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Monroe County United Way Fund Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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Monroe County United Way Fund Inc

We help people by raising funds and supporting programs that provide opportunity and create lasting change in our community.

$103k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Youth Development$148kPublic Safety & Disaster$109kHuman Services$101kEducation$94kFood & Nutrition$80kHealth$75kCrime & Legal$57kReligion$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $99,143, the rows itemized in this filing. The $102,864 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,721 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$434k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONROE COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD$16,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$15,000
SWEETWATER AREA MINISTRIES$15,000
DC SENIOR NUTRITION$10,000
TRI COUNTY CENTER$9,000
CASA MONROE$8,000
OUR PLACE$7,500
BIRTH TO FIVE$6,000
YOUNG LIFE UW CHILDRENS FUND$3,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$3,000
SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE$3,000
UNITED WAY CANCER FUND$2,400
Individual grant recipient$743
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 (FY18–25, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%SWEETWATER AREA MINISTRIES: $15k → 15%SWEETWATER AREA MINISTRIES: $12k → 15%SWEETWATER AREA MINISTRIES: $10k → 15%SWEETWATER AREA MINISTRIES: $10k → 15%MONROE COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS AND F: $12k → 15%CASA MONROE: $10k → 15%CASA MONROE: $9k → 15%CASA MONROE: $8k → 15%CASA MONROE: $8k → 15%CASA MONROE: $8k → 15%CASA MONROE: $7k → 15%CASA MONROE: $7k → 15%MONROE COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS AND F: $5k → 15%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$716k · 18 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
3

Total granted

$716k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+122%

Still filing today

89%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationPublic Safety & DisasterHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • DC
    DOUGLAS CHEROKEE ECONOMIC AUTHORITY INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $116k · revenue +7%
  • MC
    MONROE COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD
    8× · 2018–2025 · $109k · revenue +81%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE REGION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • SE
    SWEETWATER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $10k
  • MA
    MONROE AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTSgraduated
    2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +122%
  • S
    SVCA
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
Monroe Senior Citizens Center Inc

To provided services to seniors

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2
Monroe County Sheltercare Inc

To assist at-risk individuals

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3
Monroe-Union County Community

To help all union county nc residents gain access to affordable housing, decent jobs, and to develop a sense of security.

Housing & Shelter
4
Monroevillemonroe County Economic Development Auth

Economic development authority for monroeville, al and monroe county.

Community Improvement
5
Monroe County Business Development Corporation

Growing monroe county's economy by creating new and diversified job opportunities for its citizens.

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6
Monroe County Meals On Wheels Inc

Monroe county meals on wheels provides meals to individuals who are substantially homebound due to physical or mental challenges and are unable to shop and/or prepare meals for themselves.

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7
Monroe County Youth Employment Service Inc

Monroe county youth employment service, inc. (yes) provided leadership, career exploration, and employability, and entrepreneurial training. the program activities encouraged youth ages 12-14 to take an active role in their future career.…

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8
United Way of Monroe County

Collect & distribute funds to approved agencies in monroe county alabama

Philanthropy
9
Monroe Senior and Community Center

To provide services and programs for residents of monroe, iowa area that promote their wellbeing, support their independence and encourage their involvement in community life.

Human Services
10
Moore County Senior Citizens Inc

The senior citizens center offers recreation, information assistance, fellowship, health services, and education to senior citizens in moore county.

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11
Monroe County Casa Inc

Form 990 - organizations mission monroe county casa, inc. recruits, trains and supervises court appointed volunteers to advocate for children who are involved in juvenile court due to abuse or neglect. volunteer advocacy is based on the…

Crime & Legal
12
Monroe Tri-Community Volunteer Fire Department Inc

To cooperate with one another for our mutual safety and the protection of our community and to discuss and promote medthods of fire prevention and suppression.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monroe County Senior Citizens and Friends Inc; the most unlike its peers is Project Red. 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

19 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. 19 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE REGION: $75,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE …TRI-COUNTY CENTER: $55,500 · OtherTRI-COUNTY CENTERMONROE COUNTY UNITED WAY FUND INC: $11,000 · OtherMONROE COUNTY UNITED WAY F…SWEETWATER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherSWEETWATER EDUCATION FOUND…OUR PLACE: $7,500 · Other+5 more: $16,243 · Other+5 moreMONROE COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD: $109,100 · Public Safety & DisasterMONROE COUNTY RESCUE SQUA…THE GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER: $56,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE GOOD SHEPHERD CENTERSWEETWATER AREA MINISTRIES INC: $67,000 · Human ServicesSWEETWATER AREA MINISTRI…CASA MONROE INC: $57,400 · Human ServicesCASA MONROE INCMONROE COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS AND FRIENDS INC: $17,200 · Human ServicesMONROE COUNTY SENIOR CIT…SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE INC: $10,300 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASS…HOMELESS MANAGEMENT OF MONROE COUNTY: $6,400 · Human ServicesDOUGLAS CHEROKEE ECONOMIC AUTHORITY INC: $115,800 · EducationDOUGLAS CHEROKEE ECONO…TENNESSEE EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE: $32,600 · EducationTENNESSEE EDUCATIONAL …MONROE AREA YOUTH CENTER: $48,813 · Youth DevelopmentMONROE AREA…YOUNG LIFE: $12,200 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFEGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 557 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST: $11,500 · Youth DevelopmentGREAT SMOKY…MONROE CO COMMUNITY HEALTH ACCESS COMMITTEE INC: $19,600 · HealthProject RED: $5,090 · International
Other$175,243Public Safety & Disaster$165,100Human Services$158,300Education$148,400Youth Development$72,513Health$19,600International$5,090

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDOUGLAS CHEROKEE ECONOMIC AUTHORITY INC: $115,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMONROE COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD: $109,100 over 8y, 13% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE REGION: $75,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSWEETWATER AREA MINISTRIES INC: $67,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetCASA MONROE INC: $57,400 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetTHE GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER: $56,000 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetTRI-COUNTY CENTER: $55,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTENNESSEE EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE: $32,600 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMONROE CO COMMUNITY HEALTH ACCESS COMMITTEE INC: $19,600 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetMONROE COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS AND FRIENDS INC: $17,200 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $12,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 557 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST: $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMONROE COUNTY UNITED WAY FUND INC: $11,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE INC: $10,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS MANAGEMENT OF MONROE COUNTY: $6,400 over 2y, 21% of budgetProject RED: $5,090 over 2y, 0.7% 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.

  • Who funds DOUGLAS CHEROKEE ECONOMIC AUTHORITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MONROE COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE REGION ↗
  • Who funds SWEETWATER AREA MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA MONROE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MONROE AREA YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE ↗
  • Who funds MONROE CO COMMUNITY HEALTH ACCESS COMMITTEE INC ↗
  • Who funds MONROE COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS AND FRIENDS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 557 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST ↗
  • Who funds MONROE COUNTY UNITED WAY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMELESS MANAGEMENT OF MONROE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Project RED ↗
  • Who funds MONROE AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA ↗

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 Tennessee Founda…Athens Federal Founda…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
East Tennessee FoundationTN29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Tennessee Foundation · Athens Federal Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Monroe County United Way Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Monroe County United Way Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 24 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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