· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $106k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ENNIS | $115,000 |
| ENNIS GOLDEN CIRCLE SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER | $40,000 |
| HELPING HANDS OF ENNIS | $30,000 |
| A-CROSS | $21,000 |
| ELLIS COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $15,000 |
| GIVE-A-KID-A-CHANCE | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $352k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ENNIS9× · 2017–2025 · $824k · revenue +30%
- HHHELPING HANDS OF ENNIS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $392k · revenue +237%
- ACA Christian Response of Shelter And Service9× · 2017–2025 · $317k · revenue +64% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ENNIS PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $7k
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.
Our goal is to provide a comfortable place for seniors to congregate to have a meal, participate in card games, board games, watch TV, or simply sit and chat or read. Additional activities will be offered such as lunch and a movie or…
Provide basic food essentials to individuals and families in need in local community through voluntary contributions from individuals and organiztions.
Meals for the elderly of crockett county, texas
Provide meals on wheels, congregate meals, and recreational facility for elderly and low income persons of dawson county texas.
The Muleshoe Meals on Wheels purpose is to engage in all activities necessary, useful, or expedient, through operative measures and active organizations, to promote and further the interests of the Senior citizens of the area. The purpose…
End homelessness in East Texas, & Community Collaboration
Provide Senior Citizens daily activity programs and nutrition. A thrift shop is operated to partially support the activities.
Offers programs & services to older persons such as meals, house keeping, yard work, public transportation, and social activities.
Provide home delivered meals and transportation services free of charge
To provide services designed to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims by providing for immediate, short, and long-term needs.
To assist Veterans of all ages & service era & their families navigate through the network of public & private agencies to obtain assistance service & support to establish & maintain productive lifestyles within the North Texas communities.
Provide activities, essential services and assistance for 30 to 40 senior citizens 5 days a week 5 days a week. this includes: meals and social activities, such as dancing, bingo, movies.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 10 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ENNIS ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF ENNIS INC ↗
- Who funds A Christian Response of Shelter And Service ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CIRCLE ACTIVITIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIS COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds RUNNIN FREE RANCH ↗
- Who funds MISSION ENNIS BRIDGE BUILDERS ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Greater Ennis United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Ennis United Way. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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