· Public charity
Catawba County United Way Inc
The mission of catawba county united way is to build relationships and to support our community through collaboration, compassion and purpose.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $677,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $710,621 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $33,621 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $263k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $408k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHELTER HOME OF THE FOOTHILLS | $105,000 |
| CATAWBA COUNTY COUNCIL ON ADOLESCENTS | $90,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $88,000 |
| ADULT LIFE PROGRAMS | $75,000 |
| CATAWBA VALLEY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $50,000 |
| EXODUS HOMES | $48,000 |
| CATAWBA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN | $40,000 |
| SIPES ORCHARD HOME | $37,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $27,000 |
| PATRICK BEAVER LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER | $27,000 |
| GREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY | $27,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY JR BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE PIEDMONT CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS | $22,000 |
| HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| CATAWBA COUNTY DSS SENOIR NUTRITION PROGRAM | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k 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
- EOEXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $461k · revenue +50%
- ALADULT LIFE PROGRAMS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $362k · revenue +18%
- COCOUNCIL ON ADOLESCENTS OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC4× · 2017–2020 · $280k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- CVCATAWBA VALLEY BEHAVIORAL HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $22k
- BUBethany UCC After Schoolone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Seeking to put gods love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.
To assist the needs of individuals, help them navigate past obstacles that prevent them from getting out of the cycle of homelessness and poverty, and assist them with achieving independent living.
Acap works in partnership with families and communities to empower people to achieve economic self-sufficiency and an improved quality of life.
Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
To empower adults living with severe and persistent mental illness in north carolina with the tools to lead meaningful and independent lives.
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
Provide food & shelter for the homeless, offer support to those that desire to develop or enhance their life goals and assist others in the community with financial assistance for emergency household utility needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mental Health Fund Inc Dba Catawba Valley Healthcare and the most unlike its peers is United Way of Alexander County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT LIFE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON ADOLESCENTS OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Ashure Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SIPES ORCHARD HOME ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RIDGE DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PATRICK BEAVER LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds AIDS LEADERSHIP FOOTHILLS AREA ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HOME OF THE FOOTHILLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY AND PROTECTION CENTER OF CATAWB ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL COUNTY UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS AND HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ALEXANDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
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: George Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · Beaver Family Foundation Inc · The Bolick Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Underdown Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation · Tsh Charitable Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Hambrick Family Foundation Inc
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 Catawba County United Way Inc 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.