· Public charity
United Way of Central Alabama Inc
Uwca's mission is to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another and to improve their community.
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 113 grants below total $25,953,396 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $71,789,636 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,836,240 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 $10k8 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $896k
- $50k–250k40 grants · $5.0M
- $250k+29 grants · $20M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - MID ALABAMA REGION | $2,519,873 |
| SALVATION ARMY - BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA AREA COMMAND | $1,492,219 |
| YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $1,351,332 |
| GATEWAY | $1,018,024 |
| BRIDGEWAYS (FORMERLY CAMP FIRE AL) | $855,059 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - GREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL | $834,465 |
| CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY | $810,591 |
| YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM INC | $742,900 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $737,561 |
| WORKSHOPS INC | $675,908 |
| CRISIS CENTER | $665,389 |
| UNITED ABILITY | $656,607 |
| AG GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $625,644 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $609,395 |
| POSITIVE MATURITY INC | $588,054 |
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, $75.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +22% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
128 repeat relationships — 101 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 5 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2017–2024 · $22M · revenue +46%
- BIBridgeways Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +18% · 75% of their budget
- CACHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA8× · 2017–2024 · $6.9M · revenue +6%
Funded once
- PVPRIORITY VETERAN INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1.2M · revenue +51% · 100% of their budget
- HOHANDS ON BIRMINGHAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $361k · revenue +60% · 77% of their budget
- CCCHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIESone grant, 2017 · $83k · revenue -49%
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.
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation
Goodwill industries provides training and employment for handicapped persons.
To educate, empower, and improve services for mental health consumers in the state of alabama.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
The mission of the organization is to reduce the effects of proverty in walker county, al
Administration of federal, state and local awards and grants for the poverty sector of a 7 county area in alabama, providing headstart education, food, shelter, maintenance, and weatherization programs.
Established to serve as an advocate of children & to reduce the trauma & anxiety of victims of child abuse by providing coordinated multi- disciplinary & human approach to the investigation & interviewing process.
Social services
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.
Uniting people and resources in building a stronger, healthier community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connection Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
161 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. 161 of the 191 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds Gateway ↗
- Who funds Bridgeways Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds A G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE MATURITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDCARE RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Central Alabama Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds ALETHEIA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF WALKER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds GREATER BIRMINGHAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Travelers Aid Society of Greater Bham Alabama Inc ↗
- Who funds LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Shelby Emergency Assistance Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR OUR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA HEAD INJURY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF ALABAMA 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Community Partnership of Alabama Inc · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Protective Life Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation
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 Central Alabama Inc 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.
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.