· Public charity
River Region United Way
The mission of the RIVER REGION UNITED WAY is to improve the quality of life in the communities it serves by creating lasting and sustainable changes in the community conditions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27 grants below total $1,232,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,377,733 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $145,233 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $394k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $830k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE RIVER REGION | $150,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER MONTGOMERY | $130,000 |
| 211 CONNECTS SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA | $100,000 |
| BRANTWOOD CHILDREN'S HOME | $100,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $90,000 |
| FAMILY SUNSHINE CENTER | $90,000 |
| FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER OF ALABAMA | $60,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA IN MONTGOMERY | $60,000 |
| CHILD PROTECT CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $50,000 |
| YMCA PRATTVILLE | $46,000 |
| MEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES | $35,000 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES | $30,000 |
| HOPE INSPIRED MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| SERVICE DOGS OF ALABAMA | $27,500 |
| FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER | $24,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 96% 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.
44 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 18 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 FY2025, 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +30%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $920k · revenue +5%
- MAMONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING9× · 2017–2025 · $691k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- GOGIFT OF LIFE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +20%
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.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
Established to serve as an advocate of children & to reduce the trauma & anxiety of victims of child abuse by providing coordinated multi- disciplinary & human approach to the investigation & interviewing process.
To educate, empower, and improve services for mental health consumers in the state of alabama.
Social services
Serves abused children through a comprehensive approach to services for abused children and their families.
Serving people with intellectual and/or other developmental disabilities and their families.
Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
Memphis recovery centers, inc. (mrc) provides compassionate treatment services for youth and adults suffering from substance addiction and co-occurring disorders, utilizing professional methods to improve spiritual, physical, emotional,…
The mission of the Arc of Tuscaloosa County is to provide activities to persons residing in Tuscaloosa County who have developmental or intellectual disabilities, which enable the individual to maintain previously acquired skills/behaviors…
Provides training for adults with developmental disabilities in an adult training setting and supervised alternative living arrangements for washington county, alabama
It is the mission of the family sunshine center to bring help, hope and healing to victims of family violence and/or sexual assault through a crisis line, emergency shelter, transitional housing, individual and group counseling,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Center of Montgomery Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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 51 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
37 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. 37 of the 45 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds HANDSON RIVER REGION ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA IN MONTGOMERY ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA FAMILY VIOLENCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRATTVILLE ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MONTGOMERY INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services of Montgomery ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Child Protect Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTAUGAWESTERN ELMORE ARC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ARC MONTGOMERY ↗
- Who funds TUKABATCHEE AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NELLIE BURGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AID TO INMATE MOTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SICKLE CELL FOUNDATION OF GREATER MONTGOMERY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INSPIRED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MONTGOMERY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds PASS THE NOBLE IDEA INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds CHEMICAL ADDICTIONS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BUTTERFLY BRIDGE CHILD ADVOCACY CEN ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY CANCER WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALETHEIA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA NON-TRADITIONAL EQUESTRI ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association 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 · Central Alabama Community Foundation Inc · Junior League of Montgomery Inc · Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · Alfa Foundation · Working Woman's Home Association Inc · Montgomery Area Community Wellness Coalition · Alabama Civil Justice Foundation · B Stephen Schloss 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 River Region 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.