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United Way Association of South Carolina Inc

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 FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$533k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

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 CAROLINA INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 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
4
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY19–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%FAIRFIELD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $20k → 18%BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE: $59k → 11%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: $36k → 13%THE SAMARITAN HOUSE OF ORANGEBURG: $30k → 25%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $15k → 8%MISSION LEXINGTON: $17k → 11%ANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $287k → 15%ANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $134k → 15%ANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $84k → 15%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $258k → 16%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $164k → 16%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $148k → 16%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $65k → 16%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$33M · 37 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

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

37
33

Total granted

$33M
$5.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-3%

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.

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
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 INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +15%
  • PT
    PALMETTO TRAIL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +177% · 28% of their budget
  • SC
    SOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS BOARD OF TRUSTEES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • SC
    South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -49%
  • SC
    South Carolina Legal Services
    one grant, 2022 · $650k · revenue +13%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE
    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.

1
United Way of Charlotte County Inc

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

Philanthropy
2
United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties

United way works to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another. united way is a funder, a mobilizer, a convener and a fundraiser. united way is a community builder, connecting people through philanthropy,…

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3
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
4
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
5
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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6
United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc

To eradicate poverty and to increase social mobility through the power of partnerships.

Philanthropy
7
United Way of the Csra Inc

United way of the csra mobilizes the caring power of our community to make lasting change on the issues that matter most in our region. we want to ensure that children, young adults, and families have the tools and resources they need to…

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8
United Way of Greater Chattanooga

Uniting people and resources in building a stronger, healthier community

Philanthropy
9
United Way of Southern Cameron County

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
10
United Way of Sumner County

To mobilize the caring power of our community to improve the quality of life in sumner county as a place to grow up, raise a family, work, achieve dreams, and grow older.

Philanthropy
11
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
12
United Way of Etowah County Inc

United way brings together people and resources and collaborates with over 27 local non-profit agencies to advance the common good in etowah county.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Lowcountry and the most unlike its peers is The Brookland Foundation. 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 backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsAffordable Housing Developm…Professional Trade Associat…Nonprofit Capacity BuildingAcademic Medical Centers
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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr15%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr12%39%35–55yr15%23%55yr+

The field is 21% 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 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/71
the rest of the field
12%
4,635/38,078

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

59 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. 59 of the 72 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
31/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY YEAR INC — $2,998,549 · OtherCITY YEAR INCUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC — $2,709,712 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INCUNITED WAY OF ANDERSON COUNTY — $2,268,884 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ANDERSON COUNTYUNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRY — $2,127,180 · OtherUNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRYUNITED WAY OF SUMTER CLARENDON AND LEE COUNTIES INC — $1,541,003 · OtherUNITED WAY OF SUMTER CLARENDON AND LEE COUNTIES INCUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC — $1,204,039 · OtherUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INCUNITED WAY OF KERSHAW COUNTY — $938,115 · Other+32 more — $8,082,693 · Other+32 moreTRIDENT UNITED WAY — $2,363,986 · PhilanthropyTRIDENT UNITED WAYBLACK RIVER UNITED WAY INC — $1,905,355 · PhilanthropyBLACK RIVER UNITED…UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS — $853,311 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE …ABLE SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $615,691 · PhilanthropyABLE SOUTH CAROLIN…+8 more — $564,521 · Philanthropy+8 moreSOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS BOARD OF TRUSTEES — $1,550,778 · EducationSOUTH CAROLI…READING PARTNERS — $1,271,578 · EducationREADING PART…FURMAN UNIVERSITY — $581,483 · EducationFURMAN UNIVE…Teach for America Inc — $481,826 · EducationTeach for Am…+3 more — $174,598 · EducationPALMETTO TRAIL — $1,766,061 · EnvironmentMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC — $691,953 · HealthSOUTH CAROLINA FREE CLINIC ASSOC — $679,306 · HealthSouth Carolina Association for Community Economic Development — $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementSUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE — $187,284 · Community ImprovementLIMITLESS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $150,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $14,294 · Community ImprovementHEALTHY LEARNERS — $649,948 · Human ServicesANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES — $505,251 · Human ServicesBROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE — $59,180 · Human Services+4 more — $103,388 · Human Services
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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCITY YEAR INC — $2,998,549 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC — $2,709,712 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetTRIDENT UNITED WAY — $2,363,986 over 8y, 13% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ANDERSON COUNTY — $2,268,884 over 8y, 21% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRY — $2,127,180 over 6y, 53% of budgetBLACK RIVER UNITED WAY INC — $1,905,355 over 8y, 40% of budgetPALMETTO TRAIL — $1,766,061 over 8y, 28% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS BOARD OF TRUSTEES — $1,550,778 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMTER CLARENDON AND LEE COUNTIES INC — $1,541,003 over 8y, 56% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $1,271,578 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC — $1,204,039 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetSouth Carolina Association for Community Economic Development — $1,000,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KERSHAW COUNTY — $938,115 over 4y, 17% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS — $853,311 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LAKELANDS — $724,960 over 2y, 50% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC — $691,953 over 7y, 13% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA FREE CLINIC ASSOC — $679,306 over 2y, 63% of budgetSouth Carolina Legal Services — $650,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS — $649,948 over 5y, 11% of budgetABLE SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $615,691 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY — $602,200 over 2y, 33% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $581,483 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES — $505,251 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $481,826 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF AIKEN COUNTY INC — $434,207 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC — $428,142 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LAURENS COUNTY INC — $355,896 over 1y, 89% of budgetBarnwell County United Way — $312,700 over 1y, 75% of budgetUNITED WAY OF FLORENCE COUNTY — $292,770 over 2y, 28% of budgetINDIAN WATERS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $258,471 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER — $250,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMARION COUNTY LONG TERM RECOVERY — $250,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of the Crescent Region — $194,598 over 2y, 36% of budgetROOT & REBOUND — $190,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE — $187,284 over 3y, 14% of budgetOne-Eighty Place — $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLIMITLESS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $150,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetUnited Way of Chesterfield County Inc — $107,900 over 2y, 47% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT — $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF OCONEE COUNTY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE BROOKLAND FOUNDATION — $98,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY — $89,501 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HORRY COUNTY INC — $76,571 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetBROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE — $59,180 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMULTIPLYING GOOD INC — $45,011 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCommunities in Schools of South Carolina — $44,591 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Central Carolina Comm…Dominion Energy Chari…Coastal Community Fou…Sisters of Charity Fo…United Way of the Mid…Duke Energy FoundationUnited Way of Greenvi…Trident United WayTruist Foundation IncThe Duke EndowmentFoundation for the Ca…BlueCross BlueShield …
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC65.4× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · United Way of the Midlands · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Trident United Way · Truist Foundation Inc · The Duke Endowment · Foundation for the Carolinas · BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina 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 organization United Way Association of South Carolina Inc 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%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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: 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 72 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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