· Public charity
Greater Valdosta United Way Inc
Support community organizations of Lowndes Co., GA and surrounding areas.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $1,308,274 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,965,440 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $657,166 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $223k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Haven | $137,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $116,000 |
| Various Non-United Way agencies | $113,218 |
| LAMP | $85,000 |
| Children's Advocacy Center | $82,000 |
| America's Second Harvest Food Bank | $72,232 |
| Boy Scouts of America | $67,500 |
| Boys and Girls Club Sports Program | $66,000 |
| YMCA | $60,000 |
| Jacob's Ladder | $57,000 |
| Lowndes Advocacy Resource Center | $57,000 |
| Youth Impact Center | $55,000 |
| Girls on the Run | $55,000 |
| Partnership for Health Clinic | $54,000 |
| Living Bridges | $46,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $404k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 24%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 1 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 FY2024, 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
- BWBATTERED WOMENS SHELTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $649k · revenue +119%
- VCVALDOSTA-LOWNDES CO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $543k · revenue +81%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF VALDOSTA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $474k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- SRSOUTHSIDE RECREATION CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $18k
- LELOWNDES EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2023 · $8k · revenue +1%
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.
Assist individuals who are blind or visually impaired.
Support community organizations of Lowndes Co., GA and surrounding areas.
Provide homes for adults with developmental disabilities
Is to enhance the quality of life for all children and youth in Lowndes, County, through a comprehensive, coordinated community effort.
The statewide association of not-for-profit and other mission-driven organizations dedicated to providing quality housing, health care, community based and other related services for older Georgians. The mission of the association is to…
Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.
To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
To promote, assist and support the development, growth & continuation of children's advocacy centers in the state of Georgia.
Advocacy throughout the legal process for children in foster care and the provision of supervised visitation services for these children while in care.
Jones Alternative provides Therapeutic Residential Group Home services to female victims ofsexual trauma, including molestation, rape, incest, and human trafficking, who are underthe care of the Florida Department of Children and Families…
Orangeburg Area Boys & Girls Club serves youth at eight (8) sites throughout Orangeburg and Calhoun Counties, South Carolina with afterschool and summer programs.
The Georgia center for child advocacy's mission is to champion the needs of sexually and severely physically abused children through prevention, intervention, therapy, and collaboration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Southern Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Valdosta-Lowndes County Family Ymca (1456). Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 24 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 BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds VALDOSTA-LOWNDES CO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF VALDOSTA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SOUTH GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Valdosta-Lowndes County Family YMCA (1456) ↗
- Who funds LOWNDES ASSOCIATED MINISTRIES TO PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF LOWNDES CO INC ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America 98 South ↗
- Who funds Jacobs Ladder Therapeutic and Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Lowndes Advocacy Resource Center I ↗
- Who funds ACTO of Valdosta Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP ROCK OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH IMPACT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN SOUTH GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds Partnership Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Living Bridges Ministry ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF VALDOSTA GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE RECREATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOWNDES EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION 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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Harley Langdale Jr Foundation Inc · Barnes Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile 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 Greater Valdosta 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.