· Public charity
Franklin County Area United Way Inc
Conduct a fundraising campaign to raise money for other charitable organizations located within the franklin county, missouri area.
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 36 grants below total $1,026,823 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,138,982 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $112,159 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 · $26k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $641k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON EMERGENCY RELIEF | $76,500 |
| SAINT LOUIS COUNSELING CATHOLIC FAMILY CHARITIES | $70,000 |
| OATS | $55,500 |
| FOUR RIVERS YMCA | $55,000 |
| EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS | $52,000 |
| COMPASS HEALTH | $50,500 |
| LOVING HEARTS | $49,998 |
| AGAPE HOUSE | $45,000 |
| EMPAC GROUP (FORMERLY SHELTERED WORKSHOP) | $41,250 |
| UNION FOOD PANTRY | $37,500 |
| MERAMEC COMMUNITY MISSION | $35,500 |
| COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $32,500 |
| AGING AHEAD (FORMERLY MEAAA) | $30,500 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY DENTAL NETWORK | $30,000 |
| RAINBOW ABILITIES CENTER | $30,000 |
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, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
64 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LHLOVING HEARTS OUTREACH INC7× · 2019–2025 · $630k · revenue +65%
- OIOATS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $499k · revenue +43%
- SLSAINT LOUIS COUNSELING INC7× · 2019–2025 · $486k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
- UFUNION FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2019 · $21k
- BPBACK PACK PROGRAMSone grant, 2023 · $16k
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.
To empower adults and families to become independent and permanently housed. the organization provides shelter, food, and other life sustaining materials and activities for destitute families, children and the homeless in the city of st.…
To develop and provide human service programs for intellectually and developmentally disabled children and adults in the areas of residential, enhanced health and support coordination; and to provide residential services for the mentally…
To empower people with disabilities to lead self-directed lives as valued members of the community.
Assist older adults in responding to their changing lifestyles and maximizing their independence through a variety of programs and services.
Provide support services to developmentally disabled individuals of perry county,missouri through areas of community employment, job preparation, day programs, transportation and personal assistance.
To assist individuals with disabilities achieve their goals and lead a more independent lifestyle primarily in the phelps, pulaski, and laclede counties.
To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.
Community Development and Community Center and social services
The heart of missouri united way works in improve lives of people in need by mobilizing and coordinating the caring power of community resources in mid-missouri.
Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.
Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.
Adult day care for frail older adults, particularly those suffering from some form of dementia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Developmental Services of Franklin County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Turning Point Advocacy Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 72 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 LOVING HEARTS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds OATS INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EMPAC EMPLOYMENT RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE HELP HOUSE OF PACIFIC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds UNION FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MERAMEC COMMUNITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW ABILITIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Alive Inc ↗
- Who funds TEMCO INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 312 - GREATER ST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MIDEAST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds Portals DBA Buddies Not Bullies ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds VOYCE ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY ASSISTANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TREATMENT INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY 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: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Jefferson Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Youthbridge Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · East Missouri Foundation · The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital · Big League Impact Inc · Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation · Norman J Stupp 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 Franklin County Area 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.