Ohio · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY INC
UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY INC (Ohio) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $638,931 to it, the largest being DEFIANCE AREA FOUNDATION INC ($178,688). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $509k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $639k
- Net assets
- $586k
What United Way of Defiance County Inc does
Mission
To unite people and resources to improve lives in defiance county.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
United way of defiance county's community impact areas are: education, income, health, and essential services. Our community campaign takes place predominately in the fall each year where we solicit the community to support programs that collaborate to address our impact areas. A group of dedicated community volunteers make up our community investment team who review, interview, and recommend funding to our board. The donated funds support 30 local programs benefiting defiance county.
$234,976 spentof which $126,169 as grants61% of program spendingThe back pack buddy program is a weekend food program for children enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program at eight elementary schools in defiance county and younger siblings at home not attending school. Each weekend during the academic year a back pack with kid friendly, nutritious food is sent home with the enrolled children. On average almost 500 back packs are stuffed weekly providing food for the children.
$38,408 spent10% of program spendingThe united way of defiance county coordinated the 8th annual kindergarten camp at all 5 elementary schools. This program is a weeklong introduction to kindergarten for students who were screened as being "at-risk." 153 students attended the weeklong program. The monarch fund was established from monies designated to us by the promedica foundation. These funds are to be used for health related needs. Once we have a specific need we contact promedica and request use of the designated funds.
$12,574 spent3% of program spendingAll other accomplishments other program service accomplishments include: the community engagement center, cec, a volunteer portal on the united way of defiance county website that connects volunteers with volunteer opportunities in our community. The cec has over 1,100 registered volunteers and 69 registered agencies with over 1,100 hours of community service coordinated or referred. The volunteer value of those volunteer hours is 38,269. Hosted the 11th annual dr. Seuss birthday celebration connecting 105 volunteers to local elementary school classrooms to read books aloud. In partnership with the united states postal service letter carriers, 31,000 pounds of food was collected for 7 food pantries in defiance county in a single day. Continued supporting the feeding success program which supplied a personal care and food pantry for each middle and high school in defiance county. The united way of defiance county is a fiscal sponsor for the women's giving circle of defiance county. The mission of the women's giving circle is to support projects that impact the lives of women and children. The imagination library distributed 15,494 new books to 1,500 children aged birth to 5 through…
$97,376 spent25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $383,334.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $681k to $622k (−9%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $10k → $163k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 37% · 2020 41% · 2021 35% · 2022 25% · 2023 60% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
63% of UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
76% of UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $151k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $488k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY INC?
- UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY INC (Ohio) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $638,931 to it, the largest being DEFIANCE AREA FOUNDATION INC ($178,688). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $638,931 in grants to UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY INC?
- DEFIANCE AREA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $178,688 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF DEFIANCE COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing