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Inland Southern California United Way

The mission of united way of the inland valleys is to unite people, ideas, and resources with our community to improve lives.

$1.5M
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.

Philanthropy$3.4MHuman Services$182kReligion$58kHealth$52kEducation$46kCommunity Improvement$33kCivil Rights$24kArts & Culture$22kFood & Nutrition$21kOther$493k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $34,534 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,545,714 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,511,180 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$34,534
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF THE DESERT$34,534
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IFOSTER: $12k → 11%HOUSE OF RUTH INC: $10k → 14%IFOSTER: $10k → 11%ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%THE WYLIE CENTER: $10k → 11%JANET GOESKE: $7k → 11%The Carolyn E Wylie Center: $8k → 11%Janet Goeske Foundation: $7k → 11%THE WYLIE CENTER: $7k → 11%Walden Family Services: $10k → 11%WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 11%Operation Safe House Inc: $16k → 11%OPERATION SAFEHOUSE INC: $12k → 11%OPERATION SAFEHOUSE INC: $10k → 11%Creditorg Springboard: $12k → 11%COMMUNITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 25 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 25 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
28

Total granted

$4.1M
$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+42%

Still filing today

92%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyReligionArts & CultureOther

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

  • IS
    INLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNITED WAY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3.4M · revenue +57% · 38% of their budget
  • RC
    RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $44k · revenue +88%
  • T4
    THRIFTING 4 GIFTING
    4× · 2017–2020 · $42k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • SN
    SPRINGBOARD NONPROFIT CONSUMER CREDIT MANAGEMENT INC
    one grant, 2020 · $23k · revenue -3%
  • TF
    Thessalonika Family Services Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +497%
  • RA
    Riverside Arts Academygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +100%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Inland Temporary Homes

Aims to reduce countywide homelessness while addressing each family's personal struggle with perpetuating homelessness and poverty in their children. Provides both transitional shelter and rapid re-housing options in addition to…

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2
Inland Counties Regional Center Inc

Provide social services to people with developmental disabilities.

Human Services
3
Inland Behavioral & Health Services Inc

IBHS is dedicated to helping the community achieve and maintain general good health, education and welfare through commitment in providing excellent service in the areas of physical health care, substance abuse treatment, mental health…

Health
4
Inland Socal Housing Collective

Creating solutions to improve housing outcomes for renters, homebuyers, homeowners, and those experiencing homelessness through education, advocacy and access to resources in the inland socal region.

Housing & Shelter
5
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.

Housing & Shelter
6
Community Housing Options Integrated Community Employment & Social Services

Provide Independent Living Services for persons with developmental disabilities who want to live, work and socialize in the community. Including housing, assistance in entering the workforce, shopping, adult education and other community…

Human Services
7
Family Services of Tulare County Inc

The mission of Family Services is to help children, adults, and families throughout Tulare County heal from violence and thrive in healthy relationships. Family Services will accomplish this mission through direct services, advocacy,…

Human Services
8
Family Care Network Inc

The mission of the Family Care Network is to enhance the wellbeing of children, adults, and families in partnership with our community.

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9
Milestone House

Milestone House assists disadvantaged children and young adults, primarily those who come from the foster care system, by creating and implementing innovative programs that provide a variety of need services, including treatment services,…

Unclassified
10
Family Promise of Sacramento

To provide temporary shelter and assistance to homeless families, and also to provide rental assistance in an effort to prevent families from becoming homeless. Program goal is to assist the families in their efforts to become…

Education
11
On the Rise Inc

On the Rise Inc. is a nonprofit Resource Family Agency dedicated to improving the lives of children in foster care by providing services that recognize the diverse backgrounds of children and non-minor dependents based on trauma informed…

Housing & Shelter
12
Human Services Association

The principal mission of Human Services Association is to provide families with compassionate and comprehensive care to promote wellness and build strong communities.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Riverside Arts Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health and Wellne…Affordable Housing Developm…Community Support ServicesFoster Care & Child Placeme…Youth & Community Developme…Substance Abuse Treatment S…Community Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr9%30%35–55yr12%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr9%6%35–55yr12%87%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/54
the rest of the field
18%
2,755/15,296

