· Public charity
Communities Unlimited Inc
Communities Unlimited connects rural Americans to solutions that sustain healthy businesses, healthy communities and healthy lives through programs focused on community sustainability, entrepreneurship, charitable lending, healthy food and water initiatives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $659,216 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,160,594 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $501,378 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 · $22k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $224k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $154k
- $250k+1 grant · $259k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lamar State College | $259,400 |
| WE Center | $100,000 |
| City of Crockett | $53,800 |
| Mississippi State University | $25,740 |
| City of Zavalla | $25,000 |
| SouthWay Foundation | $25,000 |
| FORGE | $25,000 |
| Mississippi Heritage Trust | $25,000 |
| Weakley County School Distrist | $22,517 |
| Belzoni Humphreys County Industrial Development Foundation Inc | $17,447 |
| Pineland City | $12,346 |
| Milan Public School District | $12,154 |
| Trenton Special School District | $12,154 |
| Noxubee County Historical Society | $11,889 |
| City of Vilonia Volunteer Fire Department | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 55% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $364k 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
- LSLamar State College2× · 2024–2025 · $310k
THE URBAN INSTITUTE2× · 2020–2021 · $111k · revenue +14%- UOUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation2× · 2020–2021 · $90k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- EREat Real Certified Incone grant, 2024 · $206k · revenue 0%
- FOFEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING ENTERPRISES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $37k · revenue +212%
- HPHigher Purpose Hubone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +19%
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.
Promoting northeast mississippi for industrial growth.
To procure, develop, and operate land and properties in order to create job opportunities and foster the economic development of connersville and fayette county.
To collaborate with site locators, facility managers, developers, and real estate agents. In doing so, the AR-TX REDI staff and board will serve as the central information source for response to proposals from prospective business and…
In its role as the principal business recruitment and marketing organization for missouri, the missouri partnership attracts new jobs and business investments to the state through collaborative efforts with other state and local economic…
Building homes working families can afford. We are dedicated to: providing new, affordable homes to residents in the South Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee; preparing future and current homeowners to both acquire and maintain a safe and…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity mississippi capital area brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Develop and manage multi-family low income housing.
To provide services to low income individuals.
Improve standards in the building industry
Improving the economic development opportunities of jackson county, mississippi by unifying planning, economic & industrial development, and marketing activities in the county.
Usher in leadership & policies that make arkansas the best place to live, work, and raise a family.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Heritage Trust and the most unlike its peers is Belzoni-Humphreys County Industrial Development Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 28 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 Eat Real Certified Inc ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WE CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds BELZONI-HUMPHREYS COUNTY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds FORGE INC ↗
- Who funds Higher Purpose Hub ↗
- Who funds Arkansas United ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES INC ↗
- Who funds FRAYSER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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: Local Initiatives Support Corporation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Communities Unlimited 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.
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