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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.

$126k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$16k
Largest
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.

Human Services$397kHealth$252kFood & Nutrition$227kHousing & Shelter$164kPublic Safety & Disaster$141kCrime & Legal$112kYouth Development$80kReligion$8k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $111k
$13,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$424k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FAMILY RECOVERY CENTER$7,500
A CHILDS PLACE CASA$7,500
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $15k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $14k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $13k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $12k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $11k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $11k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $11k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $11k → 19%JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $10k → 19%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 18 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
2

Total granted

$1.4M
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther
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

  • AI
    ALIVE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $158k · revenue +30%
  • OV
    OHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $148k · revenue +218%
  • AC
    A CARING PLACE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +191%

Funded once

  • CR
    CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
Columbus Alliance for Battered Women Inc dba Hope Harbour

Columbus alliance for battered women provides emergency shelter, security, crisis intervention, and advocacy for adult and child victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
2
Coalition of Care Greater Cincinnati

Coalition of Care of Greater Cincinnati exists to mobilize churches and to inspire volunteers to care for vulnerable children and fragile families.

Youth Development
3
Casa Viva

To promote Christian child care and foster care networks in developing nations

International
4
Casa of Allegheny County

To recruit and train community members to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children.

Civil Rights
5
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc

To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.

Crime & Legal
6
Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc

Provide adoption, counseling services, and refugee assistance

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7
Child Advocacy Center

To combat child sexual and physical abuse by providing services to children and families in a safe enviroment.

Human Services
8
The Childrens Advocacy Center of Cleveland County

To coordinate a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to child abuse cases. To provide private forensic interviews and medical exams in a child-friendly environment.

Crime & Legal
9
Ywca of Central Virginia

The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.

Human Services
10
Children's Choice Inc

Children's choice is a christian social service agency, which provides specialized community-based services. children's choice serves as a bridge for individuals who are in need of the re-integrative process of family living. intensive,…

Human Services
11
Life Crisis Center Inc

To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.

Human Services
12
St Clair County Child Advocacy Center

To provide a coordinated, child focused, multi-disciplinary response to child sexual and serious physical abuse in st clair, monroe, and randolph counties.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family & Community Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Neighborhood House. 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

15 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. 15 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALIVE INC: $157,833 · OtherALIVE INCAMERICAN RED CROSS LAKE TO RIVER CHAPTER: $140,805 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS LAKE TO RIVER CHAPTEREVANGELICAL FRIENDS CHURCH EASTERN REGION: $122,952 · OtherEVANGELICAL FRIENDS CHURCH EASTERN REGIONTORONTO SERVICES COMMITTEE: $105,163 · OtherTORONTO SERVICES COMMITTEEST JOSEPH ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH WEBA OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY: $104,126 · OtherST JOSEPH ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH WEBA OUTREACH FOOD PANTRYMINGO JUNCTION SOCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE: $56,320 · OtherMINGO JUNCTION SOCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEEYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $31,604 · Other+3 more: $17,233 · OtherOHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER: $147,550 · HealthOHIO VALLEY HEALTH C…FAMILY RECOVERY CENTER: $56,178 · HealthFAMILY RECOVERY CENT…COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC: $48,342 · HealthCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL…JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $106,235 · Human ServicesJEFFERSON CO…FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $42,575 · Human ServicesFAMILY & COM…A CARING PLACE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $112,144 · Crime & LegalA CARING …Ohio Valley Youth Network: $70,075 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF BLACK DIAMOND COUNCIL INC: $9,875 · Youth DevelopmentVAGABOND MISSIONS: $7,850 · Youth DevelopmentA CHILDS PLACE CASA LTD: $44,025 · Civil Rights
Other$736,036Health$252,070Human Services$148,810Crime & Legal$112,144Youth Development$87,800Civil Rights$44,025

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALIVE INC: $157,833 over 9y, 6.9% of budgetOHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER: $147,550 over 9y, 13% of budgetA CARING PLACE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $112,144 over 9y, 15% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $106,235 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetOhio Valley Youth Network: $70,075 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetFAMILY RECOVERY CENTER: $56,178 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC: $48,342 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetA CHILDS PLACE CASA LTD: $44,025 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $42,575 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $31,604 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF BLACK DIAMOND COUNCIL INC: $9,875 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVAGABOND MISSIONS: $7,850 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EAST LIVERPOOL OHIO: $7,400 over 2y, 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Esther N Simmons Charitable TrustPA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · John C Williams Charitable Tr 8024 · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Jefferson County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Jefferson County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 20 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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