· Public charity
Arrowhead United Way
To engage the caring power of the community to improve peoples lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $79,711 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,236,827 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,157,116 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k4 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Assistance League | $13,858 |
| SAC Health Systems | $11,585 |
| Social Science Services (Cedar House Life Change Center) | $10,161 |
| Legal Aid | $10,098 |
| Mary's Mercy Center | $9,988 |
| CASA Court Appointed Special Advocates | $9,446 |
| Boy Scouts of America Inland Empire Chapter | $7,519 |
| Inland Regional Health Center | $7,056 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +289% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MMMary's Mercy Center6× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +221%
- LALEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN BERNARDINO INC2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +393%
- SHSAC HEALTH SYSTEM2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +355%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +61%
- RFRIM FAMILY SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -1%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF SAN GORGONIO COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. To make low-cost home ownership available to low-income families.
Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.
Provide Independent Living Services for persons with developmental disabilities who want to live, work and socialize in the community. Including housing, assistance in entering the workforce, shopping, adult education and other community…
To provide dignity, respect and choice for persons with developmental disabilities
The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.
We exist to support our membership and community parnters to ensure acessible high-quality, and cost-effictve health services.
To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.
To provide residential and supportive services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. To achieve this mission the organization has constructed three residential homes and a recreation building.
Aims to reduce countywide homelessness while addressing each family's personal struggle with perpetuating homelessness and poverty in their children. Provides both transitional shelter and rapid re-housing options in addition to…
Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.
Substance abuse prevention, treatment, education, and co-occurring disorders that follow or originate to the same
To operate community service centers to improve physical,social and financial conditions for the disabled and the elderly.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Health Systems Inc and the most unlike its peers is PUFF2HO. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Mary's Mercy Center ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of San Bernardino ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN BERNARDINO INC ↗
- Who funds Family Service Agency of San Bernardino ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds SAC HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL SCIENCE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RIM FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SAN GORGONIO COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES CORPORATION AT CSUSB ↗
- Who funds Partners Against Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds BEAR VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VNACARE ↗
- Who funds INLAND COUNTIES REGIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA RIVERSIDE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER REDLA RIVERSIDE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Inland Empire Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Annenberg Foundation · Weingart Foundation · IEHP Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · Loma Linda University Shared Services Inc · Annette M Williams Charitable Foundation · California Community Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · Delta Dental Community Care Foundation · Golden State Opportunity
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arrowhead United Way funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.