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United Way Inc

We can accomplish more together than alone.

$22M
Granted FY2025still arriving
82
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$585k
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.

Housing & Shelter$67MHuman Services$14MCommunity Improvement$8.6MEducation$6.2MEmployment$5.7MHealth$4.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$3.8MYouth Development$3.0MOther$0
02FY2025 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 82 grants below total $8,809,787, the rows itemized in this filing. The $21,703,154 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,893,367 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 $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $555k
  • $50k–250k47 grants · $5.0M
  • $250k+9 grants · $3.2M
$75,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$183M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EXPERTS UNITED FOR HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING SOLUTIONS$585,000
THE PEOPLE CONCERN$432,813
LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION$425,000
KOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE INC$337,500
WITH LOVE MARKET AND CAFE$320,000
LEAP4WARD LLC$312,000
BET TZEDEK LEGAL SERVICES$300,000
SOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES$250,000
SOCIAL IMPACT FUND$250,000
FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC$249,000
NPH ACTION FUND POLITICAL ISSUES COMMITTEE$225,000
LA VOICE$200,000
PROJECT PASSION$200,000
MY TRIBE RISE$200,000
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$175,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $36.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $844k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $658k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $433k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $393k → 14%NPH ACTION FUND POLITICAL ISSUES COMMITTEE: $225k → 10%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $379k → 14%Southeast Ventura County YMCA: $800k → 10%The People Concern: $361k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $288k → 14%LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $360k → 14%LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $260k → 14%211 - County of Los Angeles: $254k → 14%EASTMONT COMMUNITY CENTER: $225k → 14%LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $250k → 14%People Assisting The Homeless (PATH) Partners: $788k → 14%People Assisting The Homeless (PATH) Partners: $592k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS (PATH) PARTNERS: $485k → 14%People Assisting The Homeless (PATH) Partners: $356k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS (PATH): $285k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS (PATH) PARTNERS: $265k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS (PATH): $220k → 14%Union Station Homeless Services: $596k → 14%Union Station Homeless Services: $488k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $429k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $327k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $308k → 14%Union Station Homeless Services: $280k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $292k → 14%SSG-HOPICS (SPECIAL SERVICES FOR GROUPS): $1.3M → 14%SPECIAL SERVICES FOR GROUPS INC: $746k → 14%SSG-HOPICS (SPECIAL SERVICES FOR GROUPS): $738k → 14%Special Services for Groups Inc: $648k → 14%Special Services for Groups Inc: $478k → 14%SSG-HOPICS (SPECIAL SERVICES FOR GROUPS): $448k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICES FOR GROUPS INC: $364k → 14%LA GLOBAL CARE: $415k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES: $442k → 14%YWCA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $358k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $231k → 14%St Joseph Center: $441k → 14%St Joseph Center: $393k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH (SPY): $257k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $228k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $906k → 14%NOHO HOME ALLIANCE: $223k → 14%SOCIAL SERVICES AT BLESSED SACRAMENT INC (DBA THE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD): $225k → 14%American Red Cross: $390k → 14%American Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles: $225k → 14%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.
$102M · 257 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

257 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 212 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

257
186

Total granted

$102M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+6%

Still filing today

91%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • GL
    GENESIS LA ECONOMIC GROWTH CORPORATION
    2× · 2020–2022 · $8.4M · revenue +53% · 27% of their budget
  • SS
    Special Service for Groups Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +328%
  • LF
    LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +293%

Funded once

  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST VENTURA COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $800k · revenue +61%
  • DC
    DECRO CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +410%
  • ED
    EPIDAURUS DBA AMITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $375k · revenue +55%
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
Los Angeles Black Worker Center

The mission of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center is to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ black workers through action and unionization.

Employment
2
Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
3
Fair Housing Foundation

The fair housing foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the elimination of discrimination in housing and promoting equal access to housing choices for everyone.

