· Public charity
Henderson County United Way
To educate and raise funds for the education, health, and human service agencies by engaging residents, corporate citizens, and other stakeholders.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $24,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $76,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $52,500 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LIBRARY AT CEDAR CREEK LAKE | $6,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $6,000 |
| EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER | $6,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- HCHENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER INC3× · 2022–2024 · $67k · revenue +44%
- FAFAITH AT WORK MINISTRIES2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +20%
- HCHenderson County Homeless Ministry3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- LLLILA LANE OUTREACH INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +349%
- DCDISCIPLES CLINIC OF ATHENS TEXASone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
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.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
to reach functional zero homelessness in Hays County through outreach case management direct aid and emergency response while maintaining the dignity of the people we serve
We are a faith based non-profit organization that serves and cares for members in our community experiencing homelessness in the East Lancaster corridor of Fort Worth, TX. Every Sunday evening, we provide warm meals, drinks, clothes, hair…
To share Christ with others through serving those in need in the brazos valley and surrounding areas or wherever God leads and to bridge the gap by joining churches and other groups in serving together.
Rehabilitation facility for alcoholics
To provide shelter to abused families.
ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.
Meet the short-term needs of people in crisis situations by providing immediate help in the form of food & financial assistance. Long-term assistance may also be provided.
Pregnancy counseling
We distribute food, clothing, and toiletry items to the poor and needy along the TX-Mexico Border as well as ministering to their spiritual needs through services, health programs, and other humanitarian efforts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Disciples Clinic of Athens Texas and the most unlike its peers is East Texas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 14 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 HENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH AT WORK MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TRINITY VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Henderson County Homeless Ministry ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS SAMARITANS INC ↗
- Who funds LILA LANE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds DISCIPLES CLINIC OF ATHENS TEXAS ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY AT CEDAR CREEK LAKE ↗
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: East Texas Communities Foundation · Athens Thrift Store Inc · Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation · Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Henderson County United Way 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.
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