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United Way of Lake County Inc

To unite leadership and resources for lasting change, by focusing on meeting the financial, social, and educational needs of families and individuals to improve their quality of life.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$3.0MHealth$1.6MPhilanthropy$894kEducation$461kCrime & Legal$447kRecreation & Sports$242kHousing & Shelter$219kPublic Benefit$201kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $137,397 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,595,979 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,458,582 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$18,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HACES$51,000
ROUND LAKE PARK DISTRICT$39,000
FAMILY FIRST CENTER OF LAKE COUNTY$18,500
MOTHER'S TRUST FOUNDATION$11,042
UNITED WAY OF KENOSHA COUNTY$10,170
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$7,685
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERFACE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICE: $75k → 10%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $18k → 11%UNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY: $7k → 12%HACES: $55k → 8%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $14k → 11%HACES: $51k → 8%FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES CHICAGOLAND: $68k → 8%Family Focus Inc: $8k → 14%One Hope United - Northern Region: $256k → 8%YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING: $12k → 8%ONE HOPE UNITEDHOME VISITING ALLOCATION: $230k → 8%ONE HOPE UNITEDHOME VISITING ALLOCATION: $228k → 8%COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING: $10k → 8%ONE HOPE UNITEDHOME VISITING ALLOCATION: $228k → 8%LIBERTYVILLE TOWNSHIP: $10k → 8%ONE HOPE UNITED - NORTHERN REGION: $175k → 8%PADS LAKE COUNTY INC: $47k → 8%ONE HOPE WU LKBF 2021 GRANTEE: $20k → 8%CYN COUNSELING CENTER: $19k → 8%Community Youth Network Inc: $12k → 8%Mano a Mano Family Resource Center: $33k → 8%MANO-A-MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $32k → 8%MANO-A-MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $32k → 8%MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $32k → 8%MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $24k → 8%MANO-A-MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $23k → 8%ROUND LAKE AREA SCHOOLS DISTRICT: $22k → 8%MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $16k → 8%BEACON PLACE NFP: $34k → 8%BEACON PLACE NFP: $30k → 8%Christian Outreach of Lutherans: $14k → 8%HACES: $10k → 8%BEACON PLACE NFP: $9k → 8%CHRISTIAN OUTREACH OF LUTHERANS: $7k → 8%ROBERTI COMMUNITY HOUSE: $48k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $17k → 8%MOTHER'S TRUST FOUNDATION: $12k → 8%ROBERTI COMMUNITY HOUSE: $11k → 8%MOTHER'S TRUST FOUNDATION: $11k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $11k → 8%FILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $11k → 8%ROBERTI COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%UW SOUTH CENTRAL: $8k → 8%Tri-Con Child Care Center: $11k → 8%TRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER: $11k → 8%TRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER: $11k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.5M · 52 repeat orgs$904k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
46

Total granted

$6.5M
$904k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+23%

Still filing today

88%
72%

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
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthEmploymentOther

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

  • OH
    One Hope United
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +170%
  • ZS
    ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $409k · revenue +27%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago
    6× · 2017–2022 · $398k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • DC
    DUPAGE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
    one grant, 2024 · $201k
  • Interface Children Family Servicesgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue +86%
  • NI
    NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $71k · revenue +8%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
2
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

—
3
Lake Area United Way Inc

Uniting people and resources to advance the health, education, and financial stability of our communities.

Philanthropy
4
United Way of Langlade County Inc

United Way uses its global reach and local presence to build stronger, more resilient communities where everyone can thrive. We work to improve the health, education, and economic mobility of every person in every community we serve.

Philanthropy
5
United Way of Central Illinois Inc

The united way of central illinois, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation with a mission to improve lives by uniting our community to adress the basic needs, education, financial stability and health of every person. vision: building…

Philanthropy
6
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
7
United Way of Lapeer County

To unite the community by developing resources to meet the community needs.

Philanthropy
8
United Way of Cleveland County Inc

The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.

Philanthropy
9
United Way of Clinton County Iowa

To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.

—
10
Central County United Way

Central County United Way connects people, resources and ideas to create a thriving community characterized by productive youth programs, senior services, healthy people and the community in which we live.

Philanthropy
11
United Way Manitowoc County Inc

United way's mission is to improve lives.

