· Public charity
Rowan County United Way Inc
To lead the community by mobilizing resources making a lasting impact for those in need and shape a better future for everyone.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $204k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $599k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILIES FIRST NC | $140,733 |
| ONE LOVE COMMUNITY PROGRAM | $131,750 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $99,000 |
| FAMILY CRISIS COUNCIL | $63,000 |
| CAPSTONE RECOVERY | $57,285 |
| ROWAN COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL | $55,575 |
| SALISBURY POLICE DEPARTMENT | $51,500 |
| NAZARETH CHILD & FAMILY | $45,000 |
| ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES | $41,667 |
| ROWANCABARRUS YMCA | $40,500 |
| ROWANSALISBURY SCHOOL | $27,000 |
| BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $22,500 |
| RUFTYHOLMES SENOIR CENTER | $15,750 |
| MAIN STREET MISSION | $11,250 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 10 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 FY2024, 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
- FFFAMILIES FIRST-NC INC8× · 2017–2024 · $939k · revenue +40%
- OLONE LOVE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $789k · revenue +94% · 81% of their budget
- FCFAMILY CRISIS COUNCIL OF ROWAN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $706k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $66k
- CRCOVID-19 RELIEF GRANTSone grant, 2020 · $59k
- CGCI GRANT-CAPSTONE RECOVERYone grant, 2019 · $47k
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.
Promoting economic and industrial development in rowan county, north carolina
Providing primary health care and professional counseling services to all indviduals who need it.
Provides medical, dental and pharmaceutical care to uninsured or underserved rowan county residents using paid and volunteer medical professionals and skilled support staff.
To reduce youth substance use; to educate and raise awareness of drug issues; to promote community involvement; and to strengthen community partnerships and prevention strategies in Roane County.
To lead the community by mobilizing resources making a lasting impact for those in need and shape a better future for everyone.
Provide a program to assist youth in developing qualities of citizenship, discipline, teamwork, sportmanship and physical well-being through organized baseball and softball games. rowan little league is organized under little league…
Promote the industrial, commercial, agricultural, economic, civic and social welfare of the people of salisbury and rowan county north carolina
To care for and provide homes for unwanted animals and to provide pet food to families in need.
To provide relief of poverty, unemployment and underemployment for persons in rowan county caused in part by the substantial job loss related to the downfall of textile manufacturing and other manufacturing industries
Provide a community owned and operated shelter for a safe haven from domestic violence for women and their children in beaufort county, nc. provide counseling and guidance to allow these women to make decisions about their future.
Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.
The restoration house wnc seeks to provide a holistic approach to restoring life and hope to the outcasts and others in need of healing who come to us for help.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rowan County Youth Services Bureau Inc and the most unlike its peers is Main Street Mission of China Grove. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 38 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 THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROWAN COUNTY NC INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST-NC INC ↗
- Who funds ONE LOVE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS COUNCIL OF ROWAN INC ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CENTRAL NC COUNCIL #416 ↗
- Who funds CAPSTONE RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET MISSION OF CHINA GROVE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ROWAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RUFTY-HOLMES SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ROWAN COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds Abundant Living Adult Day Services Inc ↗
- Who funds SMART START ROWAN INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ROWAN ↗
- Who funds ROWAN COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD RIOT ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Joe L & Hester Sims Family Foundation · Novant Health Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Clifford a & Lillian C Peeler Foundation Inc · The Wilson L Smith Family Foundation the Smith Foundation · Rowan Regional Medical Center Inc · The Hurley-Trammell Foundation · Mariam & Robert Hayes Charitable Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Rowan County 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.
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.