Ohio · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY
UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY (Ohio) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,947,585 to it, the largest being THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($342,611). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$11M
Recipients
29
Contributions on record
$2.0M
Donors on record
40
Payments out run 5.6x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Siemer Family Foundationshared funderslocal
- Delaware County Medical Society Public Health Fundportfolio match
- Betty and Leo Balzereit Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 39% · 2022 67% · 2023 26% · 2024 25% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $167k → $369k.
13 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 DELAWARE COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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.
Where its funders are
60% of UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY'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 $781k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 40 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Siemer Family Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 82 organizations that share your funders · funds 118 organizations near you
- Delaware County Medical Society Public Health Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Betty and Leo Balzereit Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Network of Youth and Family Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sky Ranch Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Siemer Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leo C Balzereit Tr Uunitrustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asociacion De Puertorriquenos en Marcha Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Workforce Professionals Training Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conscious Kids Inc - Agy Mainportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Plymouth Community United Wayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wilkens Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $750k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$750k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY (Ohio) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,947,585 to it, the largest being THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($342,611). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,947,585 in grants to UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY?
- THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $342,611 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 40funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing