· Public charity
United Way of Jefferson County
To increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another through the support of local united way agencies.
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 $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $111k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A CARING PLACE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $15,833 |
| OHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER | $15,400 |
| ALIVE INC | $15,000 |
| OHIO VALLEY YOUTH NETWORK | $14,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL | $13,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS LAKE TO RIVER CHAPTER | $13,000 |
| TORONTO SERVICES COMMITTEE | $12,500 |
| SMITHFIELD FRIENDS EVANGELICAL CHURCH FOOD PANTRY | $12,000 |
| A CHILDS PLACE CASA | $7,500 |
| FAMILY RECOVERY CENTER | $7,500 |
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, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 8 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
- AIALIVE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $158k · revenue +30%
- OVOHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $148k · revenue +218%
- ACA CARING PLACE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +191%
Funded once
- CRCITY RESCUE MISSION INCone grant, 2017 · $7k
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Coalition of Care of Greater Cincinnati exists to mobilize churches and to inspire volunteers to care for vulnerable children and fragile families.
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
Columbus alliance for battered women provides emergency shelter, security, crisis intervention, and advocacy for adult and child victims of domestic violence.
To provide shelter for victims of domestic violence
Provide adoption, counseling services, and refugee assistance
To coordinate a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to child abuse cases. To provide private forensic interviews and medical exams in a child-friendly environment.
To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.
To promote Christian child care and foster care networks in developing nations
Prevent domestic violence in auglaize co. ohio
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
The cleveland rape crisis center is a non-profit organization which supports survivors of sexual violence, promotes healing and prevention, and advocates for social change.
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jefferson County Community Action Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Childs Place Casa Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 20 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 ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds A CARING PLACE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Ohio Valley Youth Network ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RECOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds A CHILDS PLACE CASA LTD ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF BLACK DIAMOND COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds VAGABOND MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EAST LIVERPOOL OHIO ↗
- Who funds CITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
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: Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · John C Williams Charitable Tr 8024 · Amazonsmile 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 Jefferson 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.