Housing & Shelter
4
Project Lift La

Provider of human services

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5
Southern California Housing Rights Center

Fair housing monitoring outreach and education housing rights training counseling and case analysis. Have several grants to provide these services to the public on behalf of several city jurisdiction including the City and County of Los…

Civil Rights
6
Shine Bc-La

Provide housing and services to the most vulnerable population, especially those transitioning from (or at risk of) homelessness or institutionalization, through a variety of innovative supportive housing models.

Education
7
Abundant Housing La

To encourage, advocate for, and support the creation of an equitable and environmentally sustainable region where all current and future Angelenos can afford to live, including through legislation, regulations, and government programs.

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8
Los Angeles Youth Network

Youth Emerging Stronger (YES) empowers young people, between ages of 12 and 24 within Los Angeles County, including but not limited to run-away and homeless youth. YES mission is to end homelessness one youth at a time to become…

Human Services
9
Mercy House Living Centers

Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…

Housing & Shelter
10
United Way Inc

We can accomplish more together than alone. by combining community power, donations and new solutions to long standing challenges we can support neighbors on a pathway from poverty to prosperity.

Philanthropy
11
The City of Los Angeles Workforce Development Board

The Workforce Development Board promotes workforce development activitieswhich connect Los Angeles jobseekers and youth to training, workforce preparedness and employment opportunities. Facilitates placing youth into private,public &…

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12
Los Angeles Accessible Apartments C
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health America of Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is Gettlove. 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

425 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. 425 of the 482 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.

21
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
123
Early backer (in before they grew)
413/425
Grantees still filing
304/425
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Special Service for Groups Inc: $4,893,155 · Human ServicesSpecial Service for Groups IncTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $3,355,328 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CONCERNPATH: $3,169,716 · Human ServicesPATHUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $2,823,793 · Human ServicesUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICESST JOSEPH CENTER: $1,709,746 · Human ServicesAntelope Valley Domestic Violence Council: $1,494,684 · Human ServicesLABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAM OF LOS ANGELES: $1,195,189 · Human Services+45 more: $16,328,953 · Human Services+45 moreLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $4,061,649 · OtherLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATIONEXPERTS UNITED FOR HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING SOLUTIONS: $1,785,000 · OtherEXPERTS UNITED FOR HOMELESSNESS…CITY OF LOS ANGELES: $1,257,500 · OtherLAMP INC: $1,204,730 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $1,075,500 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $981,050 · OtherBuilding Skills Partnership: $1,145,800 · Other+64 more: $17,313,273 · Other+64 moreGENESIS LA ECONOMIC GROWTH CORPORATION: $8,430,000 · Community ImprovementGENESIS LA ECON…COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $1,386,952 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTN…CANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $821,509 · Community ImprovementCANGRESS DBA LO…COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $631,992 · Community ImprovementLA VOICE: $562,500 · Community Improvement+11 more: $2,680,250 · Community Improvement+11 moreHARBOR INTERFAITH SERVICES INC: $2,094,118 · Housing & ShelterHARBOR INTE…CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $933,000 · Housing & ShelterCORPORATION…VENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $873,125 · Housing & ShelterVENICE COMM…SINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY HOUSING CORPORATION: $779,035 · Housing & ShelterSINGLE ROOM…TPC HOMES: $439,950 · Housing & ShelterWEINGART CENTER ASSOCIATION: $415,000 · Housing & ShelterPATH VENTURES: $401,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST LA COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $380,500 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $371,650 · Housing & Shelter+17 more: $3,582,141 · Housing & Shelter+17 moreSOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES: $2,819,000 · EducationSOCIAL JU…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,686,256 · EducationUNIVERSIT…BRILLIANT CORNERS: $997,625 · EducationBRILLIANT…KINGDOM CAUSES BELLFLOWER: $558,684 · EducationKINGDOM C…HOLOS INC: $402,500 · EducationEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $305,000 · Education+9 more: $1,707,202 · Education+9 moreEL CENTRO DE AYUDA: $1,026,300 · HealthFIRST TO SERVE INC: $582,400 · HealthJWCH INSTITUTE INC: $451,674 · HealthThe Whole Child - Mental Health & Housing Services: $396,450 · HealthEPIDAURUS DBA AMITY FOUNDATION: $375,000 · HealthA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $374,384 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $285,000 · HealthNATIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $281,020 · HealthLOS ANGELES CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTERS: $276,222 · HealthFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $249,000 · HealthTRANSFORMATIONAL LIVING HOMES INC: $217,460 · HealthLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $182,500 · Health+2 more: $300,000 · HealthSKID ROW HOUSING TRUST: $791,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC: $345,000 · PhilanthropyST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH: $341,419 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $307,500 · PhilanthropySocial Impact Fund: $250,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $175,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$34,970,564Other$28,824,502Community Improvement$14,513,203Housing & Shelter$10,269,519Education$8,476,267Health$4,997,410Philanthropy$2,210,419

