How much does River Region United Way give?

River Region United Way reported 27 itemized grants totaling $1,232,500, out of $1,377,733 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does River Region United Way fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (47%), Health (18%), Youth Development (16%).

Who are River Region United Way's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys and Girls Club of the River Region Inc ($1.1M), Young Mens Christian Association ($920k), Children's Protective Association Inc ($813k).

Does River Region United Way fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as River Region United Way?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alabama Power Foundation Inc, Central Alabama Community Foundation Inc, Junior League of Montgomery Inc.

Where is River Region United Way based?

River Region United Way is based in AL.

River Region United Way

River Region United Way at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$1.4M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$150k

Largest

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$5.0MHealth$1.9MYouth Development$1.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$549kCrime & Legal$535kEmployment$476kEducation$196kFood & Nutrition$180kOther$0

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 27 grants below total $1,232,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,377,733 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $145,233 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 $10k1 grant · $9k
$10k–50k17 grants · $394k
$50k–250k9 grants · $830k

$27,500

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA IN MONTGOMERY	$60,000
FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER OF ALABAMA	$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

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$10M · 44 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$10M

$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%

+20%

Still filing today

73%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalEmploymentYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +30%
YM
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $920k · revenue +5%
MA
MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING
9× · 2017–2025 · $691k · revenue +43%

Funded once

GO
GIFT OF LIFE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +20%

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.

The Arc of Alabama Inc

The arc of alabama provides services to advocate and aid individuals with cognitive, intellectual, and developmental disabilities in the state of alabama.

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Nami Alabama Inc

Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness

Health

The Arc of Central Alabama Inc

Serving people with intellectual and/or other developmental disabilities and their families.

—

Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health

The Bridge Inc

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.

Health

The Arc of Southwest Alabama Inc

Provides training for adults with developmental disabilities in an adult training setting and supervised alternative living arrangements for washington county, alabama

Human Services

Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services

Goodwill Industries of Central Alabama

Goodwill industries provides training and employment for handicapped persons.

Employment

Southeast Alabama Child Advocacy Center

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.

Human Services

Memphis Recovery Centers Inc

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,…

Health

Child Advocacy Center of Cullman Inc

Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation

Human Services

Aids Alabama Inc

Aids alabama devotes its energy and resources statewide to helping people with hiv/aids live healthy, independent lives and works to prevent the spread of hiv.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Center of Montgomery Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/37

Grantees still filing

23/37

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$3,912,058Other$3,746,543Youth Development$1,112,640Health$898,933Crime & Legal$357,590Education$251,150Employment$143,600Animals$80,000

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

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.

Alabama Power Foundation IncAL43.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home