· Public charity
United Way of Abilene
UNITED WAY OF ABILENE promotes the health, education, and financial stability of every person in west central texas by leveraging the intellectual, organizational, institutional, financial, faith-based, and personal resources of its local communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $1,526,522 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,910,880 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $384,358 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 · FY2019
- Under $10k6 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $209k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAY NURSERY OF ABILENE | $180,000 |
| NOAH PROJECT | $129,000 |
| ABILENE HOPE HAVEN | $120,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE BIG COUNTRY | $104,500 |
| BIG COUNTRY CASA | $88,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ABILENE | $82,082 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $80,000 |
| REGIONAL VICTIMS CRISIS CENTER | $72,000 |
| SHACKELFORD CO RESOURCE CENTER | $72,000 |
| ABILENE TAYLOR PUBLIC HEALTH | $71,000 |
| CANCER SERVICES NETWORK | $63,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CARE MISSION | $60,000 |
| CITY OF ABI ADAPTIVE REC | $54,500 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS BIG COUNTRY | $52,224 |
| FAITHWORKS OF ABILENE | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $285k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
26 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
- DNDay Nursery of Abilene Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $499k · revenue +72%
- NPNOAH PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $372k · revenue +23%
- CICommunities in Schools of the Big Country8× · 2017–2024 · $316k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- ABAbilene Back the Badge Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +42%
- RFReach for a Differenceone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
Pregnancy Resources' mission is to inspire hope and unconditionally love everyone we serve by empowering them to thrive through compassionate support and positive solutions.
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
The purpose of the Organization is to provide knowledge and understanding of economics, matters of public concern, finance, education and training, and problems of minority groups therby promoting the economy and quality of life in Abilene…
The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.
Enhancing the life of residents of the Abilene State Supported Living Center
Committed to supporting displaced single mothers in Fort Bend County by providing housing assistance and wraparound services.
To provide a place for children to go where they will have supervised activities, arts, crafts, and recreation.
Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro…
Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Day Nursery of Abilene Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Beginnings Big Country. 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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 34 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 Day Nursery of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds NOAH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Abilene Hope Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of the Big Country ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Medical Care Mission ↗
- Who funds BIG COUNTRY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds SHACKELFORD COUNTY COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Regional Crime Victim Crisis Center ↗
- Who funds Cancer Services Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Faithworks of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Abilene Boys Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas Trails Council Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS BIG COUNTRY ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Women and Children ↗
- Who funds Adult Protective Services Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds Christian Service Center of Abilene ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Abilene Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds Center for Contemporary Arts ↗
- Who funds National Center for Childrens Illustrated Literat ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AHEC ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds Abilene Back the Badge Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Strength for Life Foundation ↗
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: Community Foundation of Abilene · Shelton Family Foundation · Barber Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Greathouse Foundation · The Legett Foundation · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · Abilene Christian University · Food Bank of West Central Texas · The Karakin Foundation · Directors Foundation · The Massey Family Charitable Trust
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 of Abilene 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.