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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.

$77k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$73kFood & Nutrition$54kCrime & Legal$26kHousing & Shelter$25kHealth$25kPhilanthropy$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$22kYouth Development$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $24,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $76,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $52,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$98k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER$6,000
MEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRIES$6,000
THE LIBRARY AT CEDAR CREEK LAKE$6,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$6,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 12%LOVE IN ACTION- HENDERSON CO HOMELESS: $12k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 12%EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER: $6k → 12%UNITED WAY HELP LINE: $11k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 12%UW ASSIST FOR ELDERLY & CHILDREN: $11k → 13%UW ASSIST FOR ELDERLY & CHILDREN: $9k → 13%UW ASSIST FOR ELDERLY & CHILDREN: $8k → 13%LILA LANELIFE RECOVER TRAINING: $8k → 13%LOVE IN ACTION- HENDERSON CO HOMELESS: $7k → 13%CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $7k → 13%LOVE IN ACTION- HENDERSON CO HOMELESS: $6k → 13%UNITED WAY HELP LINE: $6k → 13%UNITED WAY HELP LINE: $5k → 13%CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 13%CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$262k · 10 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$262k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+349%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCivil RightsEnvironmentHealthEducationOther
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

  • HC
    HENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $67k · revenue +44%
  • FA
    FAITH AT WORK MINISTRIES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +20%
  • HC
    Henderson County Homeless Ministry
    3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • DC
    DISCIPLES CLINIC OF ATHENS TEXAS
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
  • LL
    LILA LANE OUTREACH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +349%
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.

1
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
2
Homeless Outreach Mitigation and Emergency Center

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

Human Services
3
Hendrick Home for Children
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4
Under the Bridge Ministries Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Bridge Ministries of Bryan Texas

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.

Religion
6
Lighthouse of Tallapoosa County in

Rehabilitation facility for alcoholics

Health
7
Shelter Agencies for Families in East Texas

To provide shelter to abused families.

Human Services
8
Tex Elderly Housing Inc
—
9
Atx Helps

ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.

Human Services
10
Lake Travis Crisis Ministries

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.

Human Services
11
Central Texas Pregnancy Care Center

Pregnancy counseling

Human Services
12
Border Missions

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.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Disciples Clinic of Athens Texas; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER INC: $67,000 · Human ServicesHENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER INCHenderson County Homeless Ministry: $25,250 · Human ServicesHenderson County Homeless MinistryAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $21,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Cha…LILA LANE OUTREACH INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesLILA LANE OUTREACH INCEAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS 4-H: $21,301 · OtherTEXAS 4-HALZHEIMER'S COALITION: $17,500 · OtherALZHEIMER'S COALITIONATHENS SAMARITANS INC: $15,000 · OtherATHENS SAMARITANS INCFAITH AT WORK MINISTRIES: $30,000 · Food & NutritionFAITH AT WORK MINIST…MEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC: $23,500 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS MINI…CASA OF TRINITY VALLEY INC: $25,750 · Civil RightsCASA OF TR…EAST TEXAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $15,050 · EnvironmentDISCIPLES CLINIC OF ATHENS TEXAS: $7,500 · HealthTHE LIBRARY AT CEDAR CREEK LAKE: $6,000 · Education
Human Services$127,250Other$53,801Food & Nutrition$53,500Civil Rights$25,750Environment$15,050Health$7,500Education$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER INC: $67,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFAITH AT WORK MINISTRIES: $30,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCASA OF TRINITY VALLEY INC: $25,750 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHenderson County Homeless Ministry: $25,250 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC: $23,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $21,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST TEXAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $15,050 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetATHENS SAMARITANS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetDISCIPLES CLINIC OF ATHENS TEXAS: $7,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLILA LANE OUTREACH INC: $7,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY AT CEDAR CREEK LAKE: $6,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
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.

East Texas Communitie…Athens Thrift Store I…Effie and Wofford Cai…Ben and Maytee Fisch …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
East Texas Communities FoundationTX24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Henderson County United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henderson County United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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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    How do I get to Henderson County United Way?

    Find your warmest path to Henderson County United Way through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 14 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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