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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.

$635k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2023.

Health$1.1MHuman Services$779kYouth Development$195kHousing & Shelter$150kRecreation & Sports$87kEmployment$59kEducation$40kFood & Nutrition$8k
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $235,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $635,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $400,000 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.
$55,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAKE - GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTERS$80,000
FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$55,000
JALS INC DOORS OF HOPE GEAUGA$50,000
RAVENWOOD HEALTH$50,000
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 (FY17–23, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $55k → 12%Family & Community Services Inc: $40k → 12%FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 12%Next Step-Family and Community Services: $27k → 12%NEXT STEP (FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES): $22k → 12%LAKE - GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTERS: $80k → 9%Lake-Geauga Recovery Centers: $60k → 9%Lake Geauga Recovery Centers Inc: $56k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMM SVCS GA CTY: $110k → 6%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORP GEAUGA: $109k → 6%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORP GEAUGA: $90k → 6%LAKE GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTERS: $62k → 6%LAKE GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTERS: $56k → 6%LAKE GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTERS: $56k → 6%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORP GEAUGA: $50k → 6%Catholic Charities Corporation of Geauga: $45k → 6%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 14 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$2.3M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+14%

Still filing today

93%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterEmploymentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $404k · revenue +19%
  • LG
    LAKE GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTERS INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $370k · revenue +46%
  • RM
    RAVENWOOD MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $308k · revenue +164%

Funded once

  • CF
    CHAGRIN FALLS PARK
    one grant, 2017 · $67k
  • GC
    GEAUGA COUNTY HUNGER TASK FORCE
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · 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.

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
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
2
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
3
Axess Family Services Inc

To provide a quality, affordable, and compassionate health home for every patient, every time, in all communities.

Health
4
Clermont Counseling Center

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
5
Community Health Ohio

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…

Health
6
Portage County Children's Services Center

To promote the healthy development of children and families through quality behavioral and mental health services, community partnerships and advocacy.

Health
7
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
8
Mental Health Services for Homeless Persons Inc

Reaching out to adults and children in northeast ohio to end homelessness, prevent suicide, resolve behavioral health crises and overcome trauma

Human Services
9
Oakhouse

Vocational and educational services

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10
Pathway Caring for Children

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.

Health
11
Lorain County Safe Harbor Corp

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

Human Services
12
Family Health Care of Northwest Ohio

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Pride of Northeast Ohio Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $404,104 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATIONLAKE GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTERS INC: $369,606 · Human ServicesLAKE GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTERS INCFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $173,987 · Human ServicesFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INCRAVENWOOD MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $307,920 · OtherRAVENWOOD MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INCWOMENSAFE INC: $241,277 · OtherWOMENSAFE INCTORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORING ALLIANCE: $81,282 · OtherTORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORING ALLIANCECHAGRIN FALLS PARK: $66,500 · OtherCHAGRIN FALLS PARKESC OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $40,000 · OtherLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC: $28,996 · Other+1 more: $20,250 · OtherFAMILY PRIDE OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC: $282,229 · HealthFAMILY PRIDE OF N…DDC CLINIC FOR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN: $78,245 · HealthDDC CLINIC FOR SP…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $114,000 · Youth DevelopmentJALS Inc: $110,000 · Housing & ShelterTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE: $58,987 · EmploymentGEAUGA COUNTY HUNGER TASK FORCE: $8,466 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$947,697Other$786,225Health$360,474Youth Development$114,000Housing & Shelter$110,000Employment$58,987Food & Nutrition$8,466

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $404,104 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTERS INC: $369,606 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetRAVENWOOD MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $307,920 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY PRIDE OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC: $282,229 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetWOMENSAFE INC: $241,277 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $173,987 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $114,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetJALS Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetTORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORING ALLIANCE: $81,282 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetDDC CLINIC FOR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN: $78,245 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE: $58,987 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC: $28,996 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCamp Sue Osborn: $20,250 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetGEAUGA COUNTY HUNGER TASK FORCE: $8,466 over 1y, 4.7% 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.

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…United Way of Lake Co…Jerome T Osborne and …Wr & Floy a Sauey Fam…The Swagelok Foundati…The Covia FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Cleveland FoundationOH27.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Geauga County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Geauga County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 16 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $175k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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