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The United Way of Southwest Missouri

The organization provides allocations to other community agencies to serve the community and its citizens, and offers various support to parents and children in the community.

$364k
Granted FY2021
15
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2021.

Human Services$651kHealth$530kYouth Development$311kPublic Safety & Disaster$295kHousing & Shelter$230kCrime & Legal$164kEducation$103kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2021 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $328,611, the rows itemized in this filing. The $364,011 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,400 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k2 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $248k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$17,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB JOPLIN$62,451
LAFAYETTE HOUSE$47,000
REGIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE$37,500
COMMUNITY CLINIC$24,660
SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER$19,000
CHILDRENS HAVEN OF SW MO$18,000
FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$17,000
WESLEY HOUSE$17,000
JOPLIN NALA$17,000
JOPLIN FAMILY Y$14,000
CHILDRENS CENTER$14,000
LEGAL AID OF WESTERN MO$13,000
CEREBRAL PALSY OF TRI COUNTY$10,000
PITTSBURG FAMILY Y$9,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES SEK$9,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $376k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Baxter Springs Ministerial Alliance: $3k → 16%Safehouse Crisis Center: $25k → 18%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER: $25k → 18%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $24k → 18%Family Resource Center: $24k → 18%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER: $23k → 18%YMCA SEK: $23k → 18%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $22k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SEK: $21k → 18%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER: $20k → 18%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER: $19k → 18%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $17k → 18%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $17k → 18%PITTSBURG FAMILY Y: $16k → 18%PITTSBURG FAMILY Y: $16k → 18%PITTSBURG FAMILY Y: $15k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SEK: $10k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SEK: $9k → 18%PITTSBURG FAMILY Y: $9k → 18%Joplin Family Y: $31k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SEK: $5k → 18%Catholic Charities-SEK: $2k → 18%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 20 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
12

Total granted

$2.2M
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+67%

Still filing today

75%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthHousing & ShelterYouth 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

  • FS
    FAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $276k · revenue +0%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
    5× · 2017–2021 · $136k · revenue +332%
  • SC
    SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $112k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TF
    TRI-STATE FAMILY YMCAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $24k · revenue +125%
  • AR
    American Red Cross
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • HM
    HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -76%
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.

1
Community Health Center of Se Kansas Inc

To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.

Health
2
Family Service and Guidance Center of Topeka Inc

Family service and guidance center provides quality behavioral healthcare to children and families. vision: family service and guidance center shall be the premier, outcomes-focused children and family behavioral healthcare center that…

Health
3
Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas

To provide dynamic, culturally-sensitive, high quality behavioral healthcare to residents of chase, coffey, greenwood, lyon, morris, osage and wabaunsee counties in the most effective, caring and efficient manner.

Health
4
Sunlight Children's Services Inc

To protect and nurture children at risk by developing, supporting, serving, and protecting the interests of children.

—
5
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
6
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
7
Disability Rights Center of Kansas Inc

Zealously advocating for the disability rights of kansans to protect their full participation as citizens.

Civil Rights
8
Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center

To provide and advocate for the highest quality whole-person care to improve the health and quality of life in our communities.

Health
9
Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies

Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.

Environment
10
Dui Victims Center of Kansas Inc

Reduce the impact an impaired driving crash has on victims, survivors and their families, and increase awareness of the traumatic human consequences of the choice to drive impaired

Education
11
Children's Center

Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.

—
12
Kansas Children's Discovery Center Inc

The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Self Help Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Southeast Kansas Respite Service 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

27 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. 27 of the 33 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Boys and Girls Club Joplin: $353,330 · OtherBoys and Girls Club JoplinFAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC: $275,679 · OtherFAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INCCEREBRAL PALSY OF TRI COUNTY: $267,520 · OtherCEREBRAL PALSY OF TRI COUNTYREGIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE: $191,934 · OtherREGIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARECOMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $135,759 · OtherCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURIChildrens Haven: $109,292 · OtherChildrens HavenFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $105,799 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHJOPLIN NALA: $87,594 · Other+11 more: $119,761 · Other+11 moreSAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC: $111,903 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENT…FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $104,641 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESOURCE CENTE…JOPLIN FAMILY Y: $87,274 · Human ServicesJOPLIN FAMILY YYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURG: $78,843 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN …CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $47,296 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES IN…+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesLegal Aid of Western Missouri: $87,382 · Crime & LegalTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF SOUTHWEST: $74,206 · Crime & LegalTRI-STATE FAMILY YMCA: $23,811 · Housing & ShelterGIRL SCOUTS OF THE MISSOURI HEARTLAND INC: $16,443 · Youth DevelopmentSPRING RIVER MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC: $2,600 · HealthDCCCA INC: $1,500 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $1,111 · HealthSPARKWHEEL INC: $2,500 · Education
Other$1,646,668Human Services$432,957Crime & Legal$161,588Housing & Shelter$23,811Youth Development$16,443Health$5,211Education$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC: $275,679 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCEREBRAL PALSY OF TRI COUNTY: $267,520 over 5y, 15% of budgetREGIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE: $191,934 over 5y, 100% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $135,759 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetSAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC: $111,903 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $104,641 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetJOPLIN NALA: $87,594 over 5y, 30% of budgetLegal Aid of Western Missouri: $87,382 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJOPLIN FAMILY Y: $87,274 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURG: $78,843 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF SOUTHWEST: $74,206 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetJOPLIN ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $51,206 over 4y, 23% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $47,296 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-STATE FAMILY YMCA: $23,811 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE MISSOURI HEARTLAND INC: $16,443 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $13,385 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOZARK TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #306: $12,220 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF KANSAS INC: $9,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetHOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSOUTHEAST KANSAS MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetSPRING RIVER MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC: $2,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPARKWHEEL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDCCCA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $1,111 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Commerce Bancshares F…Cloyd a Carlin Charit…Freeman R Johnson Tru…Cragin Joy Spiva Char…Jean Jack and Mildred…Arvest FoundationFredrick G and Rebeka…W R Corley Memorial T…Carthage Area United …Kansas Health Foundat…The Sunderland Founda…
Community Foundation of Southeast KansasKS26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Cloyd a Carlin Charitable Trust · Freeman R Johnson Trust · Cragin Joy Spiva Charitable Trust · Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable Trust · Arvest Foundation · Fredrick G and Rebekah B Hughes Charitable · W R Corley Memorial Trust CO SMB Trust Services · Carthage Area United Way · Kansas Health Foundation · The Sunderland 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 The United Way of Southwest Missouri funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The United Way of Southwest Missouri. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 33 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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