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The United Way of Deaf Smith County Inc

The united way of deaf smith county, inc is a nonprofit voluntary health and welfare service organization, for the purpose of benevolent and charitable purposes through annual voluntary pledges, gifts, and receipts to support agencies in deaf smith county.

$161k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
—
States reached
$38k
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 2024.

Human Services$338kRecreation & Sports$155kYouth Development$87kFood & Nutrition$76kHealth$16kCommunity Improvement$6kArts & Culture$6k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $152,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $160,750 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,000 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
$14,750
Median grant
—
States reached
$315k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEREFORD SPORTS AND WELLNESS$38,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$19,000
DEAF SMITH COUNTY CRISIS CENTER$16,500
GREAT PLAINS CASA FOR KIDS INC$16,000
HEREFORD FOOD PANTRY$15,500
SENIOR CITIZENS-HOME DELIVERY$14,750
TEXAS MENTAL HEALTH$8,000
HEREFORD DAY CARE$7,000
HEREFORD SATELLITE CENTER$6,000
THE BRIDGE$6,000
SALVATION ARMY$6,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 20%HEREFORD & VICINITY YMCA INC: $38k → 17%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $17k → 17%HEREFORD SENIOR CITIZENS: $13k → 17%DEAF SMITH CO CRISIS CENTER: $13k → 17%GREAT PLAINS CASA FOR KIDS: $12k → 17%HEREFORD FOOD PANTRY: $11k → 17%SNACK PAK 4 KIDS: $8k → 17%SALVATION ARMY: $8k → 17%TPMHMR: $8k → 17%HEREFORD DAY CARE INC: $7k → 17%HEREFORD SATELLITE WORKSHOP: $6k → 17%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$545k · 10 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$545k
$124k

Still filing today

0%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • HS
    HEREFORD SPORTS AND WELLNESS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $155k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $71k
  • DS
    DEAF SMITH COUNTY CRISIS CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $59k

Funded once

  • HV
    HEREFORD & VICINITY YMCA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $38k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF HEREFORD TEXAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +73%
  • DS
    DEAF SMITH COUNTY CRISIS CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +148%
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
4/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEREFORD SPORTS AND WELLNESS: $154,500 · OtherHEREFORD SPORTS AND WELLNESSBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $70,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSDEAF SMITH COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $58,500 · OtherDEAF SMITH COUNTY CRISIS CENTERGREAT PLAINS CASA FOR KIDS INC: $57,000 · OtherGREAT PLAINS CASA FOR KIDS INCHEREFORD FOOD PANTRY: $57,000 · OtherHEREFORD FOOD PANTRYSENIOR CITIZENS-HOME DELIVERY: $54,250 · OtherSENIOR CITIZENS-HOME DELIVERYSALVATION ARMY: $40,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYHEREFORD & VICINITY YMCA INC: $38,000 · OtherHEREFORD & VICINITY YMCA INCHEREFORD DAY CARE: $25,000 · Other+9 more: $92,000 · Other+9 moreDEAF SMITH COUNTY CRISIS CENTER INC: $13,000 · PhilanthropyHEREFORD FOOD PANTRY: $11,000 · PhilanthropyGREAT PLAINS CASA FOR KIDS INC: $12,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$647,250Philanthropy$24,000Crime & Legal$12,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF HEREFORD TEXAS INC: $16,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetDEAF SMITH COUNTY CRISIS CENTER INC: $13,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetGREAT PLAINS CASA FOR KIDS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 4.6% 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.

  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF HEREFORD TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds DEAF SMITH COUNTY CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT PLAINS CASA FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEREFORD FOOD PANTRY ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amarillo Area Foundation IncTX13.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    Find your warmest path to The United Way of Deaf Smith County Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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