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United Way of Brown County

To raise and accept donations for charitable purposes, distribute funds to charitable organizations in our community.

$230k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$216k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$231kHuman Services$30kHousing & Shelter$23kHealth$14kReligion$14kFood & Nutrition$13kYouth Development$11kRecreation & Sports$8k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $216,231, the rows itemized in this filing. The $229,651 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,420 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.
$216,231
Median grant
1
States reached
$87k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS$216,231
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MT STERLING COMM CENTER YMCA: $30k → 14%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 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.

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West Central Child Care Connection Inc

Resource & referral child care

Human Services
2
Central County United Way

Central County United Way connects people, resources and ideas to create a thriving community characterized by productive youth programs, senior services, healthy people and the community in which we live.

Philanthropy
3
Illinois Valley Ymca

To put christian principles into practice that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.

Human Services
4
West Central Initiative

Serving to improve west central minnesota through funding, programs, and technical assistance. vision of a vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable world starts here in west central minnesota.

Philanthropy
5
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
6
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Illinois Capital Region Inc

To help children reach their full potential through life-changing, professionally supported, one-to-one mentoring relationships.

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7
United Way of South Central Illinois

To solicit, collect, and otherwise raise money from the citizens of washington, marion, jefferson, franklin, hamilton, wayne, white, edwards, and wabash counties in southern illinois for charitable, philanthropic, and benevolent purposes.

Philanthropy
8
Western Illinois Regional Council - Community Action Agency

Western illinois regional council's mission is to partner with people and communities to improve lives and neighborhoods.

Education
9
West Central Illinois Case Coordination Unit

To promptly and efficiently promote and provide a wide array of programs to meet the needs of the elderly, their families and those who care for them in a confidential and professional manner.

Unclassified
10
United Way of Clinton County Iowa

To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.

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11
Prairieland United Way Inc

To provide financial assistance to charitable organizations for the benefit of surrounding communities

Philanthropy
12
Mid-Il Big Brothers Big Sisters

Provide mentoring services to at-risk children in central il

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Quincy Area; the most unlike its peers is West Central Illinois Health Corporation. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF BROWN COUNTY: $216,231 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BROWN COUNTYCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE QUINCY AREA: $15,250 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE QUINCY AREABROWN COUNTY MINISTERIUM: $13,774 · OtherBROWN COUNTY…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $10,632 · OtherBIG BROTHERS…BROWN COUNTY FOOD BASKET: $7,447 · OtherBROWN COUNTY…SCHUYLER COUNTY FOOD BASKET: $6,000 · OtherSCHUYLER COU…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $30,148 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN…THE TWO RIVERS COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $23,244 · Housing & ShelterWest Central Illinois Health Corporation: $7,463 · HealthFAMILY CARE & PREGNANCY CENTER: $6,667 · HealthLITTLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL: $7,680 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$231,481Other$37,853Human Services$30,148Housing & Shelter$23,244Health$14,130Recreation & Sports$7,680

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $30,148 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE TWO RIVERS COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $23,244 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE QUINCY AREA: $15,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $10,632 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL: $7,680 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Central Illinois Health Corporation: $7,463 over 1y, 78% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to United Way of Brown County through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 11 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $236k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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