· Public charity
United Way of the Ohio Valley Inc
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities.
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 33 grants below total $821,549 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $894,061 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $72,512 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 $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $487k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $297k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOULWARE MISSION | $66,989 |
| GIRLS INC | $64,000 |
| CLIFF HAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $56,215 |
| NEBLETT CENTER | $56,213 |
| FOUNDATION FOR DAVIESS CO PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $53,430 |
| OASIS | $49,963 |
| OHIO COUNTY SCHOOLS | $40,585 |
| AUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES | $39,842 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| MENTOR KIDS KENTUCKY | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $24,888 |
| IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF DAVIES CO | $24,500 |
| HOSPICE OF WESTERN KY | $23,443 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS | $23,000 |
| ST BENEDICTS SHELTER FOR MEN | $22,208 |
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, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 2% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k 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
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OWENSBORO-DAV COUNTY7× · 2017–2025 · $694k · revenue +54% · 27% of their budget
- CHCLIFF HAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC7× · 2017–2025 · $665k · revenue +225%
- AAAUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2025 · $657k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- OCOHIO COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $24k
- HHHENDERSON - HENDERSON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCone grant, 2022 · $19k · revenue +5%
- HOHELP OFFICE OF HANCOCK COUNTY KENTUCY INCone grant, 2017 · $18k
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 reach and help women who struggle with alcohol and chemical dependency; to offer assistance and resources to women while going through the rehabilitation process; to provide a safe environment and shelter to homeless women; to provide…
Homeless shelter that provides temporary lodging
The Crisis Center of Russell County was organized to provide assistance and temporary housing to victims of domestic abuse through secured temporary housing and education with job placement to transition them back into society. In…
To provide temporary emergency assistance including food, clothing, shelter, transportation, medical and other assistance to individuals in the hardin county, kentucky area.
The organization provide temporary housing for men, women, and children and offer guidance and support for re-entry into the community as self reliant, independent, and contributing members of society
Provides shelter for the homeless
The gentry house, inc. is an emergency transitional homeless shelter to help families with children in the region of murray and calloway county, ky. residents are given rent and utility assistance.
Organization operates a kitchen providing daily meals and housing opportunities serving harlan county and surrounding area. food boxes and personal items are also provided on a periodic basis.
To help relieve hunger in our community. we recognize that the total needs of individuals must be addressed, and will seek to facilitate the meeting of other needs. however, our primary purpose is that of providing nutritious meals to the…
Oberlin community services council is a responsive community organization that provides direct assistance, referrals, outreach and educational support to lorain county residents who struggle to meet basic needs.
Providing emergency social and human service assistance to eligible low income families in mccracken county, kentucky
To provide various ministries including a homeless shelter, an addictions recovery program, and a widows and orphans program in a christian environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Owensboro Area Shelter Information and Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Chastity Gibson Memorial Charitable Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
33 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. 33 of the 57 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 GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OWENSBORO-DAV COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CLIFF HAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HL NEBLETT COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOULWARE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds OWENSBORO AREA SHELTER INFORMATION AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Family Y of Owensboro-Daviess Co ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds MENTOR KIDS KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DAVIESS COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds GREEN RIVER REGIONAL RAPE VICTIM SERVICE DBA NEW BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER OF OWENSBORO-DAVIESS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY CENTER OF OWENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF DAVIESS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNION COUNTY HAPPY PACK INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL PITINO SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds METHODIST HOME OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO COUNTY HOSPITAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF WESTERN KY INC ↗
- Who funds HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHASTITY GIBSON MEMORIAL CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE COALFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OWENSBORO- DAVIESS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH START FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds OWENSBORODAVIESS COUNTY REGIONAL DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Owensboro Health Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Lester E Yeager Charitable Trust B · Public Life Foundation of Owensboro · Marilyn & William Young Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Sara Hemingway Ex Di · Impact 100 - Owensboro Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · B J Killian Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Tri-State Food Bank
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 the Ohio Valley 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.