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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 FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$44k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Human Services$1.1MHealth$463kYouth Development$321kEducation$235kHousing & Shelter$209kCrime & Legal$92kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kEnvironment$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $422,478, the rows itemized in this filing. The $618,913 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $196,435 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $408k
$20,514
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MATRIX COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER$43,681
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE EEMERALD COAST INC$35,705
WESTERWOOD RANCH$32,103
A BED 4 ME FOUNDATION$30,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - WALTON$30,000
EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF THE EMERALD COAST$26,956
CROSSROADS CENTER INC$22,603
FREEDOM LIFE COMPASS$21,500
OKALOOSA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC$21,288
EMERALD COAST CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY$20,514
CRESTVIEW AREA SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS$20,000
LAKEVIEW CENTER INC$19,066
FEEDING THE GULF COAST$17,645
UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME$17,500
PEARL PROJECT INC$14,451
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $815k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WESTERWOOD RANCH: $32k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $6k → 12%PEARL PROJECT INC: $14k → 16%RONALD MCDONALD OF NW FLORIDA: $19k → 16%WALTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $17k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD OF NW FLORIDA: $14k → 16%WALTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $13k → 11%UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $18k → 8%RONALD MCDONALD OF NW FLORIDA: $7k → 16%UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $12k → 8%COVENANT HOSPICE: $14k → 16%MATRIX COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $44k → 11%MATRIX COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $14k → 11%CHILDREN IN CRISIS: $60k → 8%HORIZONS OF OKALOOSA COUNTY: $54k → 8%NORTHWEST FLORIDA GUARDIAN AD LITEM: $15k → 16%NORTHWEST FLORIDA GUARDIAN AD LITEM: $6k → 16%CHILDREN IN CRISIS: $38k → 8%HORIZONS OF OKALOOSA COUNTY: $34k → 8%A BED 4 ME FOUNDATION: $30k → 8%CHILDREN IN CRISIS: $11k → 8%CHILDREN IN CRISIS: $9k → 8%CHILDREN IN CRISIS: $8k → 8%CHILDREN IN CRISIS: $5k → 8%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $12k → 8%SHARING AND CARING OF OKALOOSA: $55k → 8%SHARING AND CARING OF OKALOOSA: $51k → 8%SHARING AND CARING OF OKALOOSA: $35k → 8%SHARING AND CARING OF OKALOOSA: $35k → 8%OKALOOSA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $21k → 8%CATERPILLER BUTTERFLY OUTREACH CENTER: $21k → 8%OKALOOSA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $20k → 8%SHARING AND CARING OF OKALOOSA: $19k → 8%OKALOOSA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $18k → 8%ELDER SERVICES OF OKALOOSA COUNTY: $13k → 8%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $12k → 8%OASIS: $10k → 8%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 34 repeat orgs$369k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
12

Total granted

$2.3M
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-24%

Still filing today

94%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • EL
    EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF OKALOOSA & WALTON COUNTIES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $198k · revenue +24%
  • SC
    SHARING & CARING INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $194k · revenue +31%
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF OKALOOSA/WALTON COUNTIES INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $150k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NW FLORIDA
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
  • PW
    Point Washington Medical Clinic Incgraduated
    2× · 2022–2024 · $33k · revenue +52%
  • UF
    UNITED FOR A GOOD CAUSE INCgraduated
    2× · 2022–2023 · $24k · revenue +407%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Central Florida Commission On Homelessness Inc

The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.

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2
Westcare Florida Inc

To provide substance abuse treatment and prevention.

Health
3
Treehouse of Tallahassee Inc

Provide housing for abused children.

Human Services
4
Life Crisis Center Inc

To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.

Human Services
5
Family Promise of Baldwin County

To provide temporary shelter, related services and nuturing support to housing insecure families with children in baldwin county.

Human Services
6
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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7
Pathway Homes of Florida Inc

The organization is dedicated to providing case management and housing location services for homeless and other adults with mental illness and co-occurring disabilities.

Health
8
Central Florida Childrens Home

To provide homes for disadvantaged children.

Human Services
9
Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers

Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers, Inc. serves the community behavioral health needs of nine counties of Southern Oklahoma. Lighthouse offers integrated care through their outpatient and Health Home programs to adults and children.…

Health
10
Choices House Inc

CHOICES House Inc was founded to provide mentoring, therapeudic and transitional living services to adolescent men and women with pre-independent living facility. CHOICES House manages 3 houses serving the State of Florida

Human Services
11
Santa Rosa Kids' House Inc

To deliver a well coordinated and multi-disciplined response to child abuse in an environment that puts children first

