· Public charity
United Way of Aiken County Inc
To improve the lives of individuals and families in the aiken county.
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 22 grants below total $1,488,820 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,677,477 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $188,657 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
- $10k–50k12 grants · $352k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRI-DEVELOPMENT CTR OF AIKEN | $210,000 |
| HELPING HANDS | $170,222 |
| CHILDREN'S PLACE | $154,000 |
| AIKEN AREA COUNCIL ON AGING | $134,500 |
| COMMUNITY MEDICAL CLINIC | $98,315 |
| CUMBEE CTR TO ASSIST ABUSED | $87,480 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $86,751 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSC IN SC | $86,022 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA 2-1-1 | $57,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $52,488 |
| A C T S | $44,011 |
| COMMUNITY MINISTRY OF NA | $40,000 |
| GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK | $40,000 |
| LSCOG-MED ASST PROGRAM | $31,000 |
| AIKEN COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against -51% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
- TCTRI-DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF AIKEN COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +31%
- CPCHILDREN'S PLACE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +31%
- AAAIKEN AREA COUNCIL ON AGING INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +130%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INCone grant, 2025 · $57k · revenue -51%
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.
To improve the economic vitality, enhance the beauty, and preserve the historical significance of downtown aiken.
Empowering people in sumter county sc to live free from substance abuse through a continuum of high quality services.
Friendship community improvement corp. is committed to providing housing, education, and economic development to low and moderate income families and individuals in aiken, sc. the corporation's priority is to pursue single and multifamily…
To improve the lives of individuals and families in the aiken county.
To promote the mental social and physical welfare of seniors in Union County SC. To operate senior centers providing group dining home delivered meals transportation homemaker services and material support to seniors 60 and older.
We seek to help low income families with minor children who are at imminent risk of homelessness or already homeless to achieve long-term housing security through finding housing or paying past-due rent or utilities then addressing the…
Purpose of the organization is to provide comprehensive community behavioral health services to the local community including mental health, substance abuse and mental retardation/developmental disability services.
To enhance and promote the independence, dignity, value and well- being of older and disabled adults and those who care for them.
Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…
The fayette county commission on aging serves and represents those adults 60 years of age and older in fayette county. the emphasis is on improving the quality of life of those fayette county citizens, 60 and above, and providing the…
Volunteer Avery County finds resources to aid families and individuals that do not qualify for public assistance and fall through the cracks.
The adult care center of roaonke valley is a safe and secure program committed to providing compassionate, stimulating daytime care for dependent adults while providing family support and an alternative to long-term care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aiken Area Council On Aging Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brothers & Sisters of Aiken County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 24 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 TRI-DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF AIKEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds AIKEN AREA COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF AIKEN COUNTY INC COMMUNITY MEDICAL CLINIC OF AIKEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CUMBEE CENTER TO ASSIST ABUSED PERSONS INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF AIKEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AIKEN COUNTY HELP LINE INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING ↗
- Who funds LOWER SAVANNAH REGIONAL INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF AIKEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AIKEN COUNTY COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA-CAROLINA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NC#93 ↗
- Who funds THE RECING CREW ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS & SISTERS OF AIKEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY Y YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION/YWCO OF THE CSRA INC ↗
- Who funds CANHOPE ↗
- Who funds AIKEN BOXING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Aiken Horse Park Foundation · Kevin & Brittany Kisner Foundation · Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Aiken County Inc 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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