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Rappahannock United Way Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Rappahannock United Way Inc

Improving lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.

$417k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.5MHousing & Shelter$922kFood & Nutrition$848kHealth$698kCrime & Legal$672kReligion$393kRecreation & Sports$230kCivil Rights$226kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $181,270, the rows itemized in this filing. The $417,316 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $236,046 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 $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
$16,274
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FREDERICKSBURG REGIONAL FOOD BANK$67,770
SALAVATION ARMY HQ$22,020
THURMAN BRISBEN HOMELESS SHELTER$16,793
MICAH ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES INC$16,550
EMPOWERHOUSE$16,274
LLOYD MOSS FREE CLINC$15,150
CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES$10,184
LOISANNS HOPE HOUSE$9,583
MENTAL HEALTH OF AMERICA OF$6,946
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $561k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $17k → 14%QUINN RIVERS INC: $50k → 8%QUINN RIVERS INC: $35k → 8%QUINN RIVERS INC: $35k → 8%RAPPAHANNOCK ADULT ACTIVITIES: $23k → 8%RAPP REFUGE - HOPE HOUSE: $57k → 15%RAPP REFUGE - HOPE HOUSE: $48k → 15%RAPP REFUGE - HOPE HOUSE: $47k → 15%EMPOWERHOUSE: $21k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $20k → 8%EMPOWERHOUSE: $20k → 8%EMPOWERHOUSE: $19k → 8%EMPOWERHOUSE: $19k → 8%EMPOWERHOUSE: $19k → 8%EMPOWERHOUSE: $16k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $15k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $15k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $15k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $7k → 8%LOISANNS HOPE HOUSE: $18k → 15%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $15k → 15%LOISANNS HOPE HOUSE: $14k → 15%LOISANNS HOPE HOUSE: $10k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 25 repeat orgs$466k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against -56% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
29

Total granted

$5.6M
$466k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
-56%

Still filing today

88%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsHealthCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • FR
    FREDERICKSBURG REGIONAL FOOD BANK
    6× · 2017–2025 · $848k · revenue +122%
  • ME
    MICAH ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $440k · revenue +146%
  • E
    EMPOWERHOUSE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $367k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • CV
    CENTRAL VIRGINIA HOUSING COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue +50%
  • CS
    CHRISTIAN SERVICE CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $48k
  • MF
    MILITARY FAMILY AND VETERANS SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $44k · revenue -86%
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
Americas Best Charities

Americas best charities raises funds and awareness to improve life both locally and globally by aiding our diverse partner charities and encouraging supporters to contribute to their cause.

Philanthropy
2
Chc Creating Healthier Communities Local

We envision a world where every person in every community has an opportunity to live their healthiest life.

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3
Human Service Charities of America Inc

The mission of human service charities of america is to help human service charities gain access to workplace campaigns and to promote donor choice, administrative efficiency, and low overhead.

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4
Local Animal Charities of America

Local animal charities of america raises funds and awareness to improve the lives of animals by aiding our partner charities and encouraging supporters to contribute to their cause.

Recreation & Sports
5
Human & Civil Rights Organizations of America

We work with other nonprofits to help them increase their success in public-sector workplace charitable fund drives and other fundraising efforts. The federation screens applications for workplace drives, assists with the transfer of…

Civil Rights
6
For Children's Sake of Virginia Inc

For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.

Human Services
7
Federation of Virginia Food Banks

Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.

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8
Commonwealth Catholic Charities

To provide quality, compassionate human services to all people, especially the most vulnerable, regardless of faith, by empowering individuals, streghening families and building community through faith and service.

Human Services
9
Commonwealth Human Services Foundation

To support the activities of commonwealth catholic charities.

Religion
10
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
11
Goodwill Services Inc

To assist individuals with obstacles to employment achieve their highest degree of economic and personal independence. we achieve our mission through providing resources and other assistance which enables our customers to find work and…

Human Services
12
Charity Without Borders

Cwb operates as a charitable federation promoting and facilitating the pledging of voluntary contributions to its member charitable agencies in selected workplace payroll deduction campaigns.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Med Res Charities of Amer Dba Childrens Med & Res Char of Amer; the most unlike its peers is King George Fire and Rescue 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

