $88,502 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $126,169 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $37,667 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 $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOCAC | $26,623 |
| RAVENS | $20,468 |
| CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY | $16,231 |
| CPC WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCES | $15,609 |
| RECOVERY SERVICES OF NWO | $9,571 |
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, $457k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 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 FY2024, 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
- NONORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMI7× · 2017–2024 · $249k · revenue +65%
- MVMAUMEE VALLEY GUIDANCE CENTER INC7× · 2017–2023 · $135k · revenue +44%
- CFCENTER FOR CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $129k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- NONORTHWEST OHIO CASAone grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue +12%
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INCone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue -3%
- FSFAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHWEST OHIOone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Provide services to the victims of domestic voilence
The mission of new choices, inc. is to provide shelby county, ohio with the immediate care needs for individuals of domestic violence.
Promote the establishment and success of multi-disciplinary teams and children's advocacy centers by providing support, education, and networking opportunities to enhance ohio's respones to child abuse.
Unison behavioral health group, inc. is a community mental health agency that provides mental health and addiction services to lucas and wood counties. our mental health outpatient services are offered at many levels of care depending on a…
Vocational and educational services
To provide GAL services
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
Provide Christ centered recovery homes offering hope, healing, and restoration for individuals recovering from addictive substances.
At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…
To provide mental health care to children, adults, and families of the fairfield county area and occasionally to other counties in the state of ohio
To provide collaborative care and advocacy for people through three pillars of service: mental health, addiction recovery, and social support.
Mid-ohio psychological services, inc. provides high-quality, cost- effective, culturally-sensitive, socially responsible, mental health, substance abuse, and support services to individuals and community organizations, while offering…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maumee Valley Guidance Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ignite Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 NORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMI ↗
- Who funds RAVENS CARE INC ↗
- Who funds MAUMEE VALLEY GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds CPC WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY SERVICES OF NORTHWEST OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF WESTERN OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST OHIO CASA ↗
- Who funds Ignite Academy ↗
- Who funds A RENEWED MIND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds BLACK SWAMP AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
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: United Way of Fulton County · United Way of Henry County · United Way of Williams County · Defiance Area 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 Defiance 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.
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