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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 FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$121k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.0MHealth$1.1MHousing & Shelter$325kYouth Development$215kFood & Nutrition$179kPublic Safety & Disaster$66kCrime & Legal$62kEducation$56kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $489,308, the rows itemized in this filing. The $502,008 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,700 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $267k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $193k
$19,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GIRL SCOUNTS OF SC MIDLANDS$19,800
AMERICAN RED CROSS GREENVILLE$19,800
BLUE RIDGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS$19,800
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$15,500
UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION$13,500
REBUILD UPSTATE$12,000
IVA RECREATION$10,000
SHALOM HOUSE MINISTRIES$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ANDERSON AREA YMCA: $190k → 15%ANDERSON AREA YMCA: $155k → 15%ANDERSON AREA YMCA: $153k → 15%ANDERSON AREA YMCA: $121k → 15%ANDERSON AREA YMCA: $120k → 15%ANDERSON AREA YMCA: $108k → 15%ANDERSON AREA YMCA: $98k → 15%ANDERSON AREA YMCA: $83k → 15%ANDERSON AREA YMCA: $39k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $15k → 10%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $15k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 15%TOUCH THE FUTURE: $8k → 15%ANDERSON AREA YMCA: $8k → 15%ANDERSON AREA YMCA: $7k → 15%THE CHAMPION CENTER: $70k → 15%DEV CTR FOR EXCEPTION CHILDREN: $35k → 15%DEV CTR FOR EXCEPTION CHILDREN: $35k → 15%THE CHAMPION CENTER: $32k → 15%DEV CTR FOR EXCEPTION CHILDREN: $31k → 15%DEV CTR FOR EXCEPTION CHILDREN: $31k → 15%DEV CTR FOR EXCEPTION CHILDREN: $31k → 15%DEV CTR FOR EXCEPTION CHILDREN: $30k → 15%DEV CTR FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN: $21k → 15%NEW FOUND CHILD & FAM SERVICES: $25k → 15%NEW FOUND CHILD & FAM SERVICES: $22k → 15%NEW FOUND CHILD & FAM SERVICES: $22k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $14k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $10k → 15%NEW FOUND CHILD & FAM SERVICES: $10k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $10k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $10k → 15%NEW FOUND CHILD & FAM SERVICES: $10k → 15%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 33 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
10

Total granted

$3.9M
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+13%

Still filing today

85%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentReligionHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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

  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON SOUTH CAROLINA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +6%
  • TC
    THE CHAMPIONS CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +47%
  • AI
    ANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES
    4× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • PR
    PROJECT REST
    one grant, 2017 · $47k · revenue +13%
  • AS
    ANDERSON SCHOOL DISTRICT 2
    one grant, 2023 · $24k
  • UF
    Upstate Fatherhood Coalition
    one grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue -5%
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
Anderson County Community Action Inc

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,…

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2
Carolina Teen Center

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,…

Health
3
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.

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4
Beyond Housing

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…

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5
Southlight Healthcare Inc

Southlight healthcare provides access to high-quality mental health and substance use treatment, fostering a resilient community by supporting individuals in their recovery.

Health
6
Homesafe of Sumner Wilson and Robertson Counties

Homesafe provides safe, temorary shelter, and support services for indivduals who have suffered or have been threatened with emotional or physical abuse.

Human Services
7
My Sister's House Inc

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.

Human Services
8
The Life House Women's Shelter Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Crisis Center of Anderson & Cherokee Co

To aid and support victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse.

Human Services
10
Anson County Homes of Hope

Provide short-term housing for homeless

Housing & Shelter
11
C4 Ministries of Laurens County

General assistance to help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustaiinable independence through a community-based response.

Human Services
12
Anderson Homes Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anderson Interfaith Ministries; 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.
04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
28/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON SOUTH CAROLINA: $1,081,488 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON SOUTH CAROLIN…THE CHAMPIONS CENTER: $314,767 · Human ServicesTHE CHAMPIONS CENTERANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $235,004 · Human ServicesANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIESSAFE HARBOR INC: $161,811 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR INCNEW FOUNDATIONS HOME FOR CHILDREN: $89,275 · Human ServicesUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $73,500 · Human Services+5 more: $141,203 · Human Services+5 moreANDERSON FREE CLINIC: $333,857 · HealthANDERSON FREE CLINICFIRST LIGHT: $182,500 · HealthFIRST LIGHTCANCER ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON: $107,270 · HealthCANCER ASSOCIATION O…SHALOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $96,000 · HealthSHALOM HOUSE MINISTR…ANDERSON-OCONEE SPEECH & HEARING SERVICES INC: $30,750 · HealthHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ANDERSON INC: $136,600 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY O…MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $114,621 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $64,144 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYALSTON WILKES SOCIETY: $61,950 · OtherALSTON WILKES SOCIETYPICKENS COUNTY YMCA: $57,732 · OtherPICKENS COUNTY YMCATHE SALVATION ARMY: $53,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYBLUE RIDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $40,113 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS ANDERSON: $36,491 · OtherUNITED HOUSING CONNECTIONS: $42,000 · OtherTHE BOWERS-RODGERS HOME FOUNDATION: $38,311 · Other+11 more: $173,950 · Other+11 moreREBUILD UPSTATE: $93,152 · ReligionTHE LOT PROJECT: $60,450 · ReligionBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE UPSTATE INC: $62,064 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC: $60,865 · Youth DevelopmentFAVOR INC: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMES OF HOPE INC: $43,252 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITYWORKS INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCLEMSON COMMUNITY CARE INCORPORATED: $43,561 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$2,097,048Health$750,377Other$818,912Religion$153,602Youth Development$140,929Housing & Shelter$53,252Food & Nutrition$43,561

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 budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON SOUTH CAROLINA: $1,081,488 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetANDERSON FREE CLINIC: $333,857 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHAMPIONS CENTER: $314,767 over 8y, 11% of budgetANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $235,004 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetFIRST LIGHT: $182,500 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetSAFE HARBOR INC: $161,811 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ANDERSON INC: $136,600 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $114,621 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetCANCER ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON: $107,270 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetSHALOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $96,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetREBUILD UPSTATE: $93,152 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetNEW FOUNDATIONS HOME FOR CHILDREN: $89,275 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $73,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC: $60,865 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LOT PROJECT: $60,450 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetPICKENS COUNTY YMCA: $57,732 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetANDERSON'S EMERGENCY KITCHEN INC: $56,620 over 5y, 27% of budgetPROJECT REST: $46,672 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCLEMSON COMMUNITY CARE INCORPORATED: $43,561 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetHOMES OF HOPE INC: $43,252 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED HOUSING CONNECTIONS: $42,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBLUE RIDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $40,113 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BOWERS-RODGERS HOME FOUNDATION: $38,311 over 3y, 37% of budgetANDERSON-OCONEE SPEECH & HEARING SERVICES INC: $30,750 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetTHE HELPING HANDS OF CLEMSON INC: $19,911 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetIVA COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER: $19,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetUpstate Fatherhood Coalition: $17,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetANDERSON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $15,340 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOUCH THE FUTURE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 18% 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 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 ↗

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.

Dabo's All in Team Fo…Duke Energy FoundationAbney FoundationUnited Way of Greenvi…Ta Gambrill Foundatio…Mary Black Foundation…Scansource Charitable…Sisters of Charity Fo…Mary R Ramseur Charit…Sc Josephine Stevenso…United Way of Pickens…The Webbcraft Family …
Dabo's All in Team FoundationSC30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    14report 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 45 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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