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Brown County United Way

Serve health & human needs in brown co

$172k
Granted FY2023
12
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Human Services$150kHealth$94kYouth Development$79kCrime & Legal$39kPublic Safety & Disaster$31kHousing & Shelter$20kFood & Nutrition$8k
02FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $158,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $171,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $126k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$111k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$20,000
P GRIFFIN MEMORIAL LATCHKEY$18,000
THE ARK DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$15,000
CASA$15,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$12,000
CENTER FOR LIFE RESOURCES$11,000
BROWN COUNTY HOME SOLUTIONS$10,000
BROWN COUNTY 4H CLUBS$9,000
BROWNWOOD AREA COMMUNITY GARD$8,000
CANCER SERVICES NETWORK$8,000
EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 16%P GRIFFIN MEMORIAL LATCHKEY: $18k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $9k → 16%P GRIFFIN MEMORIAL LATCHKEY: $18k → 17%P GRIFFIN MEMORIAL LATCHKEY: $14k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$412k · 10 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
1

Total granted

$412k
$8k

Still filing today

70%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BROWN COUNTY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $53k · revenue +17%
  • PG
    PEARL GRIFFIN MEMORIAL LATCH KEY PROGRAM
    4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +14%
  • TA
    The Ark Domestic Violence Shelter Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $39k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • BA
    BROWNWOOD AREA COMMUNITY GARDEN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Brown County Humane Society

Shelter and humane treatment of animals.

Animals
2
Court Appointed Special Advocates Casa of Liberty/Chambers Counties

None

Human Services
3
Brown County United Way

Serve health & human needs in brown co

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4
Shelter Agencies for Families in East Texas

To provide shelter to abused families.

Human Services
5
Texas Battered Women's Center Inc

Provide care, assistance, and counseling for abused women. Provide food for needy families.

Human Services
6
Casa of Grayson County Inc

CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Grayson County is a non-profit organization dedicated to training and equipping our community to protect children, empower families, and advocate for positive outcomes for children involved in…

Civil Rights
7
Child Advocates Casa of Red River
Civil Rights
8
Brownsville Teen Center

To provide nutrition and home essentials to low income families

—
9
Lone Star Casa Inc

Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…

Civil Rights
10
Casa of Harrison County

To provide trained court appointed volunteers to serve as advocates for the best interests of abused and neglected children in harrison county texas

Youth Development
11
Bluebonnet Childrens Center

To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.

Crime & Legal
12
Genesis Center North Texas Inc

Shelter for homeless and abused women and children.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Scouts of Central Texas; the most unlike its peers is Pearl Griffin Memorial Latch Key Program. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CENTRAL TEXAS MENTAL HEALTH MENTAL RETARDATION CENTER: $69,500 · OtherTHE CENTRAL TEXAS MENTAL HEALTH MENTAL RETAR…The Salvation Army: $61,000 · OtherThe Salvation ArmyTEXAS 4-H: $25,500 · OtherTEXAS 4-HBROWNWOOD AREA COMMUNITY GARDEN: $8,000 · OtherPEARL GRIFFIN MEMORIAL LATCH KEY PROGRAM: $50,000 · Human ServicesPEARL GRIFFIN MEMORIAL LATCH KEY…The Ark Domestic Violence Shelter Inc: $39,000 · Human ServicesThe Ark Domestic Violence Shelte…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $31,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & It…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BROWN COUNTY: $53,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS…COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES IN THE HEART OF TEXAS: $38,500 · Civil RightsCOURT APPO…Cancer Services Network Inc: $24,000 · PhilanthropyBROWN COUNTY HOME SOLUTIONS INC: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$164,000Human Services$120,000Youth Development$53,000Civil Rights$38,500Philanthropy$24,000Housing & Shelter$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BROWN COUNTY: $53,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetPEARL GRIFFIN MEMORIAL LATCH KEY PROGRAM: $50,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetThe Ark Domestic Violence Shelter Inc: $39,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES IN THE HEART OF TEXAS: $38,500 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Services Network Inc: $24,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBROWN COUNTY HOME SOLUTIONS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 15% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Central Texas Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
Central Texas Foundation IncTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Texas Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brown County United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brown County United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $160k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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