· Public charity
United Way of Greater Toledo
UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO unites the caring power of people to improve lives.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $119k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $985k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $663k
- $250k+2 grants · $933k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DONOR DESIGNATIONS TO AGENCIES - UNDER 5000 | $544,612 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION | $388,751 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $141,527 |
| UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN | $97,977 |
| YWCA NORTHWEST OHIO | $86,818 |
| YMCAJCC OF GREATER TOLEDO | $82,618 |
| BEACH HOUSE FAMILY SHELTER INC | $75,419 |
| FAMILY AND CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CENTER | $71,821 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO | $53,303 |
| HOSPITAL COUNCIL OF NORTHWEST OHIO | $53,251 |
| CHERRY STREET MISSION | $41,823 |
| OTTAWA COUNTY TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC | $41,063 |
| ZEPF CENTER | $40,254 |
| THE COCOON | $39,695 |
| HARBOR | $39,202 |
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 +15% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
134 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2025, 69 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 FY2025, 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
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +135%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +182%
- YOYWCA OF NORTHWEST OHIO9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +148%
Funded once
- PFPROMEDICA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue -50%
- GGGREATER GRACE CHRISTIAN CHURCH INCone grant, 2020 · $18k
- PFPOLLY FOX ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $17k
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.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Connect resources to important community needs. the organization focuses on the most important human service needs facing the community and uses a variety of methods to communicate with community members in order to priortize the issues…
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.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
United way of greater toledo unites the caring power of people to improve lives.
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
The mission of the united way alliance is to unite communities, contributors and human service agencies in a common goal to improve the quality of life in the greater mid-ohio valley.
United way's mission is to improve lives.
The mission of the united way of tuscarawascounty inc is to invest in local programs and services thateffectively improve the lives of tuscarawas county residents.
Uniting our community to empower individuals and families to thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brown Bag Food Project. 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 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
152 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. 152 of the 182 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 LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOLEDO AND THE TOLEDO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA COUNTY TRANSITIONAL HOUSING ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF TOLEDO INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL COUNCIL OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds DENTAL CENTER OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA COUNTY FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds BEACH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COCOON SHELTER ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO LUCAS COUNTY CARENET INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF WESTERN OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOFIA QUINTERO ART AND CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Toledo GROWs Inc ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Western Ohio ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF TOLEDO INC ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF TOLEDO INC ↗
- Who funds ZEPF CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO ↗
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: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · The Stranahan Supporting Organization · Toledo Classic Inc · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · Promedica Health System Inc · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · The Oswald Supporting Organization · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · Andersons Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund
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 Toledo 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.
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
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.