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 54 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
36/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNITED WAY — $3,380,314 · PhilanthropyINLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNITED WAY+1 more — $35,000 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient — $97,292 · OtherIndividual gra…RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $43,917 · OtherRIVERSIDE COMM…THRIFTING 4 GIFTING — $42,000 · OtherTHRIFTING 4 GI…United Way of the Desert — $34,534 · OtherUnited Way of …Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties — $34,371 · OtherCatholic Chari…AXIS FOUNDATION INC — $26,250 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC — $25,333 · OtherVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $24,400 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA RIVERSIDE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES — $21,333 · Other+20 more — $211,184 · Other+20 moreOPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC — $38,000 · Human ServicesTHE CAROLYN E WYLIE CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES — $24,500 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD NONPROFIT CONSUMER CREDIT MANAGEMENT INC — $22,667 · Human ServicesiFoster Inc — $22,000 · Human ServicesWALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES — $19,900 · Human ServicesJANET GOESKE FOUNDATION — $13,667 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION OF RIVERSIDE — $10,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF RUTH INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Human ServicesIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation — $7,500 · Human Services+1 more — $6,000 · Human ServicesPATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES — $31,000 · ReligionTHE EMPOWERMENT CENTER — $27,333 · ReligionOLIVE CREST — $16,333 · HealthInspire Life Skills Training Inc — $10,000 · HealthJACOBS HOUSE INC — $10,000 · HealthRIVERSIDE MEDICAL CLINIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $9,600 · HealthEncouragers Counseling & Training Centers Inc — $6,258 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SAN GORGONIO PASS — $18,000 · EducationTHINK TOGETHER — $10,000 · EducationBRIGHT PROSPECT — $10,000 · EducationBUILDING A GENERATION — $7,500 · EducationAssistance League of Riverside California — $32,583 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$3,415,314Other$560,614Human Services$181,734Religion$58,333Health$52,191Education$45,500Community Improvement$32,583

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNITED WAY — $3,380,314 over 3y, 38% of budgetRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $43,917 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHRIFTING 4 GIFTING — $42,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetOPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC — $38,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 211 — $35,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetUnited Way of the Desert — $34,534 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties — $34,371 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES — $31,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT CENTER — $27,333 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC — $25,333 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CAROLYN E WYLIE CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES — $24,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $24,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPRINGBOARD NONPROFIT CONSUMER CREDIT MANAGEMENT INC — $22,667 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetiFoster Inc — $22,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA RIVERSIDE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES — $21,333 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES — $19,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SAN GORGONIO PASS — $18,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetArlington Temporary Assistance Inc — $18,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetINLAND EMPIRE LATINO LAWYERS ASSOCIATION INC — $17,317 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetOak Grove Institute Foundation Inc — $16,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOLIVE CREST — $16,333 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJANET GOESKE FOUNDATION — $13,667 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThessalonika Family Services Inc — $11,667 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetRiverside Arts Academy — $11,667 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetJURUPA MOUNTAINS CULTURAL CENTER — $11,583 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION OF RIVERSIDE — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetInspire Life Skills Training Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJACOBS HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHINK TOGETHER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT PROSPECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHWEST COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER REDLA RIVERSIDE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRIVERSIDE MEDICAL CLINIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $9,600 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SAN GORGONIO COUNCIL — $9,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INLAND VALLEY INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHabitat For Humanity San Bernardino Area Inc — $7,600 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING A GENERATION — $7,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE SAN GORGONIO PASS AREA — $6,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRIVERSIDE MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $6,250 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetACADEMY FOR GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS — $6,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
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.

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.

Inland Empire Communi…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Weingart FoundationThe California Endowm…Mufg Union Bank Found…Regional Access Proje…The Grace Helen Spear…California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…Union Pacific Foundat…Sempra FoundationInland Empire United …
Inland Empire Community FoundationCA70× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inland Empire Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Weingart Foundation · The California Endowment · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Regional Access Project Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Inland Empire United Way

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 Inland Southern California United Way 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5.1M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

    Source object · view filing

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