· Public charity
United Way of Delaware County
The mission of the UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY is to improve the quality of life in 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.
The 14 grants below total $815,626 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $983,782 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $168,156 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $188k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $620k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEOPLE IN NEED OF DELAWARE COUNTY OHIO | $186,615 |
| SALVATION ARMY IN CENTRAL OHIO | $102,448 |
| LIBERTY COMMUNITY CENTER | $95,780 |
| GRACE CLINIC OF OHIO | $84,383 |
| TURNING POINT | $80,174 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO | $70,330 |
| HELPLINE OF DELAWARE & MORROW COUNTIES | $49,029 |
| DELAWARE CITY VINEYARD | $37,000 |
| COMMON GROUND FREE STORE | $36,140 |
| DELAWARE SPEECH & HEARING CENTER | $31,165 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF DELAWARE COUNTY | $13,018 |
| ANDREW'S HOUSE | $11,050 |
| NAMI MID-OHIO | $10,120 |
| SOURCEPOINT | $8,374 |
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, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 3% 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 +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- LCLIBERTY COMMUNITY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +24%
- PIPEOPLE IN NEED INC OF DELAWARE COUNTY OHIO9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +125%
- GCGRACE CLINICS OF OHIO INC8× · 2018–2025 · $905k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- SASalvation Armyone grant, 2017 · $228k
- TPTURNING POINTone grant, 2017 · $210k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $126k
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.
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
To eliminate the spread and stigma of hiv/aids, improve the lives of those living with hiv/aids, and promote community health through comprehensive and culturally-sensitive services, education programs and advocacy.
The delaware center for justice, inc. seeks to ensure an effective, efficient, and equitable system of justice in delaware through advocacy, direct services, research and public education.
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…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
To Provide Safe and Affordable Housing for Low-Income Persons.
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
See schedule oto 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…
Prevention of drug & alcohol abuse and provide mental health services.
Address needs of homeless families in butler county ohio.
To work towards the prevention and elimination of domestic and dating violence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Delaware County and the most unlike its peers is Delaware County Housing Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 42 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 LIBERTY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE IN NEED INC OF DELAWARE COUNTY OHIO ↗
- Who funds GRACE CLINICS OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED CITIZENS AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAI DBA TURNING POINT ↗
- Who funds HELPLINE OF DELAWARE AND MORROW COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds ANDREWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Delaware Speech and Hearing Center ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND FREE STORE ↗
- Who funds MARYHAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds SOURCEPOINT ↗
- Who funds SECOND WARD COMMUNITY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MARION SHELTER PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY & PREVENTION RESOURCES OF DELAWARE AND MORROW COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds MARYSVILLE AREA MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI MID-OHIO ↗
- Who funds Delaware County Housing Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL 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: Delaware County Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Sourcepoint · American Electric Power Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Hathaway Family Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · United Way of Union County Inc · Honda of America 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 Delaware 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.