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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.

$531k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fund
01

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.

02FY2025 · 26 grants

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
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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.

area typical 12%RED CROSS OF MARION COUNTY: $40k → 9%OPEN DOOR RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 9%FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $12k → 12%AMERICANRED CROSS: $24k → 9%OPEN DOOR RESOURCE CENTER: $13k → 9%YMCA OF BUCYRUS-TIFFIN: $13k → 12%RED CROSS OF MARION COUNTY: $23k → 9%OPEN DOOR RESOURCE CENTER: $9k → 9%RED CROSS OF MARION COUNTY: $21k → 9%AMERICANRED CROSS: $20k → 9%MARION MATTERS: $70k → 17%AMERICANRED CROSS: $20k → 9%HEART OF OHIO HOMELESS SHELTER: $66k → 17%AMERICANRED CROSS: $15k → 9%AMERICANRED CROSS: $15k → 9%RED CROSS CRWFORD COUNTY CHAPTER: $14k → 9%BUCYRUS BACKPACK PROGRAM: $11k → 15%RED CROSS CRWFORD COUNTY CHAPTER: $12k → 9%RED CROSS CRWFORD COUNTY CHAPTER: $10k → 9%TURNING POINT: $54k → 17%BUCYRUS BACKPACK PROGRAM: $9k → 15%MARION SHELTER PROGRAM: $50k → 17%MARION SHELTER PROGRAM: $50k → 17%HEART OF OHIO HOMELESS SHELTER: $48k → 17%MARION SHELTER PROGRAM: $47k → 17%MARION MATTERS: $35k → 17%MARION MATTERS: $35k → 17%HEART OF OHIO HOMELESS SHELTER: $32k → 17%MARION MATTERS: $30k → 17%TURNING POINT: $28k → 17%MARION MATTERS: $28k → 17%MARION MATTERS: $28k → 17%MARION MATTERS: $28k → 17%TURNING POINT: $25k → 17%TURNING POINT: $25k → 17%TURNING POINT: $24k → 17%TURNING POINT: $24k → 17%TURNING POINT: $23k → 17%MARION YMCA MARION MENTORS: $20k → 17%TURNING POINT: $19k → 17%HEART OF OHIO HOMELESS SHELTER: $19k → 17%OHIO HEARTLAND CAC: $14k → 17%MARION YMCA MARION MENTORS: $14k → 17%MARION FAMILY YMCA: $11k → 17%MARION YMCA MARION MENTORS: $11k → 17%MARION MATTERS: $10k → 17%MARION YMCA MARION MENTORS: $10k → 17%OHIO HEARTLAND CAC: $10k → 17%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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 36 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
12

Total granted

$3.5M
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+10%

Still filing today

72%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEmploymentPublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalOther

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

  • MM
    MARION MATTERS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $264k · revenue +113%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    8× · 2018–2025 · $226k · revenue +9%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $165k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • AP
    Anita Pitman Recovert Center
    one grant, 2019 · $23k
  • AR
    ALPHA RECOVERY 12 STEP PROGRAM
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue -30%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INCgraduated
    one 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.

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
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

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

Health
2
Columbus Area Childcare

To provide high quality affordable childcare to allow parents to find gainful employment.

Youth Development
3
Community Health Ohio

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…

Health
4
Community Outreach Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Marion County Services Inc

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…

6
Marion County Children's Alliance Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Mid-Ohio Psychological Services in

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…

8
Mid Central Community Action Inc

Mid central community action, inc's mission is to educate, equip, and empower people to achieve healthy relationships, finances, homes, and neighborhoods.

9
Compass Family & Community Services

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

Human Services
10
Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio

To enhance the lives of adults by assisting them to remain independent at home through a range of quality services.

