South Carolina · Public charity
United Way of Anderson County
The mission of the UNITED WAY OF ANDERSON COUNTY is to improve our community by providing leadership in identifying needs, securing and leveraging resources and driving action.
- $502k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $489k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $19,800
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $121,225
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations United Way of Anderson County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $489k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $541k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $406k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $434k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $371k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $661k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $554k | 18% |
| FY2017 | 28 | $602k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Mens Christian Association of Anderson South Carolina | $1,081,488 | 8 | 4% |
| Anderson Free Clinic | $333,857 | 8 | 1% |
| The Champions Center | $314,767 | 8 | 11% |
| Anderson Interfaith Ministries | $235,004 | 4 | 2% |
| First Light | $182,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Safe Harbor Inc | $161,811 | 7 | 1% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Anderson Inc | $136,600 | 8 | 1% |
| Meals on Wheels Inc | $114,621 | 8 | 3% |
| Cancer Association of Anderson | $107,270 | 7 | 3% |
| Shalom House Ministries Inc | $96,000 | 7 | 3% |
Show all 38 grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($137k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Anderson County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Abney Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Ta Gambrill Foundation Ct-Main · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Mary R Ramseur Charitable Trust · Sc Josephine Stevenson Trust · United Way of Pickens County · The Webbcraft Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About United Way of Anderson County
- How much does United Way of Anderson County give?
- United Way of Anderson County reported 19 itemized grants totaling $489,308, out of $502,008 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does United Way of Anderson County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (49%), Health (26%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
- Who are United Way of Anderson County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Young Mens Christian Association of Anderson South Carolina ($1.1M), Anderson Free Clinic ($334k), The Champions Center ($315k).
- Does United Way of Anderson County fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Anderson County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dabo's All in Team Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation, Abney Foundation.
- Where is United Way of Anderson County based?
- United Way of Anderson County is based in SC.
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