· Public charity
Lake Martin Area United Way
The LAKE MARTIN AREA UNITED WAY raises contributions and disburses funding for their "supported organizations" to benefit the local community.
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 $283,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $301,600 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,500 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $224k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $30,000 |
| TALLAPOOSA AID TO PEOPLE | $30,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CTR | $24,000 |
| ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS | $23,000 |
| ALEXANDER CITY RESCUE SQUAD | $15,000 |
| AREA REFERRAL & INFORMATION SERVICE | $15,000 |
| VOLUNTEER CONNECTIONS OF CENTRAL AL | $14,500 |
| TALLAPOOSA CO SHERIFF GIRLS RANCH | $14,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $13,000 |
| LAKE MARTIN TRAILBLAZERS | $13,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CTR | $12,000 |
| EMPOWERED TO CONQUER | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA | $10,000 |
| CAMP ASCCA | $9,600 |
| DARE-ALEXANDER CITY | $8,000 |
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, $525k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
25 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 4 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
- TATALLACOOSA AID TO PEOPLE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $270k · revenue +5% · 86% of their budget
- ACALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS8× · 2017–2024 · $164k · revenue +33%
- TCTRI COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENT8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAKE MARTIN AREA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +539%
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.
Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.
Support services for the mentally challenged of south talladega county in alabama.
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
Social services
The mission of the organization is to reduce the effects of proverty in walker county, al
To provide treatment and rehabilitative services for juveniles and adults in alabama through contracts primarily with the alabama department of youth services and the alabama department of mental health.
Assist economically disadvantaged persons in urban and rural communities of marion-winston county, alabama
Children's advocacy center
Assistance to needy and unemployed
Provide emergency assistance to individuals and families in Shelby County, Alabama. This includes food, medical and dental services, utilities, housing, case management, advocacy, information and referral, etc.
Southeast alabama youth services, inc. is a non-profit organization that provides counseling and housing to troubled youth of southeast alabama.
Provide housing for abused children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rape Counselors of East Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lighthouse of Tallapoosa County in. 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 26 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 TALLACOOSA AID TO PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds TRI COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENT ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LAKE MARTIN AREA ↗
- Who funds AREA REFERRAL & INFORMATION SERVICE FOR THE ELDERLY INC (ARISE) ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CONNECTIONS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds TUKABATCHEE AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER I ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds Alexander City SAFE Prevention Program Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING TREE INC ↗
- Who funds Bridgeways Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF TALLAPOOSA COUNTY IN ↗
- Who funds LAKE MARTIN TRAILBLAZERS INC ↗
- Who funds RAPE COUNSELORS OF EAST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Empowered to Conquer Youth Conferences lnc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAKE MARTIN AREA 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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Lake Martin Area 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.