· Public charity
United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co
In order to mobilize community resources to help people measurably improve their lives - we work collaboratively with our community to identify priorities, and then decide which strategies, dollars, and partnerships should be used to bring resolution to these challenges.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $997,097 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,168,198 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $171,101 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k11 grants · $283k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $714k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONEEIGHTY | $197,500 |
| VIOLA STARTZMAN CLINIC | $140,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $103,000 |
| WOOSTER YMCA | $85,000 |
| ANAZAO COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $78,837 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $60,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WAYNE AND HOLMES COUNTIES INC | $50,000 |
| WAYNE COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $44,387 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $30,000 |
| NAMI WAYNE & HOLMES COUNTIES | $30,000 |
| ORRVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $30,000 |
| HOLMES COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC | $25,000 |
| O'HUDDLE INCORPORATED | $24,000 |
| HOLMES COUNTY HEALTH DISTRICT | $23,800 |
| HOLMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $22,403 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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 +32% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 9 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 FY2024, 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
- OIONEEIGHTY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +82%
- H2HEALTHCARE 2000 COMMUNITY CLINIC INC7× · 2017–2024 · $930k · revenue +24%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Wayne County7× · 2017–2024 · $478k · revenue +108%
Funded once
- HCHOLMES COUNTY LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $15k
- HBHOMEWARD BOUND OF WOOSTER AND WAYNE COUNTY INCone grant, 2023 · $9k
- NANICK AMSTER INCone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -6%
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
In order to mobilize community resources to help people measurably improve their lives - we work collaboratively with our community to identify priorities, and then decide which strategies, dollars, and partnerships should be used to bring…
Wayne center is involved in the evaluation,placement and services of persons with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities in wayne county.
To maximize the development and utilization of the human and economic resources of the wayne county georgraphical area in order to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities and improve the welfare of people of the area.
Providing access to quality primary health care for all.
Wayne mediation center strives to provide the community served with a process for resolving disputes through empowerment, education, and effectiveness.
To reduce the conditions of poverty by providing comprehensive services to improve lives.to accomplish the mission, hhwp cac will collect and analyze data on the nature of poverty and the existing resources in the area. hhwp cac will…
Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.
Promote, lead, unite, and serve members, businesses, and the community in order for wayne county to be a great place to live, learn, and do business.
Public lending library
Organized for the purpose of creating, developing and effecting programs and projects designed to enhance the economic development of Allen, Auglaize, and Mercer Counties and its citizens, particularly to those areas of the community and…
To improve the quality of life throughout the life cycle by strengthening individuals, families, communities, alleviating human suffering and advocating policies & services which promote human dignity and self-sufficiency.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Counseling Center of Wayne & Holmes Counties and the most unlike its peers is American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches. 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 46 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 32 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 ONEEIGHTY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE 2000 COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Wayne County ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WAYNE & HOLMES COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds ANAZAO COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds OHUDDLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LEARN N PLAY OF WOOSTER ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Wooster Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE COUNSELING CENTER OF WAYNE & HOLMES COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds WEE CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI WAYNE & HOLMES COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOLMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS LTD ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES INC % JOSEPH SZEKER ↗
- Who funds ORRVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds WAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HOLMES COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds NICK AMSTER INC ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF 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.
Open a dossier: Wayne County Community Foundation · Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc · Orrville United Way Inc · Ralph R and Grace B Jones Foundation · Charles W & Laura B Frick Irr · Wooster Elks Lodge No 1346 Charitable Fund · Seaman Family Foundation Trust · Charles Loehr Charitable Trust · Romich Foundation · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities · The College of Wooster
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 Wayne and Holmes Co 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.