Philanthropy
12
Lakes Area United Way

The mission of crow wing county united way inc. is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community. it does this each day through the partnerships created throughout the communities it serves. whether it is board members,…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Decatur and Mid Il and the most unlike its peers is The John D and Minnie R Schneider Charitable Trust. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyUnited Way AffiliatesImmigrant Worker SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsCancer Support ServicesYouth Development ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Arts CentersYouth Development CentersCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity Food PantriesElementary Literacy TutoringChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Senior Support ServicesDomestic Violence Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr13%4%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr22%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr22%26%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/99
the rest of the field
12%
8,888/72,260

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.

04the grantee network

82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 99 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/82
Grantees still filing
56/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

One Hope United — $1,183,757 · Human ServicesOne Hope UnitedMANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $191,536 · Human ServicesMANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CEN…Hispanic American Community Education & Services — $115,525 · Human ServicesHispanic American Community Edu…Mothers Trust Foundation — $80,519 · Human ServicesInterface Children Family Services — $74,700 · Human ServicesThe Beacon Place NFP — $73,069 · Human ServicesThe Roberti Community House — $69,524 · Human Services+10 more — $285,250 · Human Services+10 moreCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago — $397,607 · OtherCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese…LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER — $299,686 · OtherLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTERNICASA NFP — $267,653 · OtherNICASA NFPDUPAGE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES — $200,600 · OtherDUPAGE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SER…ERIE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER — $139,507 · OtherERIE FAMILY HEALTH CENTERCounty of Lake — $115,000 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY — $84,452 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ROUND LAKE AREA PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $242,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ROUND LAKE AREA PARKS …+38 more — $737,988 · Other+38 morePERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC — $888,713 · HealthPERSONAL ASSIST…PADS Lake County Inc — $111,968 · HealthPADS Lake Count…+2 more — $35,358 · HealthUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $253,643 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …UNITED WAY OF WILL COUNTY — $109,326 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …UNITED WAY OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC — $68,645 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC — $49,199 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …UNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY — $45,733 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY — $32,908 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID IL — $25,780 · Philanthropy+12 more — $179,551 · Philanthropy+12 moreZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER — $409,469 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $9,130 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY — $92,688 · EducationWaukegan To College NFP — $86,307 · EducationCristo Rey St Martin College Prep — $58,650 · EducationHIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL — $50,948 · EducationAffirm Leadership Christian Academy INC — $37,000 · EducationCOMP-U-DOPT INC — $15,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationREADING POWER INC — $172,793 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Lake County — $108,666 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTHAGE CULINARY PROGRAM INC — $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $8,500 · Youth Development
Human Services$2,073,880Other$2,484,493Health$1,036,039Philanthropy$764,785Crime & Legal$418,599Education$345,593Youth Development$299,959

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOne Hope United — $1,183,757 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC — $888,713 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER — $409,469 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago — $397,607 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER — $299,686 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetNICASA NFP — $267,653 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $253,643 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $191,536 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetREADING POWER INC — $172,793 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetHispanic American Community Education & Services — $115,525 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetPADS Lake County Inc — $111,968 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WILL COUNTY — $109,326 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lake County — $108,666 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY — $92,688 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWaukegan To College NFP — $86,307 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY — $84,452 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetMothers Trust Foundation — $80,519 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetFamily First Center of Lake County — $74,919 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetThe Beacon Place NFP — $73,069 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $71,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Roberti Community House — $69,524 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC — $68,645 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES CHICAGOLAND — $67,550 over 1y, 36% of budgetFOX VALLEY UNITED WAY — $56,817 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL — $50,948 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetARDEN SHORE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $50,076 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC — $49,199 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY — $45,733 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY INC — $39,909 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetAffirm Leadership Christian Academy INC — $37,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY — $32,908 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK INC — $31,744 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRosalind Franklin University Health Clinics — $28,850 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID IL — $25,780 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKids Above All Illinois — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN — $22,931 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $22,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KANKAKEE COUNTY INC — $21,380 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $20,426 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCURT'S CAFE — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAS BEST CHARITIES — $19,311 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING — $18,921 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MCLEAN COUNTY — $18,900 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION — $17,900 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetZion Benton Children's Service — $15,497 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING — $15,006 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMP-U-DOPT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS — $14,974 over 2y, 2.9% of budget
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.

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.

The Lake County Commu…John and Kathleen Sch…Trustmark FoundationNorthwestern Memorial…Healthcare Foundation…United Way of Metropo…Give N KindThe Chicago Community…First Bank Chicago Fo…AbbVie FoundationThe Gorter Family Fou…Baxter International …
The Lake County Community FoundationIL69.6× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lake County Community Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Trustmark Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Give N Kind · The Chicago Community Trust · First Bank Chicago Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Gorter Family Foundation · Baxter International 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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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