· Public charity
United Way of Erie County Inc
To increase the organized capacity for people to care for one another.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| KINSHIP | $10,000 |
| ERIE COUNTY CARE & SHARE | $10,000 |
| ERIE COUNTY CASA PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY YOUTH MENTORING | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,583 |
| RILEY'S ANGELS | $6,500 |
| CANCER SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 -14%
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.
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.
To train and support churches, ministries, and individuals in providing safe and effective mentoring to vulnerable youth and their families
Faith based youth leadership
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.
Provide aid to youth
Youth service.
Empowers youth at-risk and their families to meet goals for safety, stability, belonging and success by providing a continuum of individualized services and advocacy.
The organization is dedicated to providing a full range of services to help eliminate child abuse and neglect. the organization strives to build healthy families through prevention, intervention, treatment and education about alternatives…
To assist families and child care providers in obtaining education, and quality, affordable child care to help children and families reach their greatest potential.
Youth mentoring through a group of programs designed to build and restore self confidence and empowerment toward self discovery and identity establishment.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To provide mentoring programs for at risk youth with educational and recreational opportunities that they normally may not be able to experience.
To provide senior support services
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Sidney Frohman Foundation · The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation · The Mylander Fdn-2001 · Erie County Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Erie County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Erie County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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