52 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. 52 of the 56 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/52
Grantees still filing
22/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA: $392,699 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES USALEGAL AID WORKS: $241,156 · OtherLEGAL AID WORKSRAPPAHANNOCK AREA YMCA INC: $230,005 · OtherRAPPAHANNOCK AREA YMCA INCCHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES: $125,819 · OtherCHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIESTHE SALVATION ARMY: $95,932 · OtherSERVE INC: $85,343 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF FREDERICKSBURG: $257,821 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF FREDERICKSBURGRAPPAHANNOCK CASA INC: $226,484 · OtherRAPPAHANNOCK CASA INC+32 more: $674,912 · Other+32 moreEMPOWERHOUSE: $367,092 · Human ServicesEMPOWERHOUSELOISANN'S HOPE HOUSE: $192,994 · Human ServicesLOISANN'S HOPE HOU…THURMAN BRISBEN HOMELESS SHELTER INC: $172,542 · Human ServicesTHURMAN BRISBEN HO…Quin Rivers Incorporated: $120,000 · Human ServicesQuin Rivers Incorp…Children's Home Society of Virginia: $87,787 · Human ServicesChildren's Home So…+3 more: $47,338 · Human ServicesFREDERICKSBURG REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $847,998 · Food & NutritionFREDERICKSBURG …HEALTHY FAMILIES RAPPAHANNOCK AREA: $330,802 · HealthHEALTHY FA…FREDERICKSBURG AREA REGIONAL HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $221,617 · HealthFREDERICKS…STAFFORD JUNCTION INC: $305,218 · Youth DevelopmentSTAFFORD …BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS GREATER FREDERICKSBURG: $220,621 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTH…MICAH ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES INC: $439,776 · Housing & ShelterSAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $313,754 · Crime & LegalRAPPAHANNOCK COUNCIL AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT: $116,804 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,330,171Human Services$987,753Food & Nutrition$847,998Health$552,419Youth Development$525,839Housing & Shelter$439,776Crime & Legal$430,558

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 budgetFREDERICKSBURG REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $847,998 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetMICAH ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES INC: $439,776 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetEMPOWERHOUSE: $367,092 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetHEALTHY FAMILIES RAPPAHANNOCK AREA: $330,802 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetSAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $313,754 over 8y, 20% of budgetSTAFFORD JUNCTION INC: $305,218 over 8y, 17% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF FREDERICKSBURG: $257,821 over 9y, 19% of budgetLEGAL AID WORKS: $241,156 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetRAPPAHANNOCK AREA YMCA INC: $230,005 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRAPPAHANNOCK CASA INC: $226,484 over 8y, 18% of budgetFREDERICKSBURG AREA REGIONAL HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $221,617 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS GREATER FREDERICKSBURG: $220,621 over 8y, 12% of budgetLOISANN'S HOPE HOUSE: $192,994 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetTHURMAN BRISBEN HOMELESS SHELTER INC: $172,542 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES: $125,819 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetQuin Rivers Incorporated: $120,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetRAPPAHANNOCK COUNCIL AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT: $116,804 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetChildren's Home Society of Virginia: $87,787 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSERVE INC: $85,343 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetCENTRAL VIRGINIA HOUSING COALITION: $65,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE: $57,010 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFREDERICKSBURG REGIONAL SPCA: $52,414 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGREATER FREDERICKSBURG HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $51,747 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetMILITARY FAMILY AND VETERANS SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF AMERICA: $43,699 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetANIMAL CHARITIES OF AMERICA: $26,622 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGlobal Impact: $25,663 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH & MEDICAL RESEARCH CHARITIES OF AMERICA: $25,144 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $23,264 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAPPAHANNOCK ADULT ACTIVITIES INC: $23,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDRENS CHARITIES OF AMERICA: $19,070 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEARTHSHARE: $18,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMILITARY SUPPORT GROUPS OF AMERICA: $17,792 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $17,263 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF AMERICA: $14,377 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDRENS MED RES CHARITIES OF AMER DBA CHILDRENS MED & RES CHAR OF AMER: $11,115 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEDICAL RESEARCH CHARITIES INC: $11,052 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCANCERCURE OF AMERICA- CARE UNDERSTAND RESEARCH & END: $10,922 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICA'S CHARITIES: $10,652 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST - AMERICA'S CHARITIES: $10,464 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHRISTIAN CHARITIES USA: $8,421 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONSERVATION & PRESERVATION CHARITIES OF AMERICA DBA CONSERVE NOW: $8,349 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH FIRST - AMERICA'S CHARITIES: $6,544 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE FUND INC: $6,146 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKing George Fire and Rescue Inc: $5,990 over 1y, 27% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST - AMERICA'S CHARITIES: $5,816 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT UNITED WAY INC: $5,425 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CHARLES COUNTY INC: $5,374 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

Give Back FoundationCommunity Foundation …Federal Employees Sup…Global ImpactUnited Way of South H…The United Way of Cen…United Way of Greater…Campaigning for Chari…The United Way of the…United Way of Greater…United Way of Kitsap …United Way of Central…
Give Back FoundationWI52.4× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Give Back Foundation · Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region Inc · Federal Employees Support for Cfc Charitable Giving Incorporated · Global Impact · United Way of South Hampton Roads · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Campaigning for Charities · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · United Way of Kitsap County · United Way of Central Ohio Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 56 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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