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United Way of Portage County Inc

We unite people with resources to improve quality of life of families and individuals in portage county

$640k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$147k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$898kHealth$188kCrime & Legal$132kInternational$3kYouth Development$3k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $218,550, the rows itemized in this filing. The $640,064 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $421,514 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $147k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES$146,850
TOWNHALL II$14,900
CHILDREN S ADVOCACY CENTER$13,400
THE SALVATION ARMY$12,000
COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES$9,800
PASSAGES$8,600
KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF OHIO$7,200
CLINICAL INITIATIVES INC$5,800
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 (FY17–24, $725k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Family & Community Services: $245k → 12%FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $170k → 12%FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $170k → 12%FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $86k → 12%Passages Inc: $15k → 12%PASSAGES: $10k → 12%PASSAGES: $10k → 12%PASSAGES: $10k → 12%PASSAGES: $9k → 12%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 9 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$1.2M
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+142%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +79%
  • PC
    Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons
    5× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +131%
  • CP
    COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIOgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +142%
  • GO
    Girls on the Run of Greater Summit Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohiograduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +50%
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
Pathways Counseling Center Inc

Community Mental Health, Drug Abuse and Alcoholism Services.

Education
2
Clermont Counseling Center

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

Health
3
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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4
New Horizons Mental Health Services Inc

To provide mental health care to children, adults, and families of the fairfield county area and occasionally to other counties in the state of ohio

Health
5
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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6
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

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

Health
7
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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8
Court Diagnostic and Treatment Center

Mental health evaluations for the court systems for 13 northwest ohio counties

Crime & Legal
9
Ohio Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Promote the establishment and success of multi-disciplinary teams and children's advocacy centers by providing support, education, and networking opportunities to enhance ohio's respones to child abuse.

Civil Rights
10
Youth Advocate Services

Yas strives to provide culturally competent mental health treatment, independent living skill development and care planning services in order to prevent out of home placement.

Human Services
11
Community Guidance Clinic for Central Connecticut Inc

Community guidance clinic for central connecticut, an established and trusted community resource, provides comprehensive evidence-based behavioral health services that promote wellness and resilience. our collaborative, family-focused,…

Human Services
12
Northwest Ohio Casa

We have volunteers responsibile for investigating neglect and dependency cases and reporting back to the juvenile court.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family & Community Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Girls on the Run of Greater Summit Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohio. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $818,571 · Human ServicesFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INCPassages Connecting Fathers & Sons: $53,600 · Human ServicesPassages Connecting Fathers & SonsCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC: $52,800 · HealthCOLEMAN PROF…TOWNHALL II INC: $50,400 · HealthTOWNHALL II …Portage County Children's Services Center: $22,250 · HealthPortage Coun…KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF OHIO INC: $7,200 · HealthKIDNEY FOUND…The Salvation Army: $79,000 · OtherThe Salva…Kidney Foundation of Ohio: $25,050 · OtherKidney Fo…THE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC: $78,400 · Crime & LegalCLINICAL INITIATIVES INC: $29,926 · EducationJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $3,000 · InternationalGirls on the Run of Greater Summit Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohio: $2,500 · Youth Development
Human Services$872,171Health$132,650Other$104,050Crime & Legal$78,400Education$29,926International$3,000Youth Development$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $818,571 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC: $78,400 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetPassages Connecting Fathers & Sons: $53,600 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC: $52,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTOWNHALL II INC: $50,400 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCLINICAL INITIATIVES INC: $29,926 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetPortage County Children's Services Center: $22,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF OHIO INC: $7,200 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGirls on the Run of Greater Summit Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohio: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

The Westfield Insuran…Akron Community Found…Dominion Energy Chari…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Westfield Insurance FoundationOH13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Portage County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Portage County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $347k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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