· Public charity
United Way of Greater Stark County
We build our community's capacity to alleviate the impact of poverty and empower families to unleash their potential.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 55 grants below total $2,973,614 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,665,657 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $692,043 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 $10k9 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $535k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+1 grant · $458k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STARK COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER | $457,898 |
| YWCA- Canton | $219,855 |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD RESOURCE CENTER | $219,417 |
| Canton For All People | $196,236 |
| CHILD AND ADOLESCENT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $181,165 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT | $149,225 |
| JR COLEMAN Family Services Corp | $143,220 |
| ACCESS HEALTH STARK COUNTY | $127,279 |
| Alliance for Children & Families Inc | $92,788 |
| AHEAD | $75,840 |
| MARGARET B SHIPLEY CHILD HEALTH CLINIC INC | $74,034 |
| COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC | $73,783 |
| COMMQUEST SERVICES INC | $69,447 |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION ALLIANCE | $69,120 |
| Access Health Stark County Inc | $65,729 |
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 (FY17–25, $7.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +36% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CANTON OHIO9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +33%
- JRJ R COLEMAN FAMILY SERVICES CORP9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +72%
- DVDOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +41%
Funded once
- BABE A BETTER ME FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $11k
- AFALLIANCE FAMILY YMCAone grant, 2023 · $10k
- GIGrow Into Greatnessone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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.
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.
Ending homelessness in stark county ohio.
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.
Assist the homeless to rise out of poverty
Organized for the purpose of creating, developing and effecting programs and projects designed to enhance the economic development of Allen, Auglaize, and Mercer Counties and its citizens, particularly to those areas of the community and…
Provide elderly services to allow persons to stay in their own homes
United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.
Serve the Youngstown area community with social, health, financial, strategic life advice, physical education and well-being services in addition to providing housing advice, food for the needy, program activities, and cultural activities.…
Community Mental Health, Drug Abuse and Alcoholism Services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commquest Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Legacy Project of Stark. 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
62 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. 62 of the 89 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 YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CANTON OHIO ↗
- Who funds COMMQUEST SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds J R COLEMAN FAMILY SERVICES CORP ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD & ADOLESCENT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER CLEVELAND AND EAST CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF MASSILLON INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ALLIANCE OHIO ↗
- Who funds Early Childhood Education Alliance ↗
- Who funds Ahead Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPASS INC ↗
- Who funds Beacon Charitable Pharmacy Inc ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Central Stark County ↗
- Who funds CRISIS INTERVENTION AND RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CANTON FOR ALL PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds PACE DBA ALLIANCE AREA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Child Development Center of Alliance Ohio ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Massillon YMCA Of Western Stark County ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TRI COUNTY JOBS FOR OHIO'S GRADUATES ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE COMMUNITY PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds STARK COUNTY DISTRICT LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTARK FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc ↗
- Who funds STARKFRESH ↗
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: Stark Community Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · Health Foundation of Greater Massillon · Timken Foundation of Canton · Greater Alliance Foundation Inc · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · William & Minnette Goldsmith Foundation · North Canton Medical Foundation · Diebold Employees Charitable Fd Ta · Christ 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 Greater Stark 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.
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