How much did METRO UNITED WAY INC grant in FY2025?

Human Services$25MEducation$2.7MHealth$2.1MRecreation & Sports$2.0MCivil Rights$1.9MArts & Culture$1.5MReligion$995kYouth Development$991kPhilanthropy$840kOther$20M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

floydmenbestjeffersonmultiplebehavioraldaycare

2021

writingdisadvantagedyouth educationshelter foodfood clothinginstitutionbusiness

2022

after tutoringinstitutionjusticeliteracyseniorslearningcitizens

2023

becomewelcomesecuredirspaidfeesitems

2024

building beneficiarysuccess rfpblpp rfpfarmers feedingyouth successleaderallocation

2025

success supplementalblack lovebuilding beneficiarysuccess rfpyouth successmapotheraction

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 124 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k24 grants · $166k
$10k–50k80 grants · $1.6M
$50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
$250k+3 grants · $1.9M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$46M

Total assets

Largest grants

The Louisville Orchestra$1,000,000
Kentucky Youth Advocates$575,000
Play Cousins Inc$327,793
The Salvation Army of Southern Indiana$162,427
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky$158,104
Jefferson County Public School Early Childhood$104,500
South Louisville Community Ministries$100,000
Apprisen$91,389
Family Scholar House Inc$87,500
Louisville Urban League Inc$87,427
YMCA of Greater Louisville Inc$80,827
Americana World Community Center$80,000
AMPED$72,500
Shelby County Public Schools$70,000
Kentucky Refugee Ministries$60,000

02The need

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 (FY18–25, $11.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 13%. 85% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$55M · 186 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

186 repeat relationships — 87 still active in FY2025, 99 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

186

Total granted

$55M

$990k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+8%

Still filing today

75%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

AR
American Red Cross
7× · 2018–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +9%
FA
Family And Children'S Place
7× · 2018–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +161%
YO
Ymca Of Greater Louisville Inc
8× · 2018–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +8%

Funded once

HF
Habitat for Humanity Clark Floyd Co In Incgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +122%
S
SIEOCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +38%
DT
Dare To Care
one grant, 2019 · $53k · revenue -53% · 83% of their budget

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.

Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership Inc

To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.

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Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy

To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.

Crime & Legal

Child Care Council of Kentucky Inc

The child care council of kentucky is a visible community resouce committed to offering access to affordable, quality care and education. we pledge to promote, expand, and enhance services that improve the quality of life for all children,…

Human Services

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education

Family Nurturing Center of Kentucky

The mission of Family Nurturing Center is to end the cycle of child abuse by promoting individual well-being and healthy family relationships. We envision a world with safe children, thriving families and nurturing communities and offer a…

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Community Action Kentucky Inc

To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education and a sustainable home.

Community Improvement

Central Kentucky Community Action

This organization runs both federal and state programs which focus on improving the lives of low income recipients.

Human Services

Ky Access to Justice Commission Inc

Provided access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky.

Crime & Legal

Worksite Wellness Council of Louisville

Health

Casa of South Central Kentucky Inc

Recruit, screen, train, supervise and support advocates to assist disadvantaged youth in the court system.

Crime & Legal

Louisville Recovery Community Connections Inc

Increasing public awaremeness and decrease stigmas and injustices through support services, educations, training, and advocacy.

Health

Community Action of East Central Indiana

To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clark County Youth Shelter and Family Se and the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%8/297

the rest of the field

13%

586/4,648

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.

05the grantee network

207 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

192/207

Grantees still filing

144/207

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$24,593,614Other$22,580,426Education$2,746,238Health$2,066,866Recreation & Sports$1,996,676Civil Rights$1,926,543Arts & Culture$1,462,526

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of LouisvilleKY173.9× affinity109 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville · The Community Foundation Of · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · C E and S Foundation Inc · Evolve502 Inc

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 organisation METRO 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Robert Jamison Ministries Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 274782044 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Robert Jamison Ministries Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 93% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Metro United Way Inc?

Find your warmest path to Metro United Way Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

METRO UNITED WAY INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

207 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Metro United Way Inc?

More from the funding graph

METRO UNITED WAY INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

207 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Metro United Way Inc?

More from the funding graph