· Public charity
United Way of Fairfield County
"improving lives through the caring power of our community" - we will focus our resources to achieve the greatest impact on community needs.
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 20 grants below total $877,094 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $989,760 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $112,666 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 $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $626k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRFIELD CENTER FOR DISABILITIES | $90,931 |
| INFORMATION AND REFERRAL | $82,316 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES | $67,001 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS | $57,430 |
| LIGHTHOUSE | $57,430 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $57,430 |
| MAYWOOD MISSION | $57,430 |
| PICKERINGTON FOOD PANTRY | $52,644 |
| ROBERT K FOX FAMILY Y | $51,688 |
| PICKERINGTON SCHOOLSWISE | $51,209 |
| NEW HORIZONS | $49,773 |
| LANCASTER FAIRFIELD COMM ACTION | $47,858 |
| HARCUM HOUSE | $38,287 |
| VICTORY CENTER FOOD PANTRY | $30,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO HEARTLAND | $23,929 |
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, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 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
- IRINFORMATION & REFERRAL OF FAIRFIELD8× · 2017–2025 · $606k · revenue +270% · 31% of their budget
- FCFAIRFIELD CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $587k · revenue +16%
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO8× · 2017–2025 · $517k · revenue +38%
Funded once
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.
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…
Serves as a safety net for those summit county residents who are most in need of behavioral health services as a result of severe and persistent mental illness the agency proveides comprehensive, high quality, cost-effective treatment,…
Discovery behavioral healthcare is a community based health treatment center dedicated to providing state of the art services to foster recovery and resilience in an accessible, respective and caring environment.
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…
To provide mental health, substance abuse, and integrated care services to residents of ross, pike, pickaway, fayette, and highland counties in ohio.
Mission: we listen, care and help. every day. vision: a community where anyone can achieve their full potential. programs: our services treat mental health issues; reduce substance use; shelter, feed, educate and seek permanent housing for…
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
To transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.
Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.
Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers, Inc. serves the community behavioral health needs of nine counties of Southern Oklahoma. Lighthouse offers integrated care through their outpatient and Health Home programs to adults and children.…
To provide treatment and prevention of substance abuse and related mental health problems for the residents of columbiana county and surrounding counties.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Pickerington Food Pantry. 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 52 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 26 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 INFORMATION & REFERRAL OF FAIRFIELD ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY YMCA OF LANCASTER & FAIRFIELD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM COMMISSION OF THE LANCASTER-FAIRFIELD COUNTY AREA INC ↗
- Who funds MAYWOOD MISSION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHEASTERN OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PICKERINGTON FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds HARCUM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SIMON KENTON COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Canal Winchester Human Services Corp ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION DINNERS ↗
- Who funds LIFE CENTER ADULT DAYCARE ↗
- Who funds MID-OHIO PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES IN ↗
- Who funds THE RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation Shelters ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: Fairfield County Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Don & Jo Ann Bainter Fdn Tr · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Fairfield 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.