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetGENESIS LA ECONOMIC GROWTH CORPORATION: $8,430,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetSpecial Service for Groups Inc: $4,893,155 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $4,061,649 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $3,355,328 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetPATH: $3,169,716 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $2,823,793 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES: $2,819,000 over 6y, 36% of budgetHARBOR INTERFAITH SERVICES INC: $2,094,118 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetEXPERTS UNITED FOR HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING SOLUTIONS: $1,785,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER: $1,709,746 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,686,256 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAntelope Valley Domestic Violence Council: $1,494,684 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $1,386,952 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetLAMP INC: $1,204,730 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetLABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAM OF LOS ANGELES: $1,195,189 over 7y, 23% of budgetBuilding Skills Partnership: $1,145,800 over 9y, 6.9% of budgetTHE INFORMATION AND REFERRAL FEDERATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $1,111,615 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetEL CENTRO DE AYUDA: $1,026,300 over 8y, 12% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $1,003,140 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetBRILLIANT CORNERS: $997,625 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $933,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetVENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $873,125 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $868,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $821,509 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST VENTURA COUNTY: $800,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTHE MIGUEL CONTRERAS FOUNDATION: $799,040 over 3y, 28% of budgetSKID ROW HOUSING TRUST: $791,500 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetSINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY HOUSING CORPORATION: $779,035 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $765,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetProyecto Pastoral: $678,900 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetHomeless Health Care Los Angeles: $638,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $631,992 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTHE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD: $620,933 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $613,992 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetSOUTH BAY CENTER FOR COUNSELING: $611,488 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetFIRST TO SERVE INC: $582,400 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $570,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLA VOICE: $562,500 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetKINGDOM CAUSES BELLFLOWER: $558,684 over 5y, 12% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $534,750 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetLA GLOBAL CARE: $512,315 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetDECRO CORPORATION: $500,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTESTIMONIAL COMMUNITY LOVE CENTER: $482,615 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC: $462,434 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetJWCH INSTITUTE INC: $451,674 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Village Family Services Inc: $450,149 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTPC HOMES: $439,950 over 2y, 74% of budgetKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $419,760 over 7y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds GENESIS LA ECONOMIC GROWTH CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Special Service for Groups Inc ↗
  • Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
  • Who funds PATH ↗
  • Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds HARBOR INTERFAITH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds EXPERTS UNITED FOR HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Antelope Valley Domestic Violence Council ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds LAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAM OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds Building Skills Partnership ↗
  • Who funds THE INFORMATION AND REFERRAL FEDERATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds EL CENTRO DE AYUDA ↗
  • Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
  • Who funds BRILLIANT CORNERS ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds VENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
  • Who funds CANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST VENTURA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE MIGUEL CONTRERAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SKID ROW HOUSING TRUST ↗
  • Who funds SINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Proyecto Pastoral ↗
  • Who funds Homeless Health Care Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH BAY CENTER FOR COUNSELING ↗
  • Who funds FIRST TO SERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗

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.

Weingart FoundationShelter Partnership I…The Ralph M Parsons F…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ahmanson Foundati…California Community …Liberty Hill Foundati…Baby2babyThe Annenberg Foundat…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Cedars-Sinai Medical …The Green Foundation
Weingart FoundationCA176.6× affinity152 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Weingart Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Baby2baby · The Annenberg Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · The Green Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    95report 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
    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 482 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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