Ohio · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY
UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY (Ohio) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,372,185 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ($957,793). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What United Way of Fairfield County does
Mission
"improving lives through the caring power of our community" - we will focus our resources to achieve the greatest impact on community needs. We will create long-term change by measuring results.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The mission of the United Way of Fairfield County is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community. United way's strength is its ability to build partnerships and to leverage resources to make a measurable difference in the fairfield county community. Using these strengths, the united way has set bold goals to deliver solutions to community issues in the areas of education, health, and financial stability. Partnering with 24 fairfield county health and human service agencies, the united way has allocated funds to 26 programs that provide services to assist individuals and families in our community overcome obstacles to access education, to improve their health, and the work towards financial stability.
$1,111,091 spentof which $989,760 as grants86% of program spendingThe United Way of Fairfield County offers free tax preparation for low to moderate income individuals and families through our volunteer income tax site (vita) and for anyone over the age of 60 through our tax counseling for elderly site (tce). Our vita site provided free tax preparation for more than 1,032 individuals or families during the 2025 tax season. Our tce site prepared over 250 tax returns during 2025. Both sites utilize irs certified volunteers to prepare and file the returns. Clients received a total of 1.3 million in refunds.
$36,060 spent3% of program spendingThe United Way of Fairfield County, in partnership with the ohio governor's imagination library and the dolly parton's imagination library, is working to improve the kindergarten readiness in our community by furnishing books to over 5,600 preschool aged children in fairfield county each month.
$141,360 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,288,511.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2.3M to $1.9M (−17%).
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: 2017 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 7% · 2023 3% · 2024 4% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Melissa Dever
CEO (current
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $256k → $275k.
10 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $219k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fairfield County Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 FAIRFIELD COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 FAIRFIELD COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 96% · 2019 59% · 2020 45% · 2021 41% · 2022 32% · 2023 36% — 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
42% of UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
98% of UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $331k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $96k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$96k
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.
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 FAIRFIELD 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY (Ohio) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,372,185 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ($957,793). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,372,185 in grants to UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC is the largest funder on record, with $957,793 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD 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 26 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