· Public charity
United Way of Van Wert County Inc
To increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.
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 14 grants below total $175,547 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $239,235 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $63,688 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 $10k7 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YWCA | $34,139 |
| WEE CARE DAY CARE | $18,008 |
| HAVEN OF HOPE OF VAN WERT COUNTY | $17,953 |
| CRISIS CARE LINE | $16,157 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,837 |
| FAMILY HEALTH CARE OF NORTHWEST OH | $13,548 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING | $10,100 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS | $9,718 |
| CERT | $8,842 |
| FAMILY AND CHILDREN FIRST EMERGENCY | $7,500 |
| LINCOLNVIEW LATCHKEY | $6,776 |
| VAN WERT CITY SCHOOLS | $6,138 |
| VAN WERT COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,764 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING | $5,067 |
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, $483k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN OF VAN WERT CO OHIO9× · 2017–2025 · $439k · revenue +71%
- FHFAMILY HEALTH CARE OF NORTHWEST OHIO9× · 2017–2025 · $254k · revenue +104%
- VWVAN WERT COUNTY DAY CARE CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF VAN WERTone grant, 2020 · $12k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2017 · $7k
- BYBUCKEYE Yone grant, 2020 · $7k
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 provide lifetime affordable, safe, and accessible housing for individuals with disabilities who reside in van wert county in the state of ohio.
Our mission is to improve the health of those we serve.
Perform forensic interviews on minor children in response to calls from either the Department of Children and Family Services or law enforcement, regarding potential abuse of the child. The Center works as an advocate for the child with…
Walk with people facing violence, offering safety, support, and hope as they heal and rebuild. with every step forward, we build stronger, more resilient communities.
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
Crime victim advocacy center's mission is to pursue a definition of justice which includes the victim. the center serves victims of all types of crime by providing a wide range of services such as counseling, advocacy, and offering…
To increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another. the united way of van wert county, inc. tries to improve the quality of life throughout van wert county by allocating resources accordingly.
To provide counseling services to county residents and to provide services to the court system of the county.
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
Incorporated for the purpose of acting as a human service agency for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Mav Youth Mentoring Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 9% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 28 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 YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN OF VAN WERT CO OHIO ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CARE OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CARE LINE ↗
- Who funds VAN WERT COUNTY DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF HOPE OF VAN WERT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Westwood Behavioral Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INC ↗
- Who funds VAN WERT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds MAV YOUTH MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds VAN WERT COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Delphos Senior Citizens Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds West Ohio Food Bank ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PAULDING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF VAN WERT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VAN WERT COUNTY VICTIMS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FOA FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Van Wert County Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Van Wert 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.