· Public charity
United Way of Athens-Limestone County
To strenghten and implement the spirit of human helpfulness in the city of athens and limestone county, alabama, to create a fund to be annually collected cooperativley by voluntary contributions, and to study the health, welfare, and human services of limestone county and by cooperative effort meet those needs through the development of…
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 15 grants below total $177,550 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $183,547 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,997 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 $10k5 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIRDIE THORNTON CENTER (ARC) | $19,000 |
| CRISIS SERVICES OF NORTH ALABAMA | $17,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER NORTH ALABAMA | $16,000 |
| LIMESTONE COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL | $16,000 |
| LEARN TO READ COUNCIL | $15,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $14,000 |
| FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $12,250 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $12,000 |
| LIMESTONE COUNTY COUNSELING CENTER | $10,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH ALABAMA | $8,400 |
| RETIRED SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM (RSVP) | $8,000 |
| FULL TUMMY PROJECT | $7,500 |
| GREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $6,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–22, $217k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
- CSCrisis Services of North Alabama Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $143k · revenue +22%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA8× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +165%
- HOHOSPICE OF LIMESTONE COUNTY6× · 2017–2022 · $71k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $34k
- LCLimestone County Churches Involvedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -12%
- TATHE ALABAMA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +40%
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.
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
Social services
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
To provide volunteer support & training, and the girl scout leadership program within thirty counties in southern alabama.
A statewide trade association which serves as a resource through which its electric cooperative members are provided services for the continuation and advancement of the rural electrification program in Alabama.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
To promote and maintain cooperation among Southern Baptist Churches of Limestone County.
Provide emergency aid to people who experience crisis situations while away from home. This includes information and referral, situational counseling, protective services and, when appropriate, food and transportation.
Autauga Interfaith Care Center, Inc. is a cooperative outreach ministry of Christian churches and individuals in Autauga County, Alabama.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
To promote scouting in the south alabama area
Provide recreational activities, athletic programs, various educational and enrichment programs to members and other youth with an emphasis on the under privileged.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Alabama 4-H Club Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 25 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 Athens Limestone County ARC Inc ↗
- Who funds Crisis Services of North Alabama Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF LIMESTONE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds GREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Retired Senior Volunteer Program ↗
- Who funds Limestone County Churches Involved ↗
- Who funds THE ALABAMA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL 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.
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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 Athens-Limestone 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.