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UNITED WAY OF VAN WERT COUNTY INC

UNITED WAY OF VAN WERT COUNTY INC (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $450,665 to it, the largest being CENTRAL INSURANCE COMPANIES EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($438,380). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$498k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$451k
Net assets
$561k
6/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What United Way of Van Wert County Inc does

Mission

To increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another. The united way of van wert county, inc. Tries to improve the quality of life throughout van wert county by allocating resources accordingly.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The united way serves as a single, community-wide, voluntary fund raising agency for van wert county, ohio. It provides a broad number of health, welfare, and other services to the commmunity on a nondiscriminatory basis. Agency allocations for the campaign year were approved after each agency had submitted a funding application to the admissions & review committee. A review and evaluation of all requests for program funding occurs and recommendations for allocations take place. Programs and united way agency operations are monitored to assure adherence to accepted purposes, requests are reviewed for new united way agencies and programs, and site visits occur to all participating united way agencies. To maximize community impact, the united way staff work to discover community conditions in need of improvement, design and build long-term solutions in partnership with others, and when the need arises, work alongside the agencies for the benefit of the community.

    $292,385 spentof which $239,235 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $292,385.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($421k) Expenses 100 ($421k) Net assets 100 ($547k)2018 Revenue 104 ($438k) Expenses 91 ($381k) Net assets 112 ($610k)2019 Revenue 127 ($536k) Expenses 115 ($486k) Net assets 122 ($665k)2020 Revenue 131 ($554k) Expenses 135 ($570k) Net assets 119 ($652k)2021 Revenue 142 ($598k) Expenses 138 ($579k) Net assets 111 ($608k)2022 Revenue 120 ($504k) Expenses 125 ($527k) Net assets 96 ($526k)2023 Revenue 114 ($481k) Expenses 129 ($542k) Net assets 84 ($460k)2024 Revenue 97 ($410k) Expenses 113 ($476k) Net assets 76 ($414k)2025 Revenue 118 ($498k) Expenses 91 ($385k) Net assets 103 ($561k)
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Revenue (118)Expenses (91)Net assets (103)Peer revenue range

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 $1.0M to $887k (−12%).

$880k
$956k
$1.0M
$1.0M
$1.0M
$887k
$789k
$731k
$743k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 6% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

86% of UNITED WAY OF VAN WERT COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$234
’17
$57k
’18
$50k
’19
−$16k
’20
$19k
’21
−$23k
’22
−$61k
’23
−$66k
’24
$114k
’25
5.1
months of
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.

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Listed302929303130302022
Joined·+9+5+10+7+7+8+4+5
No longer listed·1059688143
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $87k → $72k.

1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 VAN WERT COUNTY INC’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 VAN WERT COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 VAN WERT COUNTY INC.

97%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of UNITED WAY OF VAN WERT COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH
MO
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

UNITED WAY OF VAN WERT COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · above the median
Months of reserve5.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like UNITED WAY OF VAN WERT 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 14%Fundraising 10%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF VAN WERT 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 VAN WERT COUNTY INC?
UNITED WAY OF VAN WERT COUNTY INC (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $450,665 to it, the largest being CENTRAL INSURANCE COMPANIES EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($438,380). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNITED WAY OF VAN WERT COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $450,665 in grants to UNITED WAY OF VAN WERT COUNTY INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF VAN WERT COUNTY INC?
CENTRAL INSURANCE COMPANIES EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $438,380 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF VAN WERT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing