United Way of the Ohio Valley Inc
Owensboro, KY · EIN 61-0435444. Reported 124 grants totalling $3,476,551 to 49 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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. For United Way of the Ohio Valley Inc, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 49 distinct organizations, with 9% 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. 79% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,250. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $39,842; the smallest was $5,097 and the largest $92,750. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boulware Mission Inc | Owensboro, KY | $317,157 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| H L Neblett Community Center Inc | Owensboro, KY | $300,978 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Girls Incorporated of Owensboro Daviess County | Owensboro, KY | $291,387 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cliff Hagan Boys & Girls Club Inc | Owensboro, KY | $273,210 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Audubon Area Community Services Inc | Owensboro, KY | $236,402 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Owensboro Area Shelter Information and Services Inc Oasis | Owensboro, KY | $236,206 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Foundation for Davies County Public Schools Inc | Owensboro, KY | $181,452 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Brookhaven, GA | $153,498 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mentorkids Kentucky Inc | Owensboro, KY | $112,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Imagination Library of Daviess County Inc | Owensboro, KY | $102,350 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Green River Regional Rape Victim Services Inc | Owensboro, KY | $92,663 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Thelma B Johnson Early Learning Ctr | Henderson, KY | $90,525 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc | Owensboro, KY | $88,471 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Family Y of Owensboro Daviess County Inc | Owensboro, KY | $87,257 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United States Catholic Conference | Washington, DC | $81,452 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Green River District Health Department | Owensboro, KY | $81,100 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $79,978 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Frysc - UC (clothe-a-Kid Just Say No) - Union Co Schools (family Resource | Morganfield, KY | $51,121 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Union County Happy Pack | Morganfield, KY | $50,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Senior Community Center of Owensboro-Daviess County Inc | Owensboro, KY | $47,138 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Society of St Vincent De Paul Diocesan Council of Owensboro Inc | Owensboro, KY | $44,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ohio County Schools | Hartford, KY | $40,585 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Union Co Senior Services | Morganfield, KY | $35,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chastity Gibson Memorial Charitable Trust | Evansville, IN | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Daniel Pitino Shelter Inc | Owensboro, KY | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Living Faith Baptist Church | Hartford, KY | $27,044 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Help Office of Owensboro Inc | Owensboro, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ohio County Education Association | Bowling Green, KY | $24,334 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hancock Seniors Centers | Hawesville, KY | $23,171 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Opportunity Center of Owensboro Inc | Owensboro, KY | $22,358 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fresh Start for Women | Owensboro, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Owensboro, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Owensboro-Daviess County Regional Dental Clinic Inc | Owensboro, KY | $19,967 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Kyndle Inc | Henderson, KY | $19,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Owensboro Public Schools | Owensboro, KY | $16,320 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Crossroads Inc | Owensboro, KY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ohio County Senior Services - Meals on Wheels | Hartford, KY | $12,750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Louisville, KY | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Henderson Co Schools | Henderson, KY | $11,713 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Sinners Inc | Owensboro, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Help Office of Ohio County Inc | Hartford, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lighthouse Recovery Services Inc | Owensboro, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ohio County Hospital Corporation | Hartford, KY | $7,300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Green River Asset Building Coalition Inc | Owensboro, KY | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hancock Co Board of Ed (comm Ed & Frc) | Lewisport, KY | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mclean County Meals on Wheels | Calhoun, KY | $6,442 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Henderson County Public Library | Henderson, KY | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Imagination Library of Hancock County | Hawesville, KY | $5,125 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Help Office of Mclean County Inc | Livermore, KY | $5,097 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
29 of 49 (59%) 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.
- Boulware Mission
COMMUNITY BENEFIT ALLOCATIONS & DONOR DESIGNATIONS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 27 of 49 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 33 | $928,920 | $16,320 |
| 2022 | 32 | $942,454 | $21,050 |
| 2023 | 26 | $783,628 | $22,071 |
| 2024 | 33 | $821,549 | $20,000 |
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
90% of its giving went to organizations in Kentucky. 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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $20,250 -- 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 Kentucky.
- 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 United Way of the Ohio Valley Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 403 Park Plaza Drive, Owensboro, KY, 42301.
EIN 61-0435444 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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