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Inland Empire United Way

The mission of INLAND EMPIRE UNITED WAY is to engage the community to improve the lives and futures of those in need.

$411k
Granted FY2019
42
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.

Education$460kHuman Services$443kHousing & Shelter$413kYouth Development$135kCrime & Legal$97kFood & Nutrition$75kHealth$51kReligion$30kOther$0
02FY2019 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k23 grants · $136k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $275k
$7,497
Median grant
1
States reached
$180k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASA OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY$22,131
HOUSE OF RUTH INC$18,747
BRIGHT PROSPECT$18,747
ONTARIO-MONTCLAIR SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$18,747
SHOES THAT FIT$18,747
THINK TOGETHER$16,497
LEARNING CENTER FAIRPLEX THE$15,003
CHINO VALLEY UNIFIED$15,003
DAVID & MARGARET HOME$15,003
SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER$15,003
UNCOMMON GOOD$11,250
FOOTHILL FAMILY SHELTER$11,250
PARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION$11,250
MOSES HOUSE MINISTRIES$11,250
BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS INLAND EMPIRE$11,250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $367k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 12%DAVID & MARGARET HOME: $20k → 14%DAVID & MARGARET HOME: $15k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION REDLANDS: $10k → 14%SOWING SEEDS FOR LIFE: $8k → 14%SOWING SEEDS FOR LIFE: $8k → 14%DAVID & MARGARET HOME: $7k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION REDLANDS: $10k → 14%SOWING SEEDS FOR LIFE: $6k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION REDLANDS: $7k → 14%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER: $23k → 14%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER: $20k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH INC: $25k → 14%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER: $15k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $25k → 14%UNCOMMON GOOD: $20k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $19k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH INC: $19k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH INC: $18k → 14%UNCOMMON GOOD: $15k → 14%UNCOMMON GOOD: $11k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $10k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LA: $10k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LA: $7k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LA: $5k → 14%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING: $15k → 14%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING: $11k → 14%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 42 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
4

Total granted

$1.7M
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+203%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterReligionCivil RightsOther

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

  • IT
    Inland Temporary Homes
    3× · 2017–2019 · $234k · revenue +844%
  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCATES OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $97k · revenue +139%
  • OS
    ONTARIO-MONTCLAIR SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $69k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • MF
    MONTCLAIR FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • DM
    Desert Manna Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -48%
  • CO
    CITY OF UPLAND-UPLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2018 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Family Services of Tulare County Inc

The mission of Family Services is to help children, adults, and families throughout Tulare County heal from violence and thrive in healthy relationships. Family Services will accomplish this mission through direct services, advocacy,…

Human Services
2
Family Promise of Santa Clarita Valley

With assistance of volunteers from the community and faith groups, the organization works to assist homeless children and their families to achieve sustainable independence, while offering hope, compassion, and preserving individual…

Housing & Shelter
3
Pajaro Valley Shelter Services

Pajaro Valley Shelter Services provides families with a path toward self-sufficient futures through short-and longer-term housing and supportive services.

Human Services
4
The Samaritan Center-Simi Valley

The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.

Housing & Shelter
5
Central California Family Crisis Center

The Organization provides shelter, meals, clothing and counseling for victims of domestic violence, housing crisis, and/or poverty.

Human Services
6
California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified
7
Habitat for Humanity San Bernardino Area Inc

Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. To make low-cost home ownership available to low-income families.

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8
Human Services Association

The principal mission of Human Services Association is to provide families with compassionate and comprehensive care to promote wellness and build strong communities.

Human Services
9
Community Impact Central Valley

To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.

Health
10
Family Service Agency of San Bernardino

Family Service Agency of San Bernardino provides professional counseling, family education and supportive services to meet the challenge of contemporary societal conditions which affect families, individuals and organizations.

—
11
Inland Socal Housing Collective

Creating solutions to improve housing outcomes for renters, homebuyers, homeowners, and those experiencing homelessness through education, advocacy and access to resources in the inland socal region.

