How much did UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC grant in FY2024?

Human Services$77MYouth Development$29MHealth$25MEmployment$5.6MHousing & Shelter$3.9MCrime & Legal$3.6MEducation$3.2MFood & Nutrition$3.2MPhilanthropy$2.8MOther$64M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

collaboration sailhandsrevchildrenscollaboration educationcapitallicensed

2019

collaboration sailexcellent affordableaffordable healthcaresail donorcollaboration educationsystemjefferson

2020

collaboration sailcollaboration educationstudentlicensedclassroombusinessreadiness

2021

allocationsbold goalssystemjesus christlicenseddhrbaldwin

2022

allocationchiltonjobtanif jobsclothingathleticsboard

2023

hoovercontributionschiltonjobtanif jobsvictimsoutreach

2024

contributionsdistributioncapitalchiltoncreatejobtanif jobs

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 113 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $63k
$10k–50k36 grants · $896k
$50k–250k40 grants · $5.0M
$250k+29 grants · $20M

$93,728

Median grant

States reached

$141M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $75.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$214M · 130 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

130 repeat relationships — 103 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

130

Total granted

$214M

$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+8%

Still filing today

83%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

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AMERICAN RED CROSS - MID ALABAMA REGION
8× · 2017–2024 · $22M · revenue +9%
CF
CAMP FIRE ALABAMA
8× · 2017–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +18% · 75% of their budget
YV
YMCA-SHADES VALLEY FAMILY BRANCH
8× · 2017–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +12%

Funded once

PV
PRIORITY VETERAN INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $1.2M · revenue +36% · 100% of their budget
HO
HANDS ON BIRMINGHAM INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $361k · revenue +121% · 77% of their budget
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE
one grant, 2022 · $187k · revenue -59%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Alabama Partnership for Children

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.

Education

Child Advocacy Center of Cullman

Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation

Human Services

Alabama Association of Habitat

Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.

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Wings Across Alabama

To educate, empower, and improve services for mental health consumers in the state of alabama.

Education

Community Kitchens of Birmingham

Assistance to homeless and needy persons.

Food & Nutrition

Community Works Inc

To provide financial, budgeting, administrative, management, operational, strategic planning, and other support, services and resources to and for the benefit of, and to further the purposes of, the arc of central alabama, inc., as the…

Health

Legal Services Alabama Inc

Legal services alabama is a statewide nonprofit dedicated to providing access to justice and quality civil legal assistance to educate and empower alabama's low-income community.

Crime & Legal

Alabama Values

Alabama values is a communications hub seeking to amplify progressive voices and policies in alabama. our goal is to provide messenging and communications leadership and infrastructure to organizations and coalitions to build community…

Arts & Culture

United Way of Wilson County & the Upper Cumberland

The United Way of Wilson County exists to enhance the quality of life through a combined effort of individuals and organizations pulling together to address health and human service needs in Wilson County and the Upper Cumberland.

Human Services

Alabama Association of Nonprofits

To strengthen the capacity of alabama's nonprofit sector through professional development, advocacy, and management support, all resulting in better communities and a stronger alabama.

Human Services

Leadership Alabama Inc

Improve state networking and relations among state leaders.

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Walker County Community Agency Inc

The mission of the organization is to reduce the effects of proverty in walker county, al

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is Global Impact. 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.5%1/190

the rest of the field

12%

978/8,403

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.

05the grantee network

160 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

150/160

Grantees still filing

109/160

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$76,656,802Other$73,080,847Youth Development$28,631,768Health$24,584,587Employment$5,627,900Housing & Shelter$3,948,568Crime & Legal$3,603,040

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of GreaterAL152× affinity94 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Community Partnership of Alabama Inc · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Protective Life Foundation · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PRIORITY VETERAN INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 463483941 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PRIORITY VETERAN INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way of Central Alabama Inc?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Central Alabama Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

160 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Central Alabama Inc?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

160 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Central Alabama Inc?

More from the funding graph