· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against -37% for those 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
How this is measured
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 -37%
- FOFEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING ENTERPRISES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $37k · revenue +212%
- HPHigher Purpose Hubone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +19%
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.
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.
Promoting northeast mississippi for industrial growth.
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…
To procure, develop, and operate land and properties in order to create job opportunities and foster the economic development of connersville and fayette county.
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…
Develop and manage multi-family low income housing.
To serve vulnerable populations with housing service and facilitate data collection, reporting and analysis
To provide services to low income individuals.
Usher in leadership & policies that make arkansas the best place to live, work, and raise a family.
Improve standards in the building industry
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Local Initiatives Support Corporation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Communities Unlimited Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Communities Unlimited Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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