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United Way of Fulton County

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities.

$85k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
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.

Human Services$192kCrime & Legal$110kReligion$71kFood & Nutrition$54kEducation$32kHealth$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$6k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $85,258 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $65,258 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.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$175k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWEST OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COM$8,500
THE OPEN DOOR$6,000
WAUSEON FISH$5,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%NORTHWEST OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COM: $23k → 11%NORTHWEST OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COM: $21k → 11%NORTHWEST OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COM: $21k → 11%NORTHWEST OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COM: $19k → 11%NORTHWEST OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COM: $14k → 11%NORTHWEST OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COM: $11k → 11%NORTHWEST OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COM: $10k → 11%NORTHWEST OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COM: $9k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 8%HANDS OF GRACE: $14k → 8%HANDS OF GRACE: $14k → 8%HANDS OF GRACE: $14k → 8%THE OPEN DOOR: $10k → 8%THE OPEN DOOR: $10k → 8%THE OPEN DOOR: $10k → 8%THE OPEN DOOR: $10k → 8%THE OPEN DOOR: $9k → 8%THE OPEN DOOR: $8k → 8%THE OPEN DOOR: $8k → 8%HANDS OF GRACE: $7k → 8%THE OPEN DOOR: $6k → 8%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$463k · 9 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$463k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+39%

Still filing today

67%
33%

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
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthOther
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
    8× · 2017–2024 · $126k · revenue +65%
  • TO
    THE OPEN DOOR OF DELTA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +24%
  • LA
    LEGAL AID OF WESTERN OHIO INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $57k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMPREHENSIVE CRISIS CARE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +39%
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
Family Crisis Centers Inc

Walk with people facing violence, offering safety, support, and hope as they heal and rebuild. with every step forward, we build stronger, more resilient communities.

Human Services
2
Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio

To enhance the lives of adults by assisting them to remain independent at home through a range of quality services.

Human Services
3
Family Health Services of Darke County Inc

Provide primary health care services for low-income individuals by managing & operating a health facility & its programs for all darke county residents.

Health
4
Cleveland County Abuse Prevention Council Inc

The Abuse Prevention Council provides emergency, advocacy, counseling, education and specialized services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and homeless individuals and families.

Crime & Legal
5
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
6
Lakes Crisis and Resource Center

Fostering safety, hope and healing through advocacy, intervention and education; direct services for those affectede by domestic violence, abused children, sexual assault victims and general crimes; shelter for women and children; youth…

Human Services
7
Family Health Services of East Central Ohio

Family health services of east central ohio, inc. is a non-profit organization established in 1967 to provide and assure access to voluntary, comprehensive and culturally sensitive family planning and reproductive health care services.

Health
8
Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

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…

Human Services
9
Family Crisis Center Inc

Provide advocacy and support to all surviors and secondary victims of domestic and sexual violence, child abuse and neglect while encouraging social change through awareness, education and prevention.

—
10
The Women's Center Inc

To provide safety, shelter and support to empower all impacted by domestic abuse, sexual violence, child abuse & trafficking.

Human Services
11
Lake County Crisis Center

A safe place is the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence & human trafficking in northern illinois.

—
12
Womens Resource Center of Newport and Bristol Counties

The women's resource center empowers survivors by providing trauma-informed services with equity and compassion while working collaboratively with the community to eliminate the root causes of interpersonal abuse.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Child & Family Advocacy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hands of Grace Faith in Action. 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

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 12 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMI: $126,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITHE OPEN DOOR OF DELTA: $70,800 · Human ServicesTHE OPEN DOOR OF DELTAHANDS OF GRACE FAITH IN ACTION: $48,880 · Human ServicesHANDS OF GRACE FAITH IN ACTION+1 more: $5,542 · Human ServicesLEGAL AID OF WESTERN OHIO INC: $56,500 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF WESTERN OHIO…CENTER FOR CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY INC: $53,500 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR CHILD & FAMILY…WAUSEON FISH INC: $53,500 · OtherWAUSEON FISH INCARCHBOLD AREA SCHOOLS: $16,000 · OtherARCHBOLD AREA SCHOOLSWAUSEON EXEMPTED VILLAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $16,000 · OtherWAUSEON EXEMPTED VILLAGE…COMPREHENSIVE CRISIS CARE: $10,000 · OtherCOMPREHENSIVE CRISIS CAR…FAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $7,500 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHW…CPC WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE: $22,000 · Health
Human Services$251,222Crime & Legal$110,000Other$103,000Health$22,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMI: $126,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR OF DELTA: $70,800 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetLEGAL AID OF WESTERN OHIO INC: $56,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY INC: $53,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetHANDS OF GRACE FAITH IN ACTION: $48,880 over 4y, 25% of budgetCPC WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE: $22,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,542 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds NORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMI ↗
  • Who funds THE OPEN DOOR OF DELTA ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID OF WESTERN OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY INC ↗
  • Who funds HANDS OF GRACE FAITH IN ACTION ↗
  • Who funds CPC WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗

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 Defianc…United Way of William…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Defiance County IncOH17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Defiance County Inc · United Way of Williams County · 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 Fulton County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Fulton County. 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
    2report 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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    Find your warmest path to United Way of Fulton County 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 12 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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