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Greater Ennis United Way

To improve the quality of life of all people by responding to priority health and human service needs through gathering and distributing community resources in an efficient and accountable manner.

$238k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$229k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$115,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$331k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Greater Ennis United Way funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPublic 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$229k0%
FY20247$229k0%
FY20238$256k25%
FY20227$233k0%
FY20217$239k14%
FY20207$242k0%
FY20197$243k0%
FY20187$235k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$824kHuman Services$452kHousing & Shelter$317kCrime & Legal$205kInternational$150kEducation$112kFood & Nutrition$51kAnimals$28k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys & Girls Club of Ennis$824,359920%
Helping Hands of Ennis Inc$392,200813%
A Christian Response of Shelter And Service$316,984926%
Golden Circle Activities Center Inc$210,099943%
Ellis County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc$204,91497%
Meals on Wheels North Central Texas Inc$50,95651%
Runnin Free Ranch$27,89647%
Mission Ennis Bridge Builders$26,000337%
Friends of the Ennis Public Library$6,7001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($79k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Greater Ennis United Way supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Club of Ennis: $824,359 over 9y, 20% of budgetHelping Hands of Ennis Inc: $392,200 over 8y, 13% of budgetA Christian Response of Shelter And Service: $316,984 over 9y, 26% of budgetGolden Circle Activities Center Inc: $210,099 over 9y, 43% of budgetEllis County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc: $204,914 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels North Central Texas Inc: $50,956 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetRunnin Free Ranch: $27,896 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetMission Ennis Bridge Builders: $26,000 over 3y, 37% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Greater Ennis United Way

How much does Greater Ennis United Way give?
Greater Ennis United Way reported 6 itemized grants totaling $229,000, out of $238,220 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Greater Ennis United Way fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (39%), Human Services (21%), Housing & Shelter (15%).
Who are Greater Ennis United Way's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Club of Ennis ($824k), Helping Hands of Ennis Inc ($392k), A Christian Response of Shelter And Service ($317k).
Does Greater Ennis United Way fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Ennis United Way?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Greater Ennis United Way based?
Greater Ennis United Way is based in TX.

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 10 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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