· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $503,320 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $531,320 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,000 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 $10k8 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $267k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARION MATTERS | $70,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $55,000 |
| MARION SHELTER PROGRAM | $50,000 |
| OTHER GRANTS LESS THAN 5000 | $38,120 |
| MID-OHIO YOUTH MENTORING | $30,000 |
| TURNING POINT | $25,000 |
| VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS | $20,000 |
| MARION VOICES FOLKLIFE | $17,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO | $16,250 |
| AMERICANRED CROSS | $15,000 |
| HOMELAND TECHNOLOGY GROUP LLC | $15,000 |
| PATCHWORKS HOUSE | $15,000 |
| YMCA OF BUCYRUS-TIFFIN | $12,500 |
| MOBILE MEALS OF MARION COUNTY | $12,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
36 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 7 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- MMMARION MATTERS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $264k · revenue +113%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2018–2025 · $226k · revenue +9%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $165k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- APAnita Pitman Recovert Centerone grant, 2019 · $23k
- ARALPHA RECOVERY 12 STEP PROGRAMone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue -30%
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue +81%
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 ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
To provide high quality affordable childcare to allow parents to find gainful employment.
Community Health Ohio - TLC LLC - Providing mental health services to adults who have been diagnosed with severe and persistent mental health needs in Butler County. Community Health Ohio -SRS LLC is committed to be the provider of choice…
Our mission is helping people help themselves to lead healthy and productive lives. communiyt outreach, inc.ofeers the most comphrehensiveset of intergrated social services in the mid-williamette valley. we serve an at-risk population of…
To increase choice, respect, ability and involvement. to serve marion county citizens who are developmentally disabled. services to the individuals include transportation, residential services, adult day habilitation services and…
The mission of the Marion County Childrens Alliance is to improve the lives of Marion County children. We do this through purpose, passion, partnership and presence.
Mid-ohio psychological services, inc. provides high-quality, cost- effective, culturally-sensitive, socially responsible, mental health, substance abuse, and support services to individuals and community organizations, while offering…
Mid central community action, inc's mission is to educate, equip, and empower people to achieve healthy relationships, finances, homes, and neighborhoods.
Compass helps individuals and families build better lives and a stronger community.
To enhance the lives of adults by assisting them to remain independent at home through a range of quality services.
The mission of the columbiana county mental health clinic is to improve the lives of individuals and families by meeting the behavioral health needs of our community. this is accomplished through: 1) excellent customer service, 2)…
Promoting growth and expansion of jobs and community benefits for marion city & county
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of Marion County Ohio (5107) and the most unlike its peers is Marion Adolescent Pregnancy Program Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 55 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 MARION SHELTER PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MARION MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED CITIZENS AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAI DBA TURNING POINT ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MARION COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds MID-OHIO YOUTH MENTORING ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING AND WELLNESS CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFETY CITY OF MARION OHIO ↗
- Who funds MARION ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CRAWFORD WORKS ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF MARION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MARION GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Marion County Ohio (5107) ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History ↗
- Who funds OHIO HEARTLAND COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds BUCYRUS BACKPACK PROGRAM LLC ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN STUDENTS INC ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Bucyrus ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PATCHWORKS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE AND FREEDOM COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE SARA BEEGLE CHILD DAY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BUCYRUS-TIFFIN INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL 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: Marion Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for Crawford County · Tiffin Seneca United Way Inc · Richland County Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 North Central 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.