· Public charity
United Way of Knox County Ohio Inc
United way of knox county assesses the needs of knox county and strategically invests donor contributions into programs that target community needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $646,189 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $661,739 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,550 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $395k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KNOX COUNTY HEADSTART INC | $135,035 |
| NEW DIRECTIONS DOMESTIC ABUSE SHELTER OF KNOX COUNTY INC | $82,000 |
| THE WINTER SANCTUARY INC | $60,000 |
| INTERCHURCH SOCIAL SERVICES OF KNOX COUNTY | $60,000 |
| THE FREEDOM CENTER | $58,000 |
| YMCA OF MOUNT VERNON | $47,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $39,500 |
| PUBLIC HEALTH PARTNERSHIP OF KNOX COUNTY | $37,500 |
| KNOX COUNTY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $18,000 |
| KNO-HO-CO- ASHLAND COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION | $16,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA- MUSKINGUM VALLEY COUNCIL | $14,000 |
| HOSPICE OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC | $12,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR FAMILIES OF KNOX COUNTY | $10,154 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS EAST-CENTAL OHIO CHAPTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +49% since the first grant, against -20% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 5 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 FY2024, 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
- KCKnox County Head Start Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +25%
- AAALCOHOL AND DRUG FREEDOM CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $663k · revenue +126%
- NDNEW DIRECTIONS THE DOMESTIC ABUSE SHELT AND RAPE CRISIS CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $630k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2018 · $25k
- KCKNOX COUNTY 4-H PLANNING COMMITTEEone grant, 2018 · $15k
- KCKNOX COMMUNITY HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +18%
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.
To provide affordable housing to low and moderate income persons in east tennessee through first-time homebuyer education; assist with mortgage loans, downpayments, and closing costs; build new single family housing; develop multi-family…
Kenosha community health center, inc.'s purpose is to provide primary care and referral health services to disadvantaged and underserved populations and promote and ensure that basic primary health services are accessible to uninsured and…
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
To advocate and provide opportunities in a dignified and respectful manner for the total well-being of individuals and families with special needs.
The mission of the organization is to develop teamwork among the social service agencies serving knox county and their constituencies in the interest of the financial support of such agencies, and the effective planning and execution of…
The mission of the foundation for knox community hospital is to establish and maintain relationships that generate philanthropic support for the hospital and to provide education and support for effective hospital advocacy and governance…
To provide public, individual, and group care for anyone living in the greater kenosha area. care shall be in the least restrictive manner and will include group type treatment facilities, as well as other services to help people in need…
To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.
The organization provides primary and preventive health services to the area's under-served and most vulnerable populations through high quality clinical care with a demonstrated impact on the health outcomes of the communities we serve.
Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of northeast ohio residents by providing comprehensive and excellent health care services in a sensitive and caring environment.
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…
To provide high quality care and set the standards of excellence for those we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Knox Community Hospital and the most unlike its peers is HopeNow. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 30 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 Knox County Head Start Inc ↗
- Who funds ALCOHOL AND DRUG FREEDOM CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS THE DOMESTIC ABUSE SHELT AND RAPE CRISIS CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE WINTER SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MOUNT VERNON OHIO ↗
- Who funds BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE PARTNERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC HEALTH PARTNERSHIP OF KNOX COUNTY ↗
- Who funds INTERCHURCH SOCIAL SERVICES OF KNOX ↗
- Who funds KNO-HO-CO-ASHLAND COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MUSKINGUM VALLEY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE PLAY-SPACE INITIATIVE SPI ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds Knox County Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERBURG SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KNOX COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HopeNow ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND PARENTING PLUS ↗
- Who funds KNOX COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF MID-OHIO ↗
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: Knox County Foundation · The Ariel Foundation · Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc · Columbus Foundation · Elizabeth Ring Mather William Gwinn Mather Fund · Licking County Foundation Inc · Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Knox County Ohio Inc 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.