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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.

$209k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$309kCrime & Legal$194kHealth$163kFood & Nutrition$76kPublic Safety & Disaster$65kPhilanthropy$19kArts & Culture$15kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $106,599, the rows itemized in this filing. The $209,455 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $102,856 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
$9,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$593k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%A RENEWED MIND: $8k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 18%A RENEWED MIND: $8k → 12%THE ABILITY CENTER: $8k → 11%WMS CO SENIOR CENTER SUPPORT: $25k → 12%A RENEWED MIND: $8k → 12%NW OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION: $8k → 11%NOCAC FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT: $7k → 11%NOCAC FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT: $6k → 11%NW OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION: $5k → 11%SHALOM MINISTRIES: $11k → 12%WMS CO SENIOR CENTER SUPPORT: $11k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$755k · 13 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$755k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+41%

Still filing today

77%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalReligionHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SF
    SARAH'S FRIENDS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +95%
  • WC
    Williams County Family YMCA of WILLIAMS COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +46%
  • HH
    HANDS HELPING HANDS MINISTRY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +51% · 56% of their budget

Funded once

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $19k · revenue -3%
  • SM
    SHALOM MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +178%
  • TS
    THE SANCTUARY OF WILLIAMS COUNTY HOMELESS SHELTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +285%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Women Helping Women

Women helping women prevents gender-based violence and empowers all survivors.

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2
Columbus Alliance for Battered Women Inc dba Hope Harbour

Columbus alliance for battered women provides emergency shelter, security, crisis intervention, and advocacy for adult and child victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
3
Wayne County Community Services Organization

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

Community Improvement
4
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio

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.

Human Services
5
Clinton County Women's Center Inc

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…

Human Services
6
Williams County Habitat for Humanity Inc

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.

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7
Southeastern Ohio Center for Independent Living

Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.

Human Services
8
Williamson County Children's Advocacy Center Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
9
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
10
Women's Center of Beaver County

Counseling, advocacy, and shelter services for victims of domestic and sexual violence in beaver county. also, prevention and education programs for the community.

Human Services
11
Columbiana County Mental Health Clinic

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)…

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12
The Center for Women and Families Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Child & Family Advocacy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRYAN AREA MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $108,958 · OtherBRYAN AREA MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION IN…Williams County Family YMCA of WILLIAMS COUNTY INC: $91,398 · OtherWilliams County Family YMCA of WILLIA…COMMUNITY COMPASSION: $35,072 · OtherCOMMUNITY COMPASSIONFAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $20,469 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHWEST OHIOTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $14,672 · Other+2 more: $14,455 · OtherSARAH'S FRIENDS INC: $124,579 · Crime & LegalSARAH'S FRIENDS INCCENTER FOR CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY INC: $62,126 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR CHILD & FAMILY…LEGAL AID OF WESTERN OHIO INC: $7,159 · Crime & LegalCPC WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE: $112,905 · HealthCPC WOMEN'S HEALTH RE…COMMUNITY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INC: $19,052 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROF…CANCER ASSISTANCE OF WILLIAMS COUNTY INC: $15,883 · HealthCANCER ASSISTANCE OF …OhioGuidestone: $15,000 · HealthOhioGuidestoneWILLIAMS COUNTY SENIOR CENTER SUPPORT FUND INC: $35,402 · Human ServicesWILLIAMS COUNT…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $30,196 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…NORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMI: $26,080 · Human ServicesNORTHWESTERN O…SHALOM MINISTRIES INC: $10,690 · Human ServicesSHALOM MINISTR…THE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $8,000 · Human ServicesTHE ABILITY CE…HANDS HELPING HANDS MINISTRY: $76,464 · ReligionHANDS HELP…COMMUNITY COMPASSION: $6,000 · ReligionCOMMUNITY …BRYAN AREA FOUNDATION INC: $12,749 · PhilanthropyTHE SANCTUARY OF WILLIAMS COUNTY HOMELESS SHELTER INC: $10,205 · Housing & Shelter
Other$285,024Crime & Legal$193,864Health$162,840Human Services$110,368Religion$82,464Philanthropy$12,749Housing & Shelter$10,205

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSARAH'S FRIENDS INC: $124,579 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetCPC WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE: $112,905 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetWilliams County Family YMCA of WILLIAMS COUNTY INC: $91,398 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetHANDS HELPING HANDS MINISTRY: $76,464 over 8y, 56% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY INC: $62,126 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetWILLIAMS COUNTY SENIOR CENTER SUPPORT FUND INC: $35,402 over 2y, 80% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $30,196 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWESTERN OHIO COMMUNITY ACTION COMMI: $26,080 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $20,469 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INC: $19,052 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER ASSISTANCE OF WILLIAMS COUNTY INC: $15,883 over 2y, 16% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRYAN AREA FOUNDATION INC: $12,749 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHALOM MINISTRIES INC: $10,690 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE SANCTUARY OF WILLIAMS COUNTY HOMELESS SHELTER INC: $10,205 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEGAL AID OF WESTERN OHIO INC: $7,159 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Bryan Area Foundation…United Way of Defianc…United Way of Fulton …Premier Bank Foundati…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Bryan Area Foundation IncOH20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Williams County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Williams County. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to United Way of Williams County?

    Find your warmest path to United Way of Williams County through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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