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United Way of Central Missouri Inc

To unite people and resources in the mid-missouri area by leading and coordinating a community effort to care for one another. 26 public charitable organizations and programs submit annual applications for funding from the united way of central missouri (uwcemo).

$2.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
41
Grants FY2025
37
Organizations funded FY2024
51%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$26,738
Largest grant, FY2025
$280,000
Organizations funded a year
29 to 43
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$4.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 51% of the organizations United Way of Central Missouri Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationReligionEmploymentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving41$2.1M7%
FY202437$2.0M51%
FY202334$1.9M6%
FY202237$1.9M11%
FY202143$2.0M19%
FY202042$1.9M29%
FY201935$1.7M31%
FY201829$1.5M10%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$5.3MYouth Development$3.3MHealth$1.8MEducation$1.5MCrime & Legal$1.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$890kFood & Nutrition$870kEmployment$369kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Capital City Area Council for Special Services$1,355,54196%
Jefferson City Day Care Centerinc$1,233,211727%
Salvation Army National Corp$1,146,2457n/a
Jefferson City Area YMCA$1,064,96992%
Jefferson City Rape and Abuse Crisis Service$938,707715%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$889,98990%
Compass Health Inc$852,59560%
Boys & Girls Club of Jefferson City$739,66977%
Council for Drug Free Youth$558,187831%
Salvation Army$479,8002n/a
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All grantees of United Way of Central Missouri Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Capital City Area Council for Special Services$1,355,54196%
Jefferson City Day Care Centerinc$1,233,211727%
Salvation Army National Corp$1,146,2457n/a
Jefferson City Area YMCA$1,064,96992%
Jefferson City Rape and Abuse Crisis Service$938,707715%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$889,98990%
Compass Health Inc$852,59560%
Boys & Girls Club of Jefferson City$739,66977%
Council for Drug Free Youth$558,187831%
Salvation Army$479,8002n/a
Senior Nutrition Council of Jefferson City and Cole County$394,981758%
Community Health Center of Central Missouri$339,00070%
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri$328,94460%
The Sneaker Project$310,700970%
Homemaker Health Care Inc$264,600746%
Central Missouri Foster Care & Adoption Association$256,62173%
Girl Scouts of the Missouri Heartland Inc$230,15071%
Boy Scouts of America$213,00070%
Dreams to Reality$187,197948%
Capital City Casa$181,49496%
Jefferson City Area Community Services$159,500615%
Tri County YMCA of the Ozarks$155,53494%
Capitol Projects Inc$124,28497%
Osage County Community Living Inc$120,00064%
Adult Basic Literacy Education$86,700745%
River City Habitat for Humanity$83,70052%
4-H Youth$80,5007n/a
Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri$76,97123%
Citizens Against Domestic Violence$75,00072%
Central Missouri Community Action$70,80430%
Central Missouri Area Agency on Aging$66,00030%
Independent Living Resource Center$60,46441%
United Way of Central Missouri Inc$57,94331%
United Cerebral Palsy Heartland$56,33630%
First Chance for Children$43,00042%
El Puente-Hispanic Ministry$43,00032%
Gateway Industries of Eldon Inc$37,65942%
Halo Foundation$37,58721%
The Healing House and New Beginnings Inc$34,00039%
Day Solutions Foundation$32,200359%
Anne Marie Project$31,6102n/a
Special Olympics Missouri Inc$31,29040%
Transformational Housing$30,000120%
Jc Public Schools Foundation$29,6532n/a
Central Missouri Stop Human Trafficking Coalition$28,70048%
Wonderland Camp Foundation$28,50022%
Children's Learning Center of Camden County Inc$27,80242%
The Rolla Mission$25,40022%
Chads Coalition for Mental Health$25,00020%
Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries$20,36420%
Unlimited Play Inc$20,00011%
Lake Area Industries Inc$20,00021%
Missouri Mental Health Foundation$20,00022%
Healing Horses Therapeutic Riding Progam$16,15038%
The Jefferson City Public Schools Foundation$16,03712%
Missouri Child Care Resource and Referral Network$15,64111%
Senior Companion Program Advisory Council Incorporation$15,2502n/a
Saving Kidsight$14,80022%
Moniteau Christian Ministries Center Inc$14,400210%
Casa of South Central Missouri$12,32512%
Russell House Response to Domestic$12,30511%
Osage Beach Senior Center Inc$12,00015%
St James Golden Age Center$10,00014%
Missouri Faith Voices Inc$7,00011%
Capital City Diaper Bank Inc$6,0001n/a
California Nutrition Center Inc$5,200110%

