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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.

$72M
Granted FY2024still arriving
113
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Human Services$82MHealth$41MYouth Development$41MPublic Safety & Disaster$22MHousing & Shelter$6.8MEmployment$6.6MPhilanthropy$4.1MEducation$4.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 113 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 113 grants below total $25,953,396, the rows itemized in this filing. The $71,789,636 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,836,240 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 $10k8 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $896k
  • $50k–250k40 grants · $5.0M
  • $250k+29 grants · $20M
$93,728
Median grant
2
States reached
$141M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2.9M → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2.9M → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2.8M → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS - MID ALABAMA REGION: $2.5M → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS - MID ALABAMA REGION: $2.5M → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS - MID ALABAMA REGION: $2.5M → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS - MID ALABAMA REGION: $2.5M → 16%GATEWAY: $1.2M → 16%POSITIVE MATURITY INC: $662k → 16%POSITIVE MATURITY INC: $652k → 16%POSITIVE MATURITY INC: $648k → 16%POSITIVE MATURITY INC: $634k → 16%GATEWAY: $1.2M → 16%GATEWAY: $1.1M → 16%GATEWAY: $1.1M → 16%GATEWAY: $1.0M → 16%GATEWAY: $1.0M → 16%GATEWAY: $1.0M → 16%GATEWAY: $1.0M → 16%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $939k → 16%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $918k → 16%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $911k → 16%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $889k → 16%CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $811k → 16%CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $811k → 16%CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $800k → 16%CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $800k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $653k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $641k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $640k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $637k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3.0M → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $1.6M → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $1.6M → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $1.5M → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $1.5M → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL AL: $1.4M → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $1.4M → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $1.4M → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $1.3M → 16%YMCA OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $855k → 16%YMCA OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $847k → 16%YMCA OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $836k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM INC: $810k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM INC: $743k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM INC: $737k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM INC: $729k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM INC: $729k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
KS
SC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$213M · 128 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

128
51

Total granted

$213M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+8%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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 ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    8× · 2017–2024 · $22M · revenue +46%
  • BI
    Bridgeways Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +18% · 75% of their budget
  • CA
    CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.9M · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • PV
    PRIORITY VETERAN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1.2M · revenue +51% · 100% of their budget
  • HO
    HANDS ON BIRMINGHAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $361k · revenue +60% · 77% of their budget
  • CC
    CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES
    one grant, 2017 · $83k · revenue -49%
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
The Arc of Alabama Inc

The arc of alabama provides services to advocate and aid individuals with cognitive, intellectual, and developmental disabilities in the state of alabama.

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2
Child Advocacy Center of Cullman Inc

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

Human Services
3
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
4
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
5
Central Alabama Regional Child Advocacy Center

Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.

Crime & Legal
6
Goodwill Industries of Central Alabama

Goodwill industries provides training and employment for handicapped persons.

Employment
7
United Way of West Alabama Inc

The mission of united way of west alabama is to promote the general welfare of the citizens of west alabama by: raising funds, on an annual basis, to assist the effective delivery of health and human care programs and services, allocating…

Philanthropy
8
Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health
9
Southeast Alabama Child Advocacy Center

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.

Human Services
10
Nami Alabama Inc

Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness

Health
11
River Region United Way

The mission of the river region united way is to improve the quality of life in the communities it serves by creating lasting and sustainable changes in the community conditions. in its daily operation, river region united way will unite…

Philanthropy
12
Central North Al Health Service Inc

Provide primary health care to mostly low-income and underserved persons.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connection Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

161 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. 161 of the 191 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.

