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· Public charity

United Way of Defiance County Inc

To unite people and resources to improve lives in defiance county.

$126k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Health$328kHuman Services$283kCrime & Legal$203kPublic Safety & Disaster$199kYouth Development$6k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $88,502, the rows itemized in this filing. The $126,169 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $37,667 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 $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
$16,231
Median grant
1
States reached
$623k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NOCAC: $52k → 11%NOCAC: $42k → 11%NOCAC: $41k → 11%NOCAC: $32k → 11%RAVENS: $31k → 11%NOCAC: $29k → 11%RAVENS: $28k → 11%RAVENS: $27k → 11%NOCAC: $27k → 11%NOCAC: $26k → 11%RAVENS: $26k → 11%RAVENS: $23k → 11%RAVENS: $20k → 11%RAVENS: $20k → 11%RAVENS: $18k → 11%DEFIANCE DREAM CENTER: $9k → 11%DEFIANCE DREAM CENTER: $7k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$944k · 9 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$944k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

89%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther
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

  • NO
    NORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMI
    7× · 2017–2024 · $249k · revenue +48%
  • MV
    MAUMEE VALLEY GUIDANCE CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $135k · revenue +44%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $129k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • NO
    NORTHWEST OHIO CASA
    one grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue +12%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue -3%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

1
Southern Ohio Area Task Force on

Provide services to the victims of domestic voilence

Human Services
2
New Choices Inc

The mission of new choices, inc. is to provide shelby county, ohio with the immediate care needs for individuals of domestic violence.

Human Services
3
Oakhouse

Vocational and educational services

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4
Commquest Services Inc

To provide collaborative care and advocacy for people through three pillars of service: mental health, addiction recovery, and social support.

Human Services
5
Compass Family & Community Services

Compass helps individuals and families build better lives and a stronger community.

Human Services
6
Unison Behavioral Health Group Inc

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…

Health
7
Ohio Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

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.

Civil Rights
8
Ywca of Northwest Ohio

The ywca of northwest ohio strives to be a powerful proactive force for the support and advancement of women and girls in our community that will continue to work for peace, justice, equality, and dignity for all people.

Human Services
9
Mid-Ohio Psychological Services in

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…

—
10
New Horizons Mental Health Services Inc

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

Health
11
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

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.

Civil Rights
12
Family Resource Center of Northwest Ohio Inc

To provide specialized behavioral health services to individuals, children and families in our multi-cultural communities in order to strengthen family life and promote personal growth.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maumee Valley Guidance Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMI: $248,900 · Human ServicesNORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMIRAVENS CARE INC: $193,047 · Human ServicesRAVENS CARE INC+1 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesMAUMEE VALLEY GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $135,143 · HealthMAUMEE VALLEY GUIDANCE CENTER INCCPC WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE: $86,189 · HealthCPC WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCERECOVERY SERVICES OF NORTHWEST OHIO INC: $77,713 · HealthRECOVERY SERVICES OF NORTHWEST OHI…COMMUNITY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INC: $10,861 · HealthCENTER FOR CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY INC: $129,099 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR CHILD & …LEGAL AID OF WESTERN OHIO INC: $45,300 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF WESTER…A RENEWED MIND: $13,390 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $9,689 · OtherCOMPREHENSIVE CRISIS CARE: $9,611 · OtherBLACK SWAMP AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $6,164 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $5,795 · OtherSTATE OF WASHINGTON: $5,186 · OtherNORTHWEST OHIO CASA: $28,946 · Civil Rights
Human Services$456,947Health$309,906Crime & Legal$174,399Other$49,835Civil Rights$28,946

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMI: $248,900 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetRAVENS CARE INC: $193,047 over 8y, 25% of budgetMAUMEE VALLEY GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $135,143 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY INC: $129,099 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCPC WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE: $86,189 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetRECOVERY SERVICES OF NORTHWEST OHIO INC: $77,713 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLEGAL AID OF WESTERN OHIO INC: $45,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST OHIO CASA: $28,946 over 1y, 15% of budgetIgnite Academy: $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetA RENEWED MIND: $13,390 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INC: $10,861 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $9,689 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK SWAMP AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $6,164 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

United Way of Fulton …United Way of Henry C…United Way of William…Defiance Area Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Fulton CountyOH17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Fulton County · United Way of Henry County · United Way of Williams County · Defiance Area Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 United Way of Defiance County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Defiance County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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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    How do I get to United Way of Defiance County Inc?

    Find your warmest path to United Way of Defiance County Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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