Florida · Public charity
United Way Emerald Coast
Our mission is to unite people with resources to improve the quality of life in okaloosa and walton counties.
- $619k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2025
- $422k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,514
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $43,681
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 33% of the organizations United Way Emerald Coast funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $422k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $453k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $290k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $387k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $527k | 14% |
| FY2017 | 34 | $614k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early Learning Coalition of Okaloosa & Walton Counties Inc | $197,565 | 8 | 0% |
| Sharing & Caring Inc | $194,363 | 5 | 6% |
| Mental Health Association of Okaloosa/Walton Counties Inc | $150,107 | 5 | 12% |
| Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida | $135,835 | 7 | 1% |
| Children in Crisis Inc | $130,932 | 6 | 3% |
| Amikids Inc | $124,434 | 6 | n/a |
| Shelter House Inc | $124,043 | 3 | 3% |
| Crossroads Center Inc | $113,628 | 7 | 23% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of the Emerald Coast Inc | $90,800 | 7 | 1% |
| Horizons of Okaloosa County Inc | $88,152 | 2 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
United Way Emerald Coast supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The St Joe Community Foundation Inc · Impact 100 of Northwest Florida Inc · Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation Inc · Big Bend Community Based Care Inc · Gulf Power Foundationinc · The Alys Foundationinc · Dugas Family Foundation Inc · United Way of West Florida Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · Okaloosa Walton Homeless Continuum of Care Opportunity Inc · 30a 10k Inc
How this is measured
About United Way Emerald Coast
- How much does United Way Emerald Coast give?
- United Way Emerald Coast reported 20 itemized grants totaling $422,478, out of $618,913 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does United Way Emerald Coast fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (42%), Health (17%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are United Way Emerald Coast's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Early Learning Coalition of Okaloosa & Walton Counties Inc ($198k), Sharing & Caring Inc ($194k), Mental Health Association of Okaloosa/Walton Counties Inc ($150k).
- Does United Way Emerald Coast fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way Emerald Coast?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The St Joe Community Foundation Inc, Impact 100 of Northwest Florida Inc, Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation Inc.
- Where is United Way Emerald Coast based?
- United Way Emerald Coast is based in FL.
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