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United Givers Fund of Dekalb County

Ugf supports 10 non-profit organizations which provide a wide variety of needed health and human welfare services to dekalb county.

$118k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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.

Youth Development$262kCrime & Legal$221kHuman Services$221kHealth$201kPublic Safety & Disaster$46k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $105,349, the rows itemized in this filing. The $117,849 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,500 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
$12,128
Median grant
1
States reached
$385k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASA$27,630
DEKALB COUNTY ARC$25,110
BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA$15,000
SALVATION ARMY$12,128
GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH ALABAMA$10,000
FORT PAYNE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$10,000
CASA-HELPING HANDS$5,481
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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%KELLEY'S RAINBOW: $5k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 19%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $14k → 19%FORT PAYNE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 19%FORT PAYNE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 19%FORT PAYNE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 19%FORT PAYNE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 19%FORT PAYNE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 19%FORT PAYNE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 19%FORT PAYNE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 19%FORT PAYNE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 19%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 19%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$945k · 7 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$945k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+4%

Still filing today

71%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TA
    THE ARC OF DEKALB COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $201k · revenue +57%
  • CR
    CHILDCARE RESOURCE NETWORK INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +42%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2017–2019 · $46k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • DV
    DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +4%
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

6 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. 6 of the 8 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARE ASSURANCE SYSTEM FOR THE AGING AND HOMEBOUND CASA OF DEKALB COUNT: $259,407 · OtherCARE ASSURANCE SYSTEM FOR THE AGING AND HOMEBOUND CASA OF DEKALB COUNTTHE ARC OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $200,880 · OtherTHE ARC OF DEKALB COUNTY INCGREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $182,367 · OtherGREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICATHE SALVATION ARMY: $97,120 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYCHILDCARE RESOURCE NETWORK INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesCHILDCARE RESOU…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $45,669 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS SERVICES: $5,481 · Human ServicesGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOU…
Other$739,774Human Services$131,150Youth Development$80,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ARC OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $200,880 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $182,367 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDCARE RESOURCE NETWORK INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA: $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $45,669 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS SERVICES: $5,481 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE ARC OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds CHILDCARE RESOURCE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS SERVICES ↗

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.

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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 United Givers Fund of Dekalb County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Givers Fund of Dekalb County. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 United Givers Fund of Dekalb County 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 8 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.

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