21
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
152/161
Grantees still filing
104/161
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $21,618,168 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Consti…YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM: $11,593,888 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHA…Gateway: $8,743,901 · Human ServicesGatewayCHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA: $6,877,739 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMATHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $6,358,549 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF…POSITIVE MATURITY INC: $4,903,717 · Human ServicesPOSITIVE MATURITY INCCHILDCARE RESOURCES: $4,815,753 · Human ServicesCHILDCARE RESOURCESTHE ARC OF WALKER COUNTY: $2,973,859 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS INC: $2,591,683 · Human Services+21 more: $6,179,545 · Human Services+21 moreSALVATION ARMY - BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA AREA COMMAND: $12,719,003 · OtherSALVATION ARMY - BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA AR…GREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $7,192,473 · OtherGREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS…CRISIS CENTER INC: $5,626,831 · OtherCRISIS CENTER INCThe Arc of Central Alabama Inc: $4,700,959 · OtherThe Arc of Central Alabama IncAMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC: $3,686,309 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham Inc: $3,093,606 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $2,860,616 · Other+120 more: $33,201,050 · Other+120 moreBridgeways Inc: $7,389,459 · Youth DevelopmentBridgeways IncGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $6,216,729 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORA…A G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $5,205,340 · Youth DevelopmentA G GASTON BOYS…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $5,083,265 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CL…GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA: $4,098,244 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF …+1 more: $638,731 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED ABILITY INC: $5,526,843 · HealthUNITED ABILI…The Children's Hospital of Alabama: $5,332,295 · HealthThe Children…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $4,939,872 · HealthAMERICAN CAN…ALETHEIA HOUSE INC: $3,441,295 · HealthALETHEIA HOU…ALABAMA HEAD INJURY FOUNDATION INC: $1,330,402 · HealthALABAMA HEAD…Developing Alabama Youth Foundation Inc: $1,010,066 · HealthAlabama Kidney Foundation Inc: $893,492 · Health+8 more: $2,110,322 · Health+8 moreWORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC: $5,627,900 · EmploymentGREATER BIRMINGHAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $2,697,217 · Housing & ShelterPRIORITY VETERAN INC: $1,195,622 · Housing & Shelter+4 more: $55,729 · Housing & ShelterBETTER BASICS INC: $1,331,998 · Crime & LegalBLOUNT COUNTY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $908,301 · Crime & LegalIMPACT FAMILY COUNSELING: $778,536 · Crime & LegalShelby County Children's Advocacy Center: $394,398 · Crime & LegalLegal Aid Society of Birmingham: $183,478 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $6,329 · Crime & Legal
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 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 budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $21,618,168 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM: $11,593,888 over 8y, 20% of budgetGateway: $8,743,901 over 8y, 19% of budgetBridgeways Inc: $7,389,459 over 8y, 75% of budgetGREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $7,192,473 over 8y, 21% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA: $6,877,739 over 8y, 19% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $6,358,549 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $6,216,729 over 8y, 58% of budgetWORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC: $5,627,900 over 8y, 36% of budgetCRISIS CENTER INC: $5,626,831 over 8y, 22% of budgetUNITED ABILITY INC: $5,526,843 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $5,332,295 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetA G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $5,205,340 over 8y, 51% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $5,083,265 over 8y, 26% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $4,939,872 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPOSITIVE MATURITY INC: $4,903,717 over 8y, 42% of budgetCHILDCARE RESOURCES: $4,815,753 over 8y, 41% of budgetThe Arc of Central Alabama Inc: $4,700,959 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA: $4,098,244 over 8y, 12% of budgetALETHEIA HOUSE INC: $3,441,295 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham Inc: $3,093,606 over 8y, 34% of budgetTHE ARC OF WALKER COUNTY: $2,973,859 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $2,860,616 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetGREATER BIRMINGHAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $2,697,217 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetPATHWAYS INC: $2,591,683 over 8y, 40% of budgetFELLOWSHIP HOUSE INC: $2,026,893 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetTravelers Aid Society of Greater Bham Alabama Inc: $2,014,324 over 8y, 72% of budgetLEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,921,178 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetShelby Emergency Assistance Inc: $1,707,539 over 8y, 38% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTION INC: $1,627,348 over 8y, 21% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $1,572,820 over 8y, 32% of budgetCONCERNED CITIZENS FOR OUR YOUTH INC: $1,377,952 over 8y, 28% of budgetBETTER BASICS INC: $1,331,998 over 8y, 14% of budgetALABAMA HEAD INJURY FOUNDATION INC: $1,330,402 over 8y, 17% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF NORTHWEST: $1,241,215 over 8y, 37% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF ALABAMA INC: $1,236,499 over 2y, 13% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INC: $1,213,754 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetBirmingham Urban League Inc: $1,204,213 over 8y, 22% of budgetPRIORITY VETERAN INC: $1,195,622 over 1y, 100% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $1,167,774 over 8y, 13% of budgetCOLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM: $1,127,110 over 8y, 12% of budgetGLENWOOD INC: $1,106,632 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetThe Arc of Shelby County Inc: $1,084,223 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetDeveloping Alabama Youth Foundation Inc: $1,010,066 over 8y, 13% of budgetTHE SAFEHOUSE OF SHELBY COUNTY INC: $988,674 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA: $967,990 over 8y, 9.7% of budgetBLOUNT COUNTY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $908,301 over 8y, 22% of budgetAlabama Kidney Foundation Inc: $893,492 over 8y, 6.8% 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 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Alabama Power Foundat…The Daniel Foundation…Community Partnership…Orlean & Ralph W Bees…Protective Life Found…Hill Crest Foundation…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Walker Area Community…Robert R Meyer Founda…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…Mike and Gillian Good…
The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL142.1× affinity85 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
53report 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 191 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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