Housing & Shelter
12
Bethany House Services Inc

Bethany House Services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lmws Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Learning Centers at Fairplex. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr10%22%35–55yr12%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%41%20–35yr10%31%35–55yr12%20%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/49
the rest of the field
16%
9,200/57,100

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 48 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
32/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Inland Temporary Homes — $234,399 · OtherInland Temporary HomesCHILD ADVOCATES OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY — $97,131 · OtherCHILD ADVOCATES OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTYThe Learning Centers at Fairplex — $52,503 · OtherThe Learning Centers at FairplexFOOTHILL FAMILY SHELTER INC — $51,250 · OtherFOOTHILL FAMILY SHELTER INCCHINO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $45,003 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FONTANA — $43,750 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER REDLA RIVERSIDE — $42,497 · OtherPARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC — $41,250 · OtherHigh Desert Homeless Services Inc — $35,497 · OtherLMWS INC — $32,997 · Other+16 more — $282,829 · Other+16 moreHOUSE OF RUTH INC — $61,247 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF RUTH INCSAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER — $57,503 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN COUNSELING CEN…SHOES THAT FIT — $53,747 · Human ServicesSHOES THAT FITUNCOMMON GOOD — $46,250 · Human ServicesUNCOMMON GOODDavid and Margaret Home Inc — $42,003 · Human ServicesDavid and Margaret Home …HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION — $36,250 · Human ServicesHOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOU…Family Service Association of Redlands — $27,497 · Human ServicesFamily Service Associati…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC — $21,378 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LO…SOWING SEEDS FOR LIFE — $20,625 · Human ServicesSOWING SEEDS FOR LIFEONTARIO-MONTCLAIR SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $68,747 · EducationONTARIO-MONTCLAIR…BRIGHT PROSPECT — $68,747 · EducationBRIGHT PROSPECTTHINK TOGETHER — $56,497 · EducationTHINK TOGETHERBUILDING A GENERATION — $32,497 · EducationBUILDING A GENERA…POMONA HOPE — $17,497 · EducationPOMONA HOPECRAFTON HILLS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $14,003 · EducationClaremont Graduate University — $13,125 · EducationNEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP HOUSING SERVICES INC — $24,997 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS — $23,123 · Housing & ShelterVNACARE — $31,250 · HealthReach Out — $5,000 · HealthMOSES HOUSE MINISTRIES — $29,250 · ReligionVICTOR VALLEY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $17,128 · Civil Rights
Other$959,106Human Services$366,500Education$271,113Housing & Shelter$48,120Health$36,250Religion$29,250Civil Rights$17,128

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetInland Temporary Homes — $234,399 over 3y, 12% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY — $97,131 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetONTARIO-MONTCLAIR SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $68,747 over 3y, 10% of budgetBRIGHT PROSPECT — $68,747 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH INC — $61,247 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER — $57,503 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHINK TOGETHER — $56,497 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT — $53,747 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Learning Centers at Fairplex — $52,503 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFOOTHILL FAMILY SHELTER INC — $51,250 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetUNCOMMON GOOD — $46,250 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FONTANA — $43,750 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER REDLA RIVERSIDE — $42,497 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDavid and Margaret Home Inc — $42,003 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC — $41,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION — $36,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHigh Desert Homeless Services Inc — $35,497 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLMWS INC — $32,997 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetBUILDING A GENERATION — $32,497 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC — $31,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVNACARE — $31,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SISTER FAMILY SERVICES — $29,997 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMOSES HOUSE MINISTRIES — $29,250 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFamily Service Association of Redlands — $27,497 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetST JOHN OF GOD HEALTH CARE SERVICES — $25,753 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP HOUSING SERVICES INC — $24,997 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS — $23,123 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC — $21,378 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOWING SEEDS FOR LIFE — $20,625 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBLYTHE EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY — $19,247 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetPOMONA HOPE — $17,497 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetVICTOR VALLEY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $17,128 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCRAFTON HILLS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $14,003 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetClaremont Graduate University — $13,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVICTOR VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL — $12,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCitrus Counseling Services Inc — $8,753 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDesert Manna Inc — $6,003 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetReach Out — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL SCIENCE SERVICES INC — $3,753 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHigh Desert Second Chance — $2,856 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

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.

Kaiser Foundation Hos…Inland Empire Communi…Weingart FoundationMajestic Realty Found…The Ralph M Parsons F…The Rose Hills Founda…Mufg Union Bank Found…The Ahmanson Foundati…Union Pacific Foundat…The Rauch Family Foun…IEHP FoundationCalifornia Community …
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA49.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Majestic Realty Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · The Ahmanson Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · The Rauch Family Foundation · IEHP Foundation · California Community 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 Inland Empire 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.7M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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