How much does Great Rivers United Way Inc give?

Great Rivers United Way Inc reported 27 grants totaling $877,602 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Great Rivers United Way Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Health (21%), Youth Development (19%).

Who are Great Rivers United Way Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Family and Children's Center Inc ($1.0M), New Horizons Shelter and Outreach Centers Inc ($782k), Couleecap Inc ($713k).

Does Great Rivers United Way Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Great Rivers United Way Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include La Crosse Community Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, Mayo Clinic Group Return.

Where is Great Rivers United Way Inc based?

Great Rivers United Way Inc is based in WI.

Great Rivers United Way Inc

Great Rivers United Way Inc at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Great Rivers United Way Inc

Our mission is to unite people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

$878k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$99k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$3.6MHealth$2.1MYouth Development$1.9MFood & Nutrition$723kMembership Benefit$713kCommunity Improvement$419kPublic Safety & Disaster$232kEmployment$32kOther$0

02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $36k
$10k–50k15 grants · $371k
$50k–250k7 grants · $468k

$24,120

Median grant

States reached

$2.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER	$98,676
NEW HORIZONS SHELTER	$81,852
COULEECAP INC	$67,296
GREAT RIVERS 2-1-1	$60,672
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSSE	$55,512
WESTERN DAIRYLAND ECONOMIC OPPOR COUNCIL	$54,312
SALVATION ARMY	$50,004
COULEE REGION YWCA	$44,232
PARENTING PLACE	$41,400
WAFER	$35,496
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WEST CENTRAL WI	$35,496
COULEE COUNCIL ON ADDICTIONS	$31,944
HUNGER TASK FORCE OF LA CROSSE	$24,888
CIA SIAB INC	$24,120
FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY	$23,208

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

$9.6M · 29 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.6M

$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+28%

Still filing today

90%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementMembership BenefitOther

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

FA
FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +19%
NH
NEW HORIZONS SHELTER AND OUTREACH CENTERS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $782k · revenue +8%
CI
COULEECAP INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $713k · revenue +107%

Funded once

CC
COULEE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -20%
S
SEMCACgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +28%
FP
FAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC
one grant, 2020 · $9k

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.

West Central Community Action

In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services

Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc

To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.

Human Services

Cap Services Inc

Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.

Human Services

Able Inc

A b l e , inc (a brighter living experience, inc) is organized to provide residential care for developmentally disabled minnesota residents at its residential and intermediate care facilities located in houston county, minnesota. the…

Human Services

Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment

Family Promise of the Chippewa Valley Inc

Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.

Human Services

Community Care Health Plan Inc

Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.

Health

Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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Child Advocacy Center of Lapeer Co

To reduce the trauma to children during the investigation and intervention of alleged sexual and physical abuse by providing forensic interviews in a safe and child-friendly environment and to also provide prevention programs and services…

Human Services

West Central Initiative

Serving to improve west central minnesota through funding, programs, and technical assistance. vision of a vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable world starts here in west central minnesota.

Philanthropy

Wisconsin Rapids Family Center Inc

Our mission is to empower those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault and address the root causes of abuse in the community through education and advocacy.

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Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bluff Country Family Resources; the most unlike its peers is Cia Siab 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

32 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. 32 of the 34 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/32

Grantees still filing

23/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$2,334,747Health$1,824,910Youth Development$1,684,001Other$1,819,376Community Improvement$718,705Membership Benefit$713,101Food & Nutrition$655,326

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.

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.

La Crosse Community FoundationWI45× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: La Crosse Community Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · Alm Charities Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Lyche Family Foundation Inc · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · The Pmg Foundation Inc Agy - Uma 1035017881 · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · John & Kathy Reinhart Family 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 Great Rivers United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Great Rivers United Way Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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