· Public charity
United Way Heartland Region
To connect community resources to community needs and to provide financial support to member agencies on a yearly basis.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $182,754 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $231,604 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $48,850 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $163k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HURON BACKPACK PROGRAM | $41,976 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $27,500 |
| PEOPLES TRANSIT | $19,206 |
| IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $14,762 |
| CORNERSTONES CAREER LEARNING CENTER | $14,500 |
| HURON PUBLIC SCHOOL | $12,625 |
| HURON SENIOR CENTER | $11,000 |
| HURON AREA WELLNESS AND REC | $11,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE | $10,145 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| BEADLE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,540 |
| GIRL SCOUTS DAKOTA HORIZONS | $5,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UWUNITED WAY HEARTLAND REGION7× · 2019–2025 · $217k · revenue +2%
- PTPEOPLE'S TRANSIT5× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +76%
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +190%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BEADLE COUNTY INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -50% · 41% of their budget
- HEHURON EVANGELICAL MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $8k
- SSSD STATE FAIRone grant, 2017 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.
Benton habitat for humanity is a countywide ecumenical ministry that seeks to eliminate substandard housing and to make decent shelter a matter of action and conscience by having people from all income levels work together.
In order to mobilize community resources to help people measurably improve their lives - we work collaboratively with our community to identify priorities, and then decide which strategies, dollars, and partnerships should be used to bring…
Provide a home for the elderly.
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
To improve people's lives and create possibilities in hall, hamilton, howard & merrick counties. heartland united way brings together diverse community stakeholders, partners, and contributors to change community conditions to improve…
People helping people.
The heart of missouri united way works in improve lives of people in need by mobilizing and coordinating the caring power of community resources in mid-missouri.
The mission of huron valley ambulance is to provide high-quality out-of-hospital care and transportation services to the communities we serve.
Offers a new hope for comfortable,peaceful and dignified end of life while focusing on patient's goals and wishes at all times.
To reduce the conditions of poverty by providing comprehensive services to improve lives.to accomplish the mission, hhwp cac will collect and analyze data on the nature of poverty and the existing resources in the area. hhwp cac will…
Our mission is restoring hope by helping people and changing lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Heartland Region and the most unlike its peers is Hope House Inc. 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.
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 44 years old; the field is 41. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund close more than the field — 4% lost their exemption, against 3% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 30 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds UNITED WAY HEARTLAND REGION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S TRANSIT ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE ↗
- Who funds HRMC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cornerstones Career Learning Center ↗
- Who funds HURON AREA SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HURON AREA WELLNESS AND RECREATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BEADLE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds JAMES VALLEY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds HELPLINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Hope House Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BEADLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NETWORK GROWING STRONGER ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HURON HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING SERVICES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Heartland Region 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.
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.
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