· Public charity
United Way of Sandusky County Inc
We united people and resources to build a stronger comminity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $352,047 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $427,956 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $75,909 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 $10k4 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $259k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIBERTY CENTER OF SANDUSKY COUNTY | $60,835 |
| GLCAP | $45,486 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $29,595 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,392 |
| CAMP FIRE USA | $25,305 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,379 |
| SANDUSKY COUNTY SHARE & CARE | $20,086 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES | $16,576 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $15,102 |
| SANDUSKY COUNTY NEWBORN VISITING | $14,700 |
| CASA | $14,541 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,476 |
| SANDUSKY COUNTY 4-H CLUBS | $13,820 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NE OHIO | $9,083 |
| OTTAWA COUNTY FAMILY ADVOCACY | $8,364 |
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 (FY17–25, $197k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
27 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- LCLiberty Center of Sandusky County9× · 2017–2025 · $518k · revenue +11%
- SCSANDUSKY COUNTY SHARE AND CARE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $197k · revenue +105%
- OCOTTAWA COUNTY FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +208%
Funded once
- WAWSOS AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $16k
- GAGLCAP AFTER SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $12k
- NNAMIone grant, 2019 · $10k
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 assist & support the children of sandusky county, oh who have been affected by abuse, neglect, domestic violence,divorce or separation in rebuilding their family relationships
Provide food to low income individuals
Community food pantry
Provide emergency food for those in need.
The mission of the sandusky county communities foundation is to enhance the well-being of the people and communities of sandusky county by managing permanent investments for philanthropic goals.
Supply food to needy people
Provide non commercial radio
To provide fire protection and emergency rescue service for ballville township and surrounding areas.
Assist and support entrepreneurial devel
Stark County District Library is an award winning library that consists of Main Library, nine branch libraries and five (5) mobile units that serve over 189,000 cardholders. The Library provides programs and classes for adults, teens and…
To serve the senior citizens and community of bismark, ohio, and the surrounding areas, and to engage citizens in serving their local community.
The organization mission is to provide food and various daily needs of individuals living in lake county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Fortress and the most unlike its peers is Girl Scouts of North East Ohio. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 34 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 Liberty Center of Sandusky County ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY COUNTY SHARE AND CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA COUNTY FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FORTRESS ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY COUNTY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT READ INC ↗
- Who funds KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST 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.
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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 Sandusky County 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.