How much did UNITED COMMUNITY BANK FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of UNITED COMMUNITY BANK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

needed furtherancerecipient neededveterans buildveteranmainmariettapolice

2022

needed furtherancefinancial literacybuildscampveterans housingyouth leadershiphabitat humanity

2023

neededwayhabitat humanityelementary artshumanerescuecreative

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 219 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k211 grants · $397k
$10k–50k4 grants · $65k
$50k–250k4 grants · $300k

$1,700

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants

AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$100,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$100,000
EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT OGANIZATION$50,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA$50,000
WAMY (WATAUGA AVERY MITCHELL AND YANCEY) COMMUNITY ACTION$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GRAND STRAND$20,000
MY KID'S CLUB$10,000
YOUTH CORPS$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA$7,500
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$5,000
FRONT PORCH HOUSING$5,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAN NATIONAL COUNCIL 101 NORTHEAST GEORGIA COUNCIL$5,000
APPALACHIAN CHILDRENS CENTER INC$5,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC DBA JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TUSCALOOSA COU$5,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$5,000

02The need

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 (FY21–24, $256k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$800k · 113 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

113 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 140 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

113

333

Total granted

$800k

$926k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+60%

Still filing today

73%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $487k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesAnimalsEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

AN
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS
2× · 2023–2024 · $112k · revenue +9%
YM
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +11%
CS
Central South Carolina Habitat For Humanity
3× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +80%

Funded once

GC
Greenville County Museum of Art
one grant, 2020 · $50k
TM
The Museum Association Greenville County Museum of Art
one grant, 2021 · $50k
CC
CONSERVING CAROLINAgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +51%

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.

Humane Society of Charlotte Inc

Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.

Animals

Western Carolina Rescue

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter

Blue Ridge Humane Society Inc

The Blue Ridge Humane Society is dedicated to ensuring the highest quality of life for animals in Henderson County and our neighboring communities through adoption outreach and education.

Animals

Humane Society of York County

We are finding loving fur-ever homes for dogs and cats.To make sure York County, SC cats and dogs are treated in a humane manner, rescued, placed in loving and forever homes by:Increasing dogs and cats adoptions and rescues;Empowering the…

Animals

Forsyth Humane Society

To promote and provide for the humane treatment of cats and dogs in Forsyth County. In support of its mission, FHS is committed to achieving a save rate of 90 percent for shelter animals in our county.

Animals

Suncoast Humane Societyinc

Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoastregion of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe andloved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…

Animals

Habitat for Humanity Macon Jackson Nc

To construct and provide housing to macon and jackson county residents who exhibit a true need for decent housing and the ability to repay a zero interest loan and willingness to partner with habitat

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Fluvanna County Society for the

To rescue domestic animals from cruelty, neglect, and abandonment and place them in good, loving, permanent homes.

Animals

Carolina Basset Hound Rescue Inc

The mission of Carolina Basset Hound Rescue is to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome unwanted basset hounds in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Animals

Columbia Humane Society

To assist the community in the successful rehoming (and training) of adoptable animals.

Animals

Cedartown Polk County Humane Society Inc

We speak for animals who cannot speak for themselves. We are in the daily business of saving the lives of companion animals by eliminating starvation, abuse, neglect and euthanasia.

Animals

Gwinnett County Habitat for Humanity in

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Birmingham Habitat for Humanity and the most unlike its peers is Big Brothers Big Sisters of the. 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.

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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.5%2/411

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,154

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.

05the grantee network

376 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

143

Early backer (in before they grew)

363/376

Grantees still filing

294/376

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,385,093Human Services$257,707Youth Development$144,950Education$113,500Religion$111,750Philanthropy$106,665Arts & Culture$93,800

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.

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.

Scsymmes FoundationNV46.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scsymmes Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Spartanburg County Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Habitat for Humanity International Inc · Central Carolina Community

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 organisation UNITED COMMUNITY BANK FOUNDATION 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Friends of Marietta History.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up 7.3× since.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 850653354 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Friends of Marietta History, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 57% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Community Bank Foundation?

Find your warmest path to United Community Bank Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED COMMUNITY BANK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

376 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Community Bank Foundation?

More from the funding graph

UNITED COMMUNITY BANK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

376 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Community Bank Foundation?

More from the funding graph