· Public charity
United Way of Erie County Inc
To increase the organized capacity for people to care for one another.
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 14 grants below total $198,483 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $211,583 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,100 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 $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $177k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHGO | $30,000 |
| SAFE HARBOUR SHELTER | $25,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| ERIE COUNTY SENIOR CENTER | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $17,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY-SANDUSKY | $15,000 |
| KIWANIS CLUB OF SANDUSKY | $10,400 |
| ERIE COUNTY CARE & SHARE | $10,000 |
| KINSHIP | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY YOUTH MENTORING | $10,000 |
| ERIE COUNTY CASA PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,583 |
| RILEY'S ANGELS | $6,500 |
| CANCER SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY | $6,000 |
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, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- OOH-GO6× · 2019–2024 · $132k · revenue +226%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +19%
- CYCOMMUNITY YOUTH MENTORING6× · 2019–2024 · $59k · revenue +169%
Funded once
- SASANDUSKY AREA YMCAone grant, 2017 · $19k
- GSGIRL SCOUTSone grant, 2017 · $17k
- BSBLACK SWAMP AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue -11%
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.
Youth service.
Provide aid to youth
It is the mission of the boy scouts of america to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the scout law and oath.
To train and support churches, ministries, and individuals in providing safe and effective mentoring to vulnerable youth and their families
To assist families and child care providers in obtaining education, and quality, affordable child care to help children and families reach their greatest potential.
Faith based youth leadership
To provide senior support services
To provide quality day care and early learning for children whose parents may not be able to afford quality day care and provide a safe place to educate children
Family and children's services provides compassionate care, intervention and education to support people during challenging times in their lives.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Operation of a residential camp for needy youngsters on a no charge basis
To provide mentoring programs for at risk youth with educational and recreational opportunities that they normally may not be able to experience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kinship Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Rileys Angels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 35 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 OH-GO ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH MENTORING ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY AREA YMCA ↗
- Who funds BLACK SWAMP AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds RILEYS ANGELS ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES FKA CANCER SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
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: Sidney Frohman Foundation · The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation · The Mylander Fdn-2001 · Erie County Community 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 Erie 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.