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Fremont Area United Way

The FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY is working to advance the common good by focusing on a healthy community, youth opportunity, financial security, and community resiliency.

$465k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$1.5MEducation$557kHuman Services$432kHealth$412kYouth Development$154kCrime & Legal$82kFood & Nutrition$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $452,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $464,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,500 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $370k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARECORPS$100,000
DODGE COUNTY HEAD START$70,000
FREMONT FAMILY YMCA$50,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER$50,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$50,000
CRISIS CENTER$50,000
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES$25,000
CASA OF THE MIDLANDS$20,000
ASPIRE FOR GREATNESS$20,000
Individual grant recipient$9,500
LEGAL AID$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $844k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ROOTS TO WINGS: $6k → 7%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $76k → 11%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $75k → 11%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $75k → 11%FREMONT FAMILY YMCA: $73k → 11%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $65k → 11%FREMONT FAMILY YMCA: $58k → 11%FREMONT FAMILY YMCA: $55k → 11%FREMONT FAMILY YMCA: $55k → 11%FREMONT FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 11%FREMONT FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 11%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $45k → 11%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $45k → 11%FREMONT FAMILY YMCA: $43k → 11%FREMONT FAMILY YMCA: $40k → 11%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 11%JEFFERSON HOUSE: $9k → 11%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 11 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$3.2M
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
0%

Still filing today

82%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CC
    CARE CORPS' LIFEHOUSE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $671k · revenue +96%
  • CO
    COUNTY OF DODGE PROJECT HEAD START
    8× · 2018–2025 · $557k · revenue +17%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $423k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • LI
    LOW INCOME MINISTRY OF DODGE COUNTY
    one grant, 2018 · $12k
  • HF
    HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE
    one grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue -6%
  • BL
    BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · 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.

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
Friendship Home of Lincoln Inc

To provide emergency shelter

Human Services
2
Nebraska Casa Association

The nebraska casa association partners with local casa programs to recruit and train volunteers who speak in court for the safety and well-being of abused and neglected children.

Crime & Legal
3
Family Development Center

To provide a comprehensive therapeutic early childhood and strength-based family education programs, committed to the prevention of child abuse and neglect, so that children may grow and develop to their full potential.

Human Services
4
Family Homestead

Housing and case management support for homeless families with children.

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5
Family Resources

The mission of the organization is to prevent and treat child abuse by strengthening families.

Human Services
6
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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7
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
8
Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa Inc

Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…

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9
Hope Haven Inc

As followers of christ, hope haven's mission is to empower individuals with disabilities through work and life skills so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.

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10
Hope's Door New Beginning Center

The mission of hope's door new beginning center is to offer intervention and prevention services to individuals and families affected by intimate partner and family violence and to provide education programs that enhance the community's…

Human Services
11
Jackson County Casa

Casa is a unique non-profit helping abused and neglected children in the jackson county family court system. our team of trained volunteers,staff case supervisors, and staff attorneys allow each child to be represented in a court of law…

Civil Rights
12
Dakota Plains Legal Services

To promote equal access to justice and improve the lives of low-income clients through quality legal assistance

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartland Family Service; the most unlike its peers is Roots to Wings Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COUNTY OF DODGE PROJECT HEAD START: $556,500 · OtherCOUNTY OF DODGE PROJECT HEAD STARTCRISIS CENTER FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $402,930 · OtherCRISIS CENTER FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE AND SEXUAL AS…FREMONT AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $249,000 · OtherFREMONT AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITYASPIRE FOR GREATNESS: $54,500 · Other+2 more: $38,003 · OtherCARE CORPS' LIFEHOUSE: $671,000 · Housing & ShelterCARE CORPS' LIFEHOUSEREBUILDING TOGETHER PLATTE VALLEY EAST INC: $205,000 · Housing & ShelterREBUILDING TOGETHER PLATTE VALL…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $422,800 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIAT…LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $406,250 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF N…+2 more: $15,120 · Human ServicesHOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC: $92,250 · Youth DevelopmentBANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentCASA OF THE MIDLANDS: $74,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA: $7,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,300,933Housing & Shelter$876,000Human Services$844,170Youth Development$99,750Crime & Legal$81,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARE CORPS' LIFEHOUSE: $671,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetCOUNTY OF DODGE PROJECT HEAD START: $556,500 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $422,800 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $406,250 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCRISIS CENTER FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $402,930 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetFREMONT AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $249,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER PLATTE VALLEY EAST INC: $205,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC: $92,250 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCASA OF THE MIDLANDS: $74,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetLOW INCOME MINISTRY OF DODGE COUNTY: $11,667 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $9,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Fremont Area Communit…Immanuel Community Vi…Nebraska Community Fo…First Interstate Banc…Debby Durham Family F…The Sherwood Foundati…Mutual of Omaha Found…The Hawks FoundationLeland J & Dorothy H …The Lozier FoundationTodd and Mary Heistan…Union Pacific Foundat…
Fremont Area Community FoundationNE24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fremont Area Community Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Debby Durham Family Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation · Union Pacific 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 Fremont Area United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fremont Area United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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