How much does United Way of North Central Ohio Inc give?

United Way of North Central Ohio Inc reported 26 itemized grants totaling $503,320, out of $531,320 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of North Central Ohio Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Youth Development (14%), Housing & Shelter (9%).

Who are United Way of North Central Ohio Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Marion Shelter Program Inc ($312k), Marion Matters Inc ($264k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($226k).

Does United Way of North Central Ohio Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of North Central Ohio Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marion Community Foundation, The Community Foundation for Crawford County, Tiffin Seneca United Way Inc.

Where is United Way of North Central Ohio Inc based?

United Way of North Central Ohio Inc is based in OH.

United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

United Way of North Central Ohio Inc at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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.

$531k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$70k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$789kYouth Development$532kHousing & Shelter$320kPublic Safety & Disaster$316kHealth$276kCrime & Legal$248kEducation$222kEmployment$164kOther$0

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 26 grants below total $503,320, the rows itemized in this filing. The $531,320 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $28,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $61k
$10k–50k15 grants · $267k
$50k–250k3 grants · $175k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
HOMELAND TECHNOLOGY GROUP LLC	$15,000
PATCHWORKS HOUSE	$15,000
AMERICANRED CROSS	$15,000
YMCA OF BUCYRUS-TIFFIN	$12,500
MOBILE MEALS OF MARION COUNTY	$12,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEmploymentPublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalOther

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

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MARION MATTERS INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $264k · revenue +205%
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American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
8× · 2018–2025 · $226k · revenue +9%
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BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $165k · revenue +19%

Funded once

AP
Anita Pitman Recovert Center
one grant, 2019 · $23k
UW
UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue +81%
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ALPHA RECOVERY 12 STEP PROGRAM
one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue -30%

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.

Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

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

Health

Columbus Area Childcare

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

Youth Development

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

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

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…

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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

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…

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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.

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Compass Family & Community Services

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

Human Services

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

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)…

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Greater Marion Community Area New Development-Can Do

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

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of Marion County Ohio (5107); 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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 55 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/41

Grantees still filing

23/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,762,499Human Services$1,303,112Youth Development$309,781Health$129,062Public Safety & Disaster$89,907Employment$84,701Crime & Legal$25,000

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

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.

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

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 North Central Ohio Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of North Central Ohio Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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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, 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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home