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

United Way of Central Missouri Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCapital City Area Council for Special Services: $1,355,541 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetJefferson City Day Care Centerinc: $1,233,211 over 7y, 27% of budgetJefferson City Area YMCA: $1,064,969 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetJefferson City Rape and Abuse Crisis Service: $938,707 over 7y, 15% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $889,989 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCompass Health Inc: $852,595 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Jefferson City: $739,669 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetCouncil for Drug Free Youth: $558,187 over 8y, 31% of budgetSenior Nutrition Council of Jefferson City and Cole County: $394,981 over 7y, 58% of budgetCommunity Health Center of Central Missouri: $339,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetThe Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri: $328,944 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Sneaker Project: $310,700 over 9y, 70% of budgetHomemaker Health Care Inc: $264,600 over 7y, 46% of budgetCentral Missouri Foster Care & Adoption Association: $256,621 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of the Missouri Heartland Inc: $230,150 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetBoy Scouts of America: $213,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDreams to Reality: $187,197 over 9y, 48% of budgetCapital City Casa: $181,494 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetJefferson City Area Community Services: $159,500 over 6y, 15% of budgetTri County YMCA of the Ozarks: $155,534 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetCapitol Projects Inc: $124,284 over 9y, 7.2% of budgetOsage County Community Living Inc: $120,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetAdult Basic Literacy Education: $86,700 over 7y, 45% of budgetRiver City Habitat for Humanity: $83,700 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCatholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri: $76,971 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCitizens Against Domestic Violence: $75,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetCentral Missouri Community Action: $70,804 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Missouri Area Agency on Aging: $66,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIndependent Living Resource Center: $60,464 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetUnited Way of Central Missouri Inc: $57,943 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Cerebral Palsy Heartland: $56,336 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFirst Chance for Children: $43,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetEl Puente-Hispanic Ministry: $43,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGateway Industries of Eldon Inc: $37,659 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetHalo Foundation: $37,587 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Healing House and New Beginnings Inc: $34,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetDay Solutions Foundation: $32,200 over 3y, 59% of budgetSpecial Olympics Missouri Inc: $31,290 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTransformational Housing: $30,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCentral Missouri Stop Human Trafficking Coalition: $28,700 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetWonderland Camp Foundation: $28,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetChildren's Learning Center of Camden County Inc: $27,802 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetThe Rolla Mission: $25,400 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetChads Coalition for Mental Health: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCoyote Hill Foster Care Ministries: $20,364 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUnlimited Play Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLake Area Industries Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMissouri Mental Health Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 59.

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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.

Veterans United FoundationMO40.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Veterans United Foundation · Allen P and Josephine B Green · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Mfa Oil Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Heart of Missouri United Way Inc · Healthcare Services Group Charitable Foundation · Stafford Family Charitable Trust · Missouri Children's Trust Fund · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Schell Family 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.

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About United Way of Central Missouri Inc

How much does United Way of Central Missouri Inc give?
United Way of Central Missouri Inc reported 41 grants totaling $2,150,072 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does United Way of Central Missouri Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Youth Development (20%), Health (11%).
Who are United Way of Central Missouri Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Capital City Area Council for Special Services ($1.4M), Jefferson City Day Care Centerinc ($1.2M), Salvation Army National Corp ($1.1M).
Does United Way of Central Missouri Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 51% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Central Missouri Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Veterans United Foundation, Allen P and Josephine B Green, Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc.
Where is United Way of Central Missouri Inc based?
United Way of Central Missouri Inc is based in MO.

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 90 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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