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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 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 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $857,966, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,013,319 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $155,353 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.

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

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 (FY17–25, $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. Its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

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%
+34%

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
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

  • HE
    HORIZON EDUCATION CENTERS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +158%
  • 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 INC
    one grant, 2017 · $31k · revenue +18%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTH CENTRAL
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
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
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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2
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
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
Handson Central Ohio Inc

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

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5
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
6
Long Term Care Ombudsman

As mandated by the federal older americans act and ohio law, the mission of the long term care ombudsman program is to seek the resolution of problems and advocate for the rights of the home care consumers and residents of long- term care…

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7
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

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

Human Services
8
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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9
The Louisville Urban League Inc

As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.

Human Services
10
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
11
Ohio Living Communities

See schedule oohio living communities was founded in 1922 and was incorporated as an ohio non-profit corporation in 1959. the corporation's mission statement is as follows:our mission is to provide older adults with caring and quality…

Human Services
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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

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 Greater Lorain County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Greater Lorain County Inc. 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%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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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