How much did UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH grant in FY2024?

UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH reported 23 grants totaling $4,234,366 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH based?

UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH is based in SC.

UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH

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· Public charity

UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH

The mission of UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH carolina is to maximize the capacity and effectiveness of local united ways and to provide leadership on issues of significance to the united way system.

$4.2M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$533k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH’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

2018

childcare

2019

adultschildcare

2020

childcarehigher education

2021

uwycachieve financialbold goallakelandsgreenwoodcollectivevital

2022

legalsheltersafelexingtonviolencecontributionspolicy

2023

studentdisabilities

2024

studentachieveimprovingdisabilities

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

03FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k5 grants · $190k
$50k–250k12 grants · $2.0M
$250k+5 grants · $2.1M

$147,763

Median grant

States reached

$3.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

CITY YEAR COLUMBIA$533,185
SOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS$433,801
SC FREE CLINIC ASSOCIATION$379,534
UW OF GREENVILLE COUNTY$364,776
PALMETTO CONSERVATION FOUNDATION$361,403
ABLE SOUTH CAROLINA$247,072
UW OF ANDERSON COUNTY$237,564
UW OF KERSHAW COUNTY$224,740
TRIDENT UW$190,406
UW OF SUMTER CLARENDON AND LEE CO$182,519
UW OF THE MIDLANDS$157,749
HEALTHY LEARNERS$147,763
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$142,975
ANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES$134,274
PATTISON'S ACADEMY$131,341

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 (FY19–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 13%. 93% 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$33M · 37 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$33M

$5.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%

+51%

Still filing today

89%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalOther

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

CITY YEAR-COLUMBIA
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +8%
PC
PALMETTO CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +85% · 25% of their budget
SC
SOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +31%

Funded once

SC
SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +146%
SC
SOUTH CAROLINA LEGAL SERVICESgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $650k · revenue +30%
CO
CITY OF ROCK HILL
one grant, 2022 · $500k

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.

United Way of Southern

The united way of southern cameron county's mission is to "improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities to advance the common good".

Philanthropy

United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc

United way uses collective giving to build pathways to economic opportunity for all, primarily through neighborhood-based, grassroots and responsive solutions. at united way, we find fresh solutions to solveour regions most urgent…

Philanthropy

United Way of Charlotte County Inc

Mobilizing the power of our community to break the cycle of poverty.

Philanthropy

United Way of Central Virginia Inc

To mobilize the compassionate power of our community to improve the quality of lives in central virginia.

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United Way of South Central Michigan

United way of south central michigan strives for caring, connected, equitable communities.

Philanthropy

United Way of Coastal Carolina Inc

The united way of coastal carolina, inc. strives to meet the current and emerging human needs in craven, carteret, jones, and pamlico counties by mobilizing the resources of community organizations, agencies, recipients, and volunteers.

Philanthropy

United Way of Kentucky Inc

As a focused team of leaders, united way of kentucky will align resources and work to advance education, income and health.

Philanthropy

United Way of Southeast Missouri

To raise funds for agencies providing health, social, and welfare activities

Philanthropy

United Way of Central West Virginia

United way of central west virginia brings people and resources together to create positive change and lasting impact for our community. our partners include human service agencies that administer programs focused on the issues of…

Philanthropy

United Way of Pitt County Inc

The united way of pitt county, inc. (uwpc) is a nonprofit entity located in eastern north carolina. uwpc is a volunteer-driven organization that seeks to impact the greater pitt county community by focusing on the keys to a good life -…

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United Way of Washington County

Our mission is to unite people, resources and organizations to improve lives in washington county. the united way of washington county envisions a community where everyone achieves their human potential through education, financial…

Philanthropy

United Way of Southeast Louisiana

To eradicate poverty in southeast louisiana.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Piedmont Inc and the most unlike its peers is Claflin University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/71

the rest of the field

11%

4,406/41,682

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

59 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)

Early backer (in before they grew)

58/59

Grantees still filing

37/59

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$21,870,175Philanthropy$6,302,864Education$4,060,263Environment$1,766,061Health$1,371,259Community Improvement$1,351,578Human Services$1,317,767

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.

Central Carolina CommunitySC75.8× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · United Way of the Midlands · United Way Worldwide · Trident United Way · Foundation for the Carolinas · Park National Corporation Foundation

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 WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: UW OF LAURENS COUNTY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +87% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237011064 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 UW OF LAURENS COUNTY, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 89% 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 Way Association of South?

Find your warmest path to United Way Association of South 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 WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH

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

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way Association of South?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH

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

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way Association of South?

More from the funding graph