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United Way of Greater Lorain County Inc

To lead measurable community transformation, creating a better life for all, by connecting community partners through collective impact in youth opportunity, health community, financial security, and community resiliency.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$3.8MHuman Services$3.2MHealth$1.6MRecreation & Sports$628kEmployment$300kFood & Nutrition$207kYouth Development$131kCrime & Legal$86kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $857,966 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,013,319 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $155,353 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 $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $182k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $643k
$47,252
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HORIZON EDUCATION CENTER$160,000
NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE$121,250
KENDAL AT OBERLIN$80,000
LORAIN COUNTY GENERAL HEALTH DISTRICT$79,593
CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION$78,252
OBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL$68,824
SALVATION ARMY LORAIN$54,917
SALVATION ARMY ELYRIA$48,587
NORTH RIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY CARE$47,252
LORAIN COUNTY OFFICE ON AGING$33,494
COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICES$28,102
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO$12,117
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND$12,000
GREATER CLEVELAND FOODBANK$9,150
FRIENDSHIP APL$6,840
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $134k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $106k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $81k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORP: $79k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $78k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $66k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $64k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $61k → 17%Catholic Charities Corporation: $59k → 17%NORTH RIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY CARE: $34k → 13%COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICES: $28k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $82k → 17%KENDAL AT OBERLIN: $92k → 13%EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS: $85k → 17%LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $31k → 13%EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES: $98k → 13%EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES: $98k → 13%EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS: $95k → 13%OBERLIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $109k → 13%EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES: $90k → 13%KENDAL AT OBERLIN: $103k → 13%EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS: $87k → 13%OBERLIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $94k → 13%EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS: $86k → 13%OBERLIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $93k → 13%KENDAL AT OBERLIN: $91k → 13%OBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL: $84k → 13%KENDAL AT OBERLIN: $80k → 13%OBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL: $69k → 13%OBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL: $65k → 13%OBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL: $62k → 13%OBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL: $61k → 13%OBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL: $58k → 13%OBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL: $56k → 13%Oberlin Community Service Council: $43k → 13%COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICES: $34k → 13%COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICES: $28k → 13%COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICES: $28k → 13%COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICES: $25k → 13%COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICES: $25k → 13%COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICES: $22k → 13%NORTH RIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY CARE: $48k → 13%NORTH RIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY CARE: $47k → 13%NORTH RIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY CARE: $41k → 13%NORTH RIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY CARE: $27k → 13%North Ridgeville Community Care: $26k → 13%NORTH RIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY CARE: $25k → 13%OBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL: $93k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.9M · 25 repeat orgs$178k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
10

Total granted

$9.9M
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+170%

Still filing today

80%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther

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

  • HE
    HORIZON EDUCATION CENTERS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +173%
  • NA
    NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +151%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $728k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND
    one grant, 2017 · $82k · revenue +15%
  • LC
    LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $31k · revenue +237%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTH CENTRAL
    one grant, 2018 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

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…

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3
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights
4
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…

Philanthropy
5
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
6
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
7
Handson Central Ohio Inc

To align community resources and generate insights that strengthen central ohio.

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8
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement
9
Ashland Assisted Living Inc

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
10
Literary Cleveland

Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.

Education
11
Legal Aid of Western Ohio Inc

Legal aid of western ohio, inc. (lawo) is a non-profit law firm that champions equity and justice through client-centered community collaboration and transformative legal advocacy.

Crime & Legal
12
United Way of Cleveland County Inc

The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is The Sculpture Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FoundationsUnion Member BenefitsSenior Care and Hospice Ser…Early Childhood Care CentersMember Recreation ClubsSenior Affordable HousingAnimal Rescue and CareCommunity Food & Neighborho…Healthcare Systems and Foun…Northeast Ohio Community De…Arts & Culture Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr17%0%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr18%41%35–55yr19%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr17%0%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr18%45%35–55yr19%42%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/37
the rest of the field
13%
1,434/11,232

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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HORIZON EDUCATION CENTERS — $1,461,691 · OtherHORIZON EDUCATION CENTERSLORAIN COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS — $1,437,799 · OtherLORAIN COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONSTHE SALVATION ARMY — $1,075,315 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYHORIZON EDUCATION CENTER — $257,208 · OtherHORIZON EDUCATION CENTERLORAIN COUNTY OFFICE ON AGING — $170,449 · Other+15 more — $354,212 · Other+15 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION — $727,724 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATIONEL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INC — $639,661 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INCOBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL — $591,811 · Human ServicesOBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCILKENDAL AT OBERLIN — $383,736 · Human ServicesKENDAL AT OBERLINOBERLIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER — $311,923 · Human ServicesOBERLIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERNORTH RIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY CARE INC — $283,205 · Human ServicesNORTH RIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY CARE INCAVONAVON LAKE COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICES INC — $190,930 · Human ServicesAVONAVON LAKE COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERV…+4 more — $197,020 · Human Services+4 moreNEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE — $1,391,438 · Recreation & SportsNEIGHBORHOOD AL…WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY — $300,000 · EnvironmentSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — $177,131 · Food & NutritionGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $30,027 · Food & NutritionFRIENDSHIP ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE — $65,955 · AnimalsAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC — $26,775 · Religion
Other$4,756,674Human Services$3,326,010Recreation & Sports$1,391,438Environment$300,000Food & Nutrition$207,158Animals$65,955Religion$26,775

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHORIZON EDUCATION CENTERS — $1,461,691 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE — $1,391,438 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION — $727,724 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetEL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INC — $639,661 over 7y, 13% of budgetOBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL — $591,811 over 9y, 9.9% of budgetKENDAL AT OBERLIN — $383,736 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOBERLIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER — $311,923 over 4y, 21% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY — $300,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH RIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY CARE INC — $283,205 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetAVONAVON LAKE COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICES INC — $190,930 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — $177,131 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLORAIN COUNTY OFFICE ON AGING — $170,449 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetHands On Northeast Ohio — $109,556 over 2y, 22% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND — $86,247 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND — $82,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLESSING HOUSE — $77,626 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE — $65,955 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHM Housing Development Corporation — $40,510 over 4y, 11% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $30,027 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC — $26,775 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLORAIN COUNTY ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC — $19,964 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF LORAIN COUNTY — $15,404 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY — $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $11,401 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ELYRIA OH — $6,552 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $5,942 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCULPTURE CENTER — $5,590 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCLEVELAND LEADERSHIP CENTER — $5,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Nord Family Found…The Nordson Corporati…Community West Founda…The Stocker FoundationNorthwest Charitable …The Cleveland Foundat…Lakeland Community Fo…The Cleveland Clinic …The Cleveland Clinic …Norton Family Foundat…Miraldi Family Pvt Fdn
Community Foundation of Lorain CountyOH40.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Lorain County · The Nord Family Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Stocker Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Lakeland Community Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · Norton Family Foundation · Miraldi Family Pvt Fdn

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 Greater Lorain County Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

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    How do I get to United Way of Greater Lorain County Inc?

    Find your warmest path to United Way of Greater Lorain County Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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