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United Way of Medina County at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

United Way of Medina County

To mobilize people and resources by creating solutions that improve lives and our community.

$20k
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Health$758kFood & Nutrition$103kHuman Services$95kYouth Development$77kEducation$46kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kOther$0
02FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT COUNTY$20,000
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 (FY17–19, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $40k → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $33k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORP: $16k → 17%CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $33k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORP: $13k → 17%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$912k · 10 repeat orgs$197k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2020, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$912k
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+35%

Still filing today

90%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AP
    ALTERNATIVE PATHS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $328k · revenue +83%
  • BJ
    BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU
    2× · 2018–2019 · $146k · revenue +8%
  • FM
    FEEDING MEDINA COUNTY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $103k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • O
    OhioGuidestonegraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $108k · revenue +35%
  • SB
    SOLUTIONS BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $54k
  • RC
    RAPE CRISIS CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +53%
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
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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2
Pathway Caring for Children

Our mission is to help children and families realize the possibilities of their lives through foster care, adoption, and mental health. we serve over 1,700 children and families in 14 northeast ohio counties.

Health
3
The Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…

Health
4
Family and Children's Services of Centra

To transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.

Human Services
5
Klamath Child & Family Treatment Center Inc

Our values and mission vision: sharing the power of mental wellbeing mission: providing compassionate care throughout our community core values: dignity - we treat everyone as individuals and with respect. stewardship - we are trusted…

Health
6
Maumee Valley Guidance Center Inc

To provide behavioral healthcare services for the continual enhancement of the quality of life across the life span, emphasizing treatment, community involvement, and innovative programs.

Health
7
Mercer County Behavioral Health Commission Inc

The mercer county behavioral health commission, inc. is a private, non-profit organization that assists individuals and families experiencing substance abuse, mental illness, intellectual disabilities, or developmental challenges through…

Human Services
8
Compass Family & Community Services

Compass helps individuals and families build better lives and a stronger community.

Human Services
9
Concern - Professional Services for Children Youth and Families

Concern's mission: concern brings hope, offers opportunity, and inspires change. concern's vision: to encourage growth and promote positive healthy lives.

Human Services
10
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
11
Sjo Kids Inc

Newpath child & family solutions (formerly st. joseph orphanage) is a comprehensive behavioral health and educational treatment agency that helps children and their families on the road to recovery and success by igniting hope and changing…

Human Services
12
Scioto Paint Valley Mental Health Center

To provide mental health, substance abuse, and integrated care services to residents of ross, pike, pickaway, fayette, and highland counties in ohio.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Guidance & Family Solutions; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Medina County District Library Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALTERNATIVE PATHS INC: $327,500 · HealthALTERNATIVE PATHS INCBELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $145,987 · HealthBELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAUOhioGuidestone: $108,000 · HealthOhioGuidestone+1 more: $15,000 · HealthBig Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc: $77,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sister…THE SALVATION ARMY: $65,831 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSOLUTIONS BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC: $54,350 · OtherSOLUTIONS BEHAVIORAL HE…SUMMER REINFORCEMENT PROGRAM: $29,000 · OtherSUMMER REINFORCEMENT PR…CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $106,800 · Human ServicesCHILD GUIDANC…CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $29,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHAR…FEEDING MEDINA COUNTY: $102,500 · Food & NutritionFEEDING ME…UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $20,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF MEDINA COUNTY DISTRICT LIBRARY INC: $17,200 · EducationMEDINA COUNTY POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE: $11,000 · Youth Development
Health$596,487Other$226,181Human Services$135,800Food & Nutrition$102,500Philanthropy$20,000Education$17,200Youth Development$11,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALTERNATIVE PATHS INC: $327,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetBELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $145,987 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $108,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $106,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFEEDING MEDINA COUNTY: $102,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Summit Medina and Stark Counties Inc: $77,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSOLUTIONS BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC: $54,350 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $29,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER REINFORCEMENT PROGRAM: $29,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MEDINA COUNTY DISTRICT LIBRARY INC: $17,200 over 2y, 32% of budgetRAPE CRISIS CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMEDINA COUNTY POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE: $11,000 over 2y, 3.0% 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.

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.

United Way of Summit …Akron Community Found…The Westfield Insuran…
United Way of Summit and MedinaOH15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Summit and Medina · Akron Community Foundation · The Westfield Insurance 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 Medina County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Medina County. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 14 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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