· Public charity
United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc
United way is strengthening the upper ohio valley's resilience, advance health, youth opportunities, and financial security.
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 27 grants below total $599,749 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $708,236 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $108,487 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 $10k6 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $489k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $74k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEIRTON CHRISTIAN CENTER | $73,695 |
| COMMUNITY BREAD BASKET | $43,743 |
| HARMONY HOUSE CAC | $42,724 |
| YWCA | $42,142 |
| YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM | $35,171 |
| WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT | $31,809 |
| TRI COUNTY HELP CENTER | $28,932 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES WV | $28,265 |
| SALVATION ARMY - BELMONT COUNTY | $27,976 |
| BROOKE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING | $27,445 |
| RUSSELL NISBETT SERVICES | $26,695 |
| SEXUAL ASSUALT HELP CENTER | $24,124 |
| HOLY FAMILY CHILD CARE CENTER | $19,692 |
| GABRIEL PROJECT | $18,989 |
| YMCA | $14,823 |
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, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +30% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k 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
- WHWHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC8× · 2017–2025 · $393k · revenue +100%
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING WV8× · 2017–2025 · $304k · revenue +76%
- YSYOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC8× · 2017–2025 · $273k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- TSTHE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +115%
- THTHE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +48%
- TKTHE KING'S DAUGHTERS CHILD CARE CENTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +137%
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.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
Provide homemaker and case management services to home-bound seniors and disabled members in west virginia. provide, also, training and job assistance to those 55 and older on a limited income.
Provide childd care services and preschool for children birth to age 12
Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.
Services to challenged individuals in Vocational,Residential, Home Based, and Community settings.
Provide residential and human services to individuals with developmental disabilities.
The harrison county senior citizens center provides educational, social, healthful, and recreational programs and services for all senior citizens of harrison county, west virginia. the center does not discriminate on the basis of race,…
Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.
A community center which provides a meeting place and programs for the recreation and social welfare of all age groups in the community.
Residential care home for elderly and handicapped.
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
Nurturing the mental health and psychological well being of children, adults and families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tri-County Help Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Information Helpline - Upper Ohio Valley Inc. 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 51 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 39 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 WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING WV ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE - UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds RUSSELL NESBITT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INFORMATION HELPLINE - UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SEEING HAND ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY SEXUAL ASSAULT HEL P CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GABRIEL PROJECT OF WEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING ↗
- Who funds BROOKE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY CHILD CARE & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WEIRTON CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Community Bread Basket Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF BLACK DIAMOND COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK COUNTY SHELTERED WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S DAUGHTERS CHILD CARE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY DAY CARE AND CHILD CARE PROVIDER TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LAUGHLIN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO RIVER VALLEY COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL 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: Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Vna Home Support Services Inc · Hess Family Foundation · Francis J and Edith Jackson Founda Security National Trust Company · August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation · Fitzsimmons Foundation · Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation · Rosemary M Front Charitable Trust · Robinson S Parlin Trust · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Helping Hand Foundation
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 Upper 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.