· Public charity
United Way of Williams County
The UNITED WAY OF WILLIAMS COUNTY improves the quality of life within its community by connecting volunteers, organizations and resources to advance health, education, and financial stability.
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 10 grants below total $106,599 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $209,455 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $102,856 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 · $47k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SARAH'S FRIENDS | $20,460 |
| DOLLY PORTON IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $14,672 |
| BRYAN AREA FOUNDATION | $12,749 |
| HELP INC | $11,500 |
| CENTER FOR CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY | $9,500 |
| WMS CO FAMILY YMCA | $8,822 |
| OPEN HANDS CARING HEARTS | $8,500 |
| HELPING HANDS FOOD PANTRY | $8,296 |
| NOCAC FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT | $6,100 |
| GRACE CARES 419 | $6,000 |
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, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 7% 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 +51% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- SFSARAH'S FRIENDS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +94%
- WCWilliams County Family YMCA of WILLIAMS COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +46%
- HHHANDS HELPING HANDS MINISTRY8× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +51% · 56% of their budget
Funded once
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INCone grant, 2018 · $19k · revenue -3%
- SMSHALOM MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +178%
- TSTHE SANCTUARY OF WILLIAMS COUNTY HOMELESS SHELTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +285%
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.
Women helping women prevents gender-based violence and empowers all survivors.
Columbus alliance for battered women provides emergency shelter, security, crisis intervention, and advocacy for adult and child victims of domestic violence.
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
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
Provide crisis intervention, counseling, and shelter; support and empowerment; education, information, and referrals to victims of sexual and domestic violence and to those significant in their lives; and outreach related to the issues of…
To provide simple, decent and affordable housing for families living in substandard, over-crowded or cost-burdened housing, whose median income is less than 60% of the median family income for williams county, ohio.
Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.
To provide a safe place to report child abuse, reduce the emotional trauma for children and non-offending family members, and extend professional services to protect the intergrity of an investigation.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Counseling, advocacy, and shelter services for victims of domestic and sexual violence in beaver county. also, prevention and education programs for the community.
The mission of the columbiana county mental health clinic is to improve the lives of individuals and families by meeting the behavioral health needs of our community. this is accomplished through: 1) excellent customer service, 2)…
To help victims of intimate partner abuse or sexual violence become survivors through supportive services, community education and cooperative partnerships that foster hope, promote self-sufficiency and rebuild lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Child & Family Advocacy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sarah's Friends 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 39 years old; the field is 23. 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 — 4% 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.
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 23 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 SARAH'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds CPC WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE ↗
- Who funds Williams County Family YMCA of WILLIAMS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS HELPING HANDS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS COUNTY SENIOR CENTER SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMI ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER ASSISTANCE OF WILLIAMS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRYAN AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHALOM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANCTUARY OF WILLIAMS COUNTY HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF WESTERN OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COMPASSION ↗
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: Bryan Area Foundation Inc · United Way of Defiance County Inc · United Way of Fulton County · Premier Bank Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Williams County 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.
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