Youth Development
12
Recovery Connections of Central Florida

Through empathetic compassion, we ae committed to connecting individuals and families to resources that offer multiple pathways to long-term, sustainable recovery.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is S4P Synergy Inc; the most unlike its peers is United for a Good Cause Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 53 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
29/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHARING & CARING INC: $194,363 · Human ServicesSHARING & CARING INCCHILDREN IN CRISIS INC: $130,932 · Human ServicesCHILDREN IN CRISIS INCSHELTER HOUSE INC: $124,043 · Human ServicesSHELTER HOUSE INCHORIZONS OF OKALOOSA COUNTY INC: $88,152 · Human ServicesHORIZONS OF OKALOOSA COUNTY INCOKALOOSA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $59,288 · Human ServicesOKALOOSA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGINGMATRIX COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENT: $57,681 · Human ServicesMATRIX COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTS4P SYNERGY INC: $55,034 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $39,610 · Human Services+14 more: $284,806 · Human Services+14 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA: $135,835 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHWES…AMIKIDS INC: $124,434 · OtherAMIKIDS INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE EMERALD COAST INC: $90,800 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE EM…FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $50,431 · OtherFRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND F…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $44,216 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NO…AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NW FLORIDA: $40,407 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS OF NW FLORI…GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH: $39,000 · OtherGRACE LUTHERAN CHURCHHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WALTON COUNTY INC: $35,635 · OtherEMERALD COAST SCIENCE CENTER INC: $39,100 · OtherEMERALD COAST SCIENCE CENTER I…Feeding the Gulf Coast: $24,377 · Other+6 more: $96,757 · Other+6 moreMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF OKALOOSA/WALTON COUNTIES INC: $150,107 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ASS…CROSSROADS CENTER INC: $113,628 · HealthCROSSROADS CENTER…Lifeview Group Inc: $45,014 · HealthLifeview Group In…CHILDRENS VOLUNTEER HEALTH NETWORK INC: $44,057 · HealthCHILDRENS VOLUNTE…Point Washington Medical Clinic Inc: $33,000 · HealthPoint Washington …Freedom Life Compass Inc: $21,500 · HealthLakeview Center Inc: $19,066 · HealthEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF OKALOOSA & WALTON COUNTIES INC: $197,565 · EducationEARLY LEA…WALTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION IN: $37,091 · EducationWALTON ED…OPPORTUNITY PLACE INC: $64,312 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OKALOOSA COUNTY INC: $21,335 · Housing & ShelterCRESTVIEW AREA SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterOkaloosa Walton Homeless Continuum of Care Opportunity Inc: $17,500 · Housing & ShelterELEANOR JOHNSON YOUTH CENTER INC: $83,565 · Youth DevelopmentEMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $70,469 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$1,033,909Other$720,992Health$426,372Education$234,656Housing & Shelter$123,147Youth Development$83,565Crime & Legal$70,469

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 budgetEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF OKALOOSA & WALTON COUNTIES INC: $197,565 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSHARING & CARING INC: $194,363 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF OKALOOSA/WALTON COUNTIES INC: $150,107 over 5y, 12% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA: $135,835 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN IN CRISIS INC: $130,932 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetSHELTER HOUSE INC: $124,043 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCROSSROADS CENTER INC: $113,628 over 7y, 23% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE EMERALD COAST INC: $90,800 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHORIZONS OF OKALOOSA COUNTY INC: $88,152 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetELEANOR JOHNSON YOUTH CENTER INC: $83,565 over 3y, 26% of budgetEMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $70,469 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetOPPORTUNITY PLACE INC: $64,312 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetOKALOOSA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $59,288 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetMATRIX COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENT: $57,681 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetS4P SYNERGY INC: $55,034 over 2y, 18% of budgetFRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $50,431 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetLifeview Group Inc: $45,014 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $44,216 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDRENS VOLUNTEER HEALTH NETWORK INC: $44,057 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $39,610 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEMERALD COAST SCIENCE CENTER INC: $39,100 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetWALTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION IN: $37,091 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WALTON COUNTY INC: $35,635 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetPoint Washington Medical Clinic Inc: $33,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetWESTONWOOD RANCH INC: $32,103 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWALTON COUNTY CITIZENS ADVISORY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $30,607 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetA BED 4 ME FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $29,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast: $24,377 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED FOR A GOOD CAUSE INC: $24,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetOKALOOSA AIDS SUPPORT AND INFORMATIONAL SERVICES INC- OASIS: $22,677 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFreedom Life Compass Inc: $21,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetNORTHWEST FLORIDA GUARDIAN AD LITEM FOUNDATION INC: $21,353 over 2y, 13% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OKALOOSA COUNTY INC: $21,335 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetINDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC: $21,281 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $20,630 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRESTVIEW AREA SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS: $20,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetLakeview Center Inc: $19,066 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGULF COAST COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $18,683 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetOkaloosa Walton Homeless Continuum of Care Opportunity Inc: $17,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Pearl Project Inc: $14,451 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCOVENANT HOSPICE INC: $14,101 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALTERNATIVE LIVING INC: $12,781 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHARVEST HOUSE INC: $12,586 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetJUDGE BEN GORDON JR FAMILY VISITATION CENTER INC: $12,336 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSAFE CONNECTIONS: $11,681 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES OF NW FL INC: $8,946 over 1y, 8.1% 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.

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.

The St Joe Community …Impact 100 of Northwe…Destin Charity Wine A…Big Bend Community Ba…Gulf Power Foundation…The Alys FoundationincDugas Family Foundati…United Way of West Fl…Blue Cross Blue Shiel…International Paper C…Okaloosa Walton Homel…30a 10k Inc
The St Joe Community Foundation IncFL32.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Way Emerald Coast funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way Emerald Coast. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Caterpillar 2 Butterfly Outreach Center: 59% of income from government
  • Okaloosa Walton Homeless Continuum of Care Opportunity Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida: 6% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida: 5% of income from government
  • The Pearl Project Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lakeview Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Harvest House Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Alternative Living Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 53 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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