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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.

$746k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Itemized grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$722k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$50,018
Largest grant, FY2025
$126,660
Organizations funded a year
12 to 20
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Rowan County United Way Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$722k0%
FY202414$803k0%
FY202314$1.1M14%
FY202212$882k0%
FY202118$1.4M22%
FY202020$1.3M65%
FY201916$961k6%
FY201816$1.0M6%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$5.0MHealth$1.2MEducation$734kYouth Development$403kPublic Safety & Disaster$320kCommunity Improvement$310kCrime & Legal$200kEmployment$192kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of Rowan County United Way Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Young Mens Christian Association of Rowan County Nc Inc$1,134,58393%
Families First-Nc Inc$1,066,135921%
The Salvation Army$912,8539n/a
One Love Community Programs Inc$907,825681%
Family Crisis Council of Rowan Inc$762,550919%
Nazareth Children's Home Inc$695,50064%
Boy Scouts of America Central Nc Council #416$403,04194%
Capstone Recovery Center Inc$369,992635%
Main Street Mission of China Grove$320,401627%
Communities in Schools of Rowan County$285,351632%
Rowan County Literacy Council Inc$261,988638%
The Arc$254,1783n/a
Rowan Helping Ministries$250,00032%
Rufty-Holmes Senior Center Inc$237,44695%
Rowan Vocational Opportunities Inc$191,74232%
Rowan County Rescue Squad Inc$158,56738%
Abundant Living Adult Day Services Inc$112,27136%
City of Salisbury$97,3072n/a
Smart Start Rowan Inc$95,5583n/a
American Red Cross-Rowan County$94,7003n/a
Meals on Wheels of Rowan$76,58839%
Rowan County Youth Services Bureau Inc$20,626110%
Bread Riot$5,2501n/a
Three Wide Foundation Inc$1,5001n/a
Project Cover Inc$1,0001n/a

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($570k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Rowan County United Way Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Young Mens Christian Association of Rowan County Nc Inc: $1,134,583 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetFamilies First-Nc Inc: $1,066,135 over 9y, 21% of budgetOne Love Community Programs Inc: $907,825 over 6y, 81% of budgetFamily Crisis Council of Rowan Inc: $762,550 over 9y, 19% of budgetNazareth Children's Home Inc: $695,500 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Central Nc Council #416: $403,041 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetCapstone Recovery Center Inc: $369,992 over 6y, 35% of budgetMain Street Mission of China Grove: $320,401 over 6y, 27% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Rowan County: $285,351 over 6y, 32% of budgetRowan County Literacy Council Inc: $261,988 over 6y, 38% of budgetRowan Helping Ministries: $250,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetRufty-Holmes Senior Center Inc: $237,446 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetRowan Vocational Opportunities Inc: $191,742 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetRowan County Rescue Squad Inc: $158,567 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetAbundant Living Adult Day Services Inc: $112,271 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Rowan: $76,588 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetRowan County Youth Services Bureau Inc: $20,626 over 1y, 9.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC36.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Rowan County United Way Inc

How much does Rowan County United Way Inc give?
Rowan County United Way Inc reported 13 itemized grants totaling $721,742, out of $745,843 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Rowan County United Way Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (58%), Health (14%), Education (9%).
Who are Rowan County United Way Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Young Mens Christian Association of Rowan County Nc Inc ($1.1M), Families First-Nc Inc ($1.1M), The Salvation Army ($913k).
Does Rowan County United Way Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rowan County United Way Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc, The Cannon Foundation Inc.
Where is Rowan County United Way Inc based?
Rowan County United Way Inc is based in NC.

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 38 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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