Human Services
11
Columbiana County Mental Health Clinic

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)…

12
Greater Marion Community Area New Development-Can Do

Promoting growth and expansion of jobs and community benefits for marion city & county

Community Improvement

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCrawford County Community O…School Athletic BoostersDevelopmental Disability Se…Residential Care ServicesCommunity Health & Behavior…Marion Area Community Organ…Faith-Based Community Suppo…Community Mental Health Ser…
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 43 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number13%3%<5yr10%5%5–10yr23%14%10–20yr11%24%20–35yr17%24%35–55yr27%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value13%0%<5yr10%2%5–10yr23%19%10–20yr11%15%20–35yr17%36%35–55yr27%28%55yr+

The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/53
the rest of the field
9%
152/1,715

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

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 20172025, 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/41
Grantees still filing
23/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OTHER GRANTS LESS THAN 5000 — $467,532 · OtherOTHER GRANTS LESS THAN 5000BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MARION COUNTY — $215,183 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MARION COUNTYTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS — $157,773 · OtherTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF COLUMBUSMARION PUBLIC LIBRARY — $132,165 · OtherMARION PUBLIC LIBRARYMARION ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY PROGRAM INC — $87,841 · OtherCRAWFORD WORKS — $79,563 · OtherMOBILE MEALS OF MARION COUNTY INC — $73,463 · OtherMARION COUNTY JOB & FAMILY SERVICES — $65,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $62,784 · Other+21 more — $421,195 · Other+21 moreMARION SHELTER PROGRAM INC — $311,512 · Human ServicesMARION SHELTER PROGRAM INCMARION MATTERS INC — $264,343 · Human ServicesMARION MATTERS INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $225,691 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Const…CONCERNED CITIZENS AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAI DBA TURNING POINT — $222,105 · Human ServicesCONCERNED CITIZENS AGAINST VIOLENCE AGA…Young Mens Christian Association of Marion County Ohio (5107) — $65,200 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR RESOURCE CENTER — $59,460 · Human ServicesOHIO HEARTLAND COMMUNITY ACTION — $46,591 · Human Services+7 more — $108,210 · Human Services+7 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC — $165,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND …MID-OHIO YOUTH MENTORING — $144,781 · Youth DevelopmentMID-OHIO …COMMUNITY COUNSELING AND WELLNESS CENTERS INC — $100,618 · HealthALPHA RECOVERY 12 STEP PROGRAM — $9,094 · HealthAXESS FAMILY SERVICES INC — $8,000 · HealthNAMI NATL ALLIANCE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS — $5,850 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $5,500 · HealthSAFETY CITY OF MARION OHIO — $89,907 · Public Safety & DisasterMARION GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC — $73,451 · EmploymentMARCA INDUSTRIES INC — $11,250 · EmploymentPATCHWORKS HOUSE INC — $25,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,762,499Human Services$1,303,112Youth Development$309,781Health$129,062Public Safety & Disaster$89,907Employment$84,701Crime & Legal$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARION SHELTER PROGRAM INC — $311,512 over 7y, 20% of budgetMARION MATTERS INC — $264,343 over 8y, 21% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $225,691 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERNED CITIZENS AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAI DBA TURNING POINT — $222,105 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MARION COUNTY — $215,183 over 5y, 31% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC — $165,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS — $157,773 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMID-OHIO YOUTH MENTORING — $144,781 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNSELING AND WELLNESS CENTERS INC — $100,618 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSAFETY CITY OF MARION OHIO — $89,907 over 6y, 19% of budgetMARION ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY PROGRAM INC — $87,841 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetCRAWFORD WORKS — $79,563 over 6y, 54% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF MARION COUNTY INC — $73,463 over 7y, 28% of budgetMARION GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC — $73,451 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Marion County Ohio (5107) — $65,200 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOPEN DOOR RESOURCE CENTER — $59,460 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetMarion Voices Folklife & Oral History — $47,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetOHIO HEARTLAND COMMUNITY ACTION — $46,591 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank — $34,056 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUCYRUS BACKPACK PROGRAM LLC — $33,533 over 4y, 48% of budgetBELIEVE IN STUDENTS INC — $28,125 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNSELING SERVICES INC — $25,156 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPATCHWORKS HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetPEACE AND FREEDOM COMMITTEE — $23,250 over 2y, 21% of budgetFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF NORTHWEST OHIO — $22,184 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SARA BEEGLE CHILD DAY CARE CENTER — $21,483 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO — $16,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — $11,700 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMARCA INDUSTRIES INC — $11,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALPHA RECOVERY 12 STEP PROGRAM — $9,094 over 1y, 13% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC — $9,094 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNAMI NATL ALLIANCE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS — $5,850 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDUSKY VALLEY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC — $5,363 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCONTACT CRAWFORD COUNTY — $5,093 over 1y, 28% 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.

  • 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.

Marion Community FoundationOH43× affinity18 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your 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
    12report 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, FY2025

    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 55 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.

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