· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $489,308 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $502,008 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,700 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $267k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $193k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANDERSON AREA YMCA | $121,225 |
| ANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES | $72,167 |
| YMCA OF EASLEY | $34,177 |
| ANDERSON FREE CLINIC | $33,950 |
| THE CHAMPION CENTER | $31,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $24,800 |
| CANCER ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON | $22,500 |
| BLUE RIDGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS | $19,800 |
| GIRL SCOUNTS OF SC MIDLANDS | $19,800 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS GREENVILLE | $19,800 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $15,500 |
| UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION | $13,500 |
| REBUILD UPSTATE | $12,000 |
| SHALOM HOUSE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| IVA RECREATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% 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 +46% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON SOUTH CAROLINA8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +6%
- TCTHE CHAMPIONS CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +47%
- AIANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES4× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- PRPROJECT RESTone grant, 2017 · $47k · revenue +13%
- ASANDERSON SCHOOL DISTRICT 2one grant, 2023 · $24k
- UFUpstate Fatherhood Coalitionone grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue -6%
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.
The Anderson County Community Action Commission provides food, clothing, household foods, and essential assistance to low-income residents of Anderson County, Tennessee. The organization operates a community food pantry, clothing closet,…
We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…
Homesafe provides safe, temorary shelter, and support services for indivduals who have suffered or have been threatened with emotional or physical abuse.
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.
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,…
Provide short-term housing for homeless
Southlight healthcare provides access to high-quality mental health and substance use treatment, fostering a resilient community by supporting individuals in their recovery.
Safe Shelter - The LHWS provides unhoused single women and unhoused women with children safe shelter by providing onsite security at all three shelter locations. Keeping these shelters up to date with their proprety maintenance and basic…
To aid and support victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse.
My Sister's House is a nonprofit organization that provides services, programs, and resources to empower victims of domestic violence and their children to be free from abuse.
Providing primary health care and professional counseling services to all indviduals who need it.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anderson Interfaith Ministries and the most unlike its peers is The Bowers-Rodgers Home Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 45 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAMPIONS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ANDERSON INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON ↗
- Who funds SHALOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILD UPSTATE ↗
- Who funds NEW FOUNDATIONS HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE UPSTATE INC ↗
- Who funds ALSTON WILKES SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PICKENS COUNTY YMCA ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON'S EMERGENCY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT REST ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON COMMUNITY CARE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOMES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED HOUSING CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE BOWERS-RODGERS HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON-OCONEE SPEECH & HEARING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HELPING HANDS OF CLEMSON INC ↗
- Who funds IVA COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Upstate Fatherhood Coalition ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
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: 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
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 Anderson County 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.