· 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.
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.
The 22 grants below total $947,273 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,057,080 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $109,807 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $204k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $723k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC | $135,000 |
| LIFELINE INC | $116,000 |
| FORBES HOUSE | $106,200 |
| SALVATION ARMY COMMUN CTR | $84,438 |
| CROSSROADS HEALTH | $82,100 |
| ECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK OF LC | $79,000 |
| LAKE COUNTY YMCA | $69,500 |
| LAKE-GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTER | $51,200 |
| LAKE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $35,000 |
| CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER | $30,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT LAKE COUNTY | $26,700 |
| SALVATION ARMY SERVICE UNITS | $24,000 |
| NAMI LAKE COUNTY | $16,100 |
| LAKE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $15,000 |
| TORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORING ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
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 +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- LCLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +243%
- FHFORBES HOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $792k · revenue +49%
- LFLIFELINE FOR THE EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $764k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- 5A5000 AND UNDERone grant, 2017 · $35k
- GWGRTR WEST RES COUNCIL BOY SCOUTSone grant, 2017 · $27k
- NLNAMI LAKE COUNTY OHone grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue +24%
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.
The mission of lakeshore is to enhance the ability of persons with mental and physical disabilities to live as independently as possible through acquisition of skills and utilization of services that promote each individual's self…
To empower people with disabilities to lead self-directed lives as valued members of the community.
To respond to the healthcare needs of our communities with an integrated array of quality services and actively remove barriers to wellness. the lakes community health center, inc. is proud to be a community health center (chc) working to…
Family service of lake county provides counseling, education, and support services to strenghten individuals and families in need to succeed in school, at work, in relationships, and within our community.
Lakeshore community health care provides access to comprehensive, integrated health care, regardless of ability to pay, eliminating health disparities among the underserved.
Our goal is to provide our tenants with a gracious lifestyle in a safe, secure, residential setting. we will promote programs which encourage you to practice a healthy lifestyle. we will treat those we serve with dignity and respect. your…
It is the mission of lake hospital system to provide comprehensive health care services to the residents of lake county and neighboring communities in partnership with those who share a commitment to local access, healing with compassion,…
Uniting people and resources to advance the health, education, and financial stability of our communities.
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…
Fostering safety, hope and healing through advocacy, intervention and education; direct services for those affectede by domestic violence, abused children, sexual assault victims and general crimes; shelter for women and children; youth…
Lakeview health services is dedicated to helping those we serve identify and achieve personally meaningful life goals and to realize their full potential. we provide safe, affordable housing and support to persons recovering from mental…
Promote the health and independence of lake county, il, older adults
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Pride of Northeast Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lgbtq Lake County. 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 47 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 — 8% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 47 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 LAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FORBES HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE FOR THE EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMERS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE GEAUGA RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds TORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PRIDE OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Sue Osborn ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS FOR LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE HEALTH DISTRICT FUND ↗
- Who funds Beacon Health ↗
- Who funds LAKE-GEAUGA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds NAMI LAKE COUNTY OH ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds LGBTQ LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds THE LAKELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAIR HOUSING RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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
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 Lake County 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.