· Public charity
United Way of Geauga County
United Way of Geauga County's mission is to be the leader in improving 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $235,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $635,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $400,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE - GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTERS | $80,000 |
| FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $55,000 |
| RAVENWOOD HEALTH | $50,000 |
| JALS INC DOORS OF HOPE GEAUGA | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $948k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% 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 +46% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION5× · 2017–2021 · $404k · revenue +19%
- LGLAKE GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTERS INC6× · 2017–2023 · $370k · revenue +46%
- RMRAVENWOOD MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC6× · 2017–2023 · $308k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- CFCHAGRIN FALLS PARKone grant, 2017 · $67k
- GCGEAUGA COUNTY HUNGER TASK FORCEone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +14%
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…
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
To provide a quality, affordable, and compassionate health home for every patient, every time, in all communities.
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
Community Health Ohio - TLC LLC - Providing mental health services to adults who have been diagnosed with severe and persistent mental health needs in Butler County. Community Health Ohio -SRS LLC is committed to be the provider of choice…
To promote the healthy development of children and families through quality behavioral and mental health services, community partnerships and advocacy.
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…
Reaching out to adults and children in northeast ohio to end homelessness, prevent suicide, resolve behavioral health crises and overcome trauma
Vocational and educational services
Our mission is to help children and families realize the possibilities of their lives through foster care, adoption, and mental health. we serve over 1,700 children and families in 14 northeast ohio counties.
The organization provides a comprehensive range of family focused services for lorain county, ohio victims of domestic violence. we endeavor to be a part of collaborative community
Family health care (fhc) is dedicated to providing high quality, patient-centered care to all residents of van wert and surrounding counties. fhc offers medical, dental and behavioral health services to patients regardless of a person's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Pride of Northeast Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 16 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds RAVENWOOD MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PRIDE OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENSAFE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds JALS Inc ↗
- Who funds TORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DDC CLINIC FOR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds TWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Sue Osborn ↗
- Who funds GEAUGA COUNTY HUNGER TASK FORCE ↗
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: The Cleveland Foundation · United Way of Lake County Inc · Jerome T Osborne and Georgeanne S Osborne Charitable Trust · Wr & Floy a Sauey Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Covia Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Geauga 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.