Ohio · Public charity
United Way of Lake County Inc
United way of lake county, along with its mission to "measurably improve the quality of people's lives in lake county", provides the most effective channel through which the community may participate in a voluntary, cooperative effort to identify, evaluate, support and fund current human service needs in lake county. United way of lake…
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $947k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $26,700
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $135,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations United Way of Lake County Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $937k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $1.0M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $879k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $852k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $783k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $1.1M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $993k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $1.1M | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake County Free Clinic Inc | $1,160,703 | 9 | 24% |
| The Salvation Army | $911,942 | 9 | n/a |
| Forbes House | $792,325 | 9 | 15% |
| Lifeline for the Empowerment and Development of Consumers Inc | $764,352 | 9 | 8% |
| Crossroads Health | $695,996 | 9 | 1% |
| Ecumenical Shelter Network of Lake County Inc | $644,411 | 9 | 7% |
| Lake County Young Men's Christian Association | $575,725 | 9 | 1% |
| Lake Geauga Recovery Centers Inc | $546,167 | 9 | 2% |
| Lake County Council on Aging Inc | $448,377 | 8 | 3% |
| Torchlight Youth Mentoring Alliance | $252,135 | 9 | 11% |
Show all 37 grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($227k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Lake County Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Jerome T Osborne and Georgeanne S Osborne Charitable Trust · The Swagelok Foundation · United Way of Geauga County · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · Avery Dennison Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return
How this is measured
About United Way of Lake County Inc
- How much does United Way of Lake County Inc give?
- United Way of Lake County Inc reported 22 itemized grants totaling $947,273, out of $1,057,080 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Lake County Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (40%), Health (37%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
- Who are United Way of Lake County Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lake County Free Clinic Inc ($1.2M), The Salvation Army ($912k), Forbes House ($792k).
- Does United Way of Lake County Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Lake County Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, Jerome T Osborne and Georgeanne S Osborne Charitable Trust, The Swagelok Foundation.
- Where is United Way of Lake County Inc based?
- United Way of Lake County Inc is based in OH.
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