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Ohio · Public charity

United Way of Sandusky County Inc

We united people and resources to build a stronger comminity. One annual fund drive for many charitable organizations.

$428k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Itemized grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$352k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$15,102
Largest grant, FY2025
$60,835
Organizations funded a year
15 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations United Way of Sandusky County Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthYouth 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$352k6%
FY202415$318k13%
FY202317$312k0%
FY202218$306k6%
FY202120$364k10%
FY202023$372k17%
FY201920$386k5%
FY201819$357k11%
81% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$673kPublic Safety & Disaster$393kHuman Services$287kYouth Development$217kCrime & Legal$180kHealth$153kRecreation & Sports$151kEducation$117kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Liberty Center of Sandusky County$517,694925%
Sandusky County Share and Care Center$197,14996%
Ottawa County Family Advocacy Center Inc$44,42362%
The Community Fortress$41,774339%
Sandusky County Food Pantry$38,779413%
Girl Scouts of North East Ohio$38,66240%
Sandusky County Economic Development Corporation$18,66323%
Project Read Inc$5,9561n/a
Kidney Foundation of Northwest Ohio$5,92012%

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

United Way of Sandusky County Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLiberty Center of Sandusky County: $517,694 over 9y, 25% of budgetSandusky County Share and Care Center: $197,149 over 9y, 6.1% of budgetOttawa County Family Advocacy Center Inc: $44,423 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetThe Community Fortress: $41,774 over 3y, 39% of budgetSandusky County Food Pantry: $38,779 over 4y, 13% of budgetGirl Scouts of North East Ohio: $38,662 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSandusky County Economic Development Corporation: $18,663 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetKidney Foundation of Northwest Ohio: $5,920 over 1y, 1.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Toledo Community Foun…Ottawa County Communi…Amazonsmile Foundation
Toledo Community Foundation IncOH15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Ottawa County Community Foundation 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.

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About United Way of Sandusky County Inc

How much does United Way of Sandusky County Inc give?
United Way of Sandusky County Inc reported 17 itemized grants totaling $352,047, out of $427,956 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does United Way of Sandusky County Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (22%), Public Safety & Disaster (13%), Human Services (9%).
Who are United Way of Sandusky County Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Liberty Center of Sandusky County ($518k), Sandusky County Share and Care Center ($197k), Ottawa County Family Advocacy Center Inc ($44k).
Does United Way of Sandusky County Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Sandusky County Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Toledo Community Foundation Inc, Ottawa County Community Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is United Way of Sandusky County Inc based?
United Way of Sandusky County Inc is based in OH.

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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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