Butler County United Way
Hamilton, OH · EIN 31-0734490. Reported 128 grants totalling $2,809,338 to 45 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 45 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 85% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $17,672. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $144,536. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
10 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $167,404 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shared Harvest Foodbank Inc | Fairfield, OH | $220,528 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Every Child Succeeds Inc | Cincinnati, OH | $219,787 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sojourner Recovery Services | Hamilton, OH | $202,039 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| United States Catholic Conference | Washington, DC | $172,000 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Butler County Inc | Hamilton, OH | $167,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Parachute Special Advocates for Children of Butler County Inc | Hamilton, OH | $144,471 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Hamilton Inc | Hamilton, OH | $141,267 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Young Womens Christian Association | Hamilton, OH | $134,306 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Alcoholism Council Butler County Ohio Inc | Fairfield Twp, OH | $125,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Great Miami Valley YMCA | Hamilton, OH | $112,912 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Women Helping Women | Cincinnati, OH | $95,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Community Building Institute Middletown | Middletown, OH | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hamilton Living Water Ministry Inc | Hamilton, OH | $68,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hope House Rescue Mission Inc | Middletown, OH | $67,627 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $62,013 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Serve City | Hamilton, OH | $60,285 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Butler County Special Olympics | Fairfield, OH | $59,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Comprehensive Community Child Care Organization Inc | Cincinnati, OH | $58,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Oxford Senior Citizens Inc | Oxford, OH | $57,188 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Cincinnati Association for the Blind | Cincinnati, OH | $47,674 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Family Resource Center | Oxford, OH | $42,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Cancer Family Care Inc | Cincinnati, OH | $42,419 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lifespan Incorporated | Hamilton, OH | $41,126 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Abilities First Foundation Inc | Middletown, OH | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Butler County Community Health Consortium | Hamilton, OH | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Family Promise of Butler County | Hamilton, OH | $37,935 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Topss | Oxford, OH | $34,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Focus on Youth Inc | West Chester, OH | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fairfield City School District | Fairfield, OH | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Boys & Girls Club of West Chester Liberty | West Chester, OH | $26,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Salvation Army | West Nyack, NY | $24,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hopes Closet | Cincinnati, OH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sjo Kids Inc | Cincinnati, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Axis Teen Centers | Liberty Twp, OH | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Mother Teresa Catholic Elementary School | Liberty Twp, OH | $13,696 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Support to Encourage Low Income Families | Hamilton, OH | $10,620 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Warren County Community Services Inc | Lebanon, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Joseph Orphanage | Cincinnati, OH | $8,445 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Easter Seals Tristate | Cincinnati, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Irving, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Girl Scouts of Western Ohio | Blue Ash, OH | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fairfield Food Pantry | Fairfield, OH | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fitton Center for Creative Arts | Hamilton, OH | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Oxford College Corner Clinic | Oxford, OH | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Talawanda School District | Oxford, OH | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
34 of 45 (76%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Shared Harvest
BACKPACK/COMPREHENSIVE HUNGER RELIEF; DONOR DESIGNATIONS - Big Brothers Big Sisters
ONE TO ONE MENTORING; DONOR DESIGNATIONS - Boys & Girls Club of Hamilton
AFTER SCHOOL/SUMMER YOUTH; DONOR DESIGNATIONS - Butler County CASA
PARACHUTE: CASA; DONOR DESIGNATIONS - Catholic Charities of Sw Ohio
PARENT PROJECT; COMPREHENSIVE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH; DONOR DESIGNATIONS - Butler County Education Service Center
EVERY CHILD SUCCEEDS; DONOR DESIGNATIONS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 of 45 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 33 | $784,049 | $15,000 |
| 2021 | 28 | $637,684 | $18,672 |
| 2022 | 31 | $662,899 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 36 | $724,706 | $17,921 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
91% of its giving went to organizations in Ohio. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $17,672 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Ohio.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Butler County United Way's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 38 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 323 North Third Street, Hamilton, OH, 45011.
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