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United Way of Central Missouri Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$280k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $490k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $280k
$26,738
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SALVATION ARMY$280,000
LITTLE EXPLORERS DISCOVERY CENTER$185,145
RAPE AND ABUSE CRISIS SERVICE$173,000
SPECIAL LEARNING CENTER$166,342
COMPASS HEALTH NETWORK$145,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$123,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$98,500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$89,701
JEFFERSON CITY AREA YMCA$85,000
SENIOR NUTRITION CENTER$76,161
THE SNEAKER PROJECT$60,000
CENTRAL MO FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION$53,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$50,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$49,000
COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY BUILDING$48,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%UNLIMITED PLAY: $20k → 5%TRI-COUNTY YMCA: $35k → 13%THE ROLLA MISSION: $16k → 16%COYOTE HILL: $10k → 17%TRI-COUNTY YMCA: $35k → 13%COYOTE HILL: $10k → 17%TRI COUNTY YMCA: $15k → 13%TRI COUNTY YMCA: $15k → 13%TRI COUNTY YMCA: $14k → 13%TRI COUNTY YMCA: $12k → 13%TRI COUNTY YMCA: $12k → 13%ST JAMES CARING CENTER: $10k → 16%OSAGE BEACH SENIOR CENTER: $12k → 13%AMER RED CROSS CENTRALNE MO: $93k → 10%TRI COUNTY YMCA: $10k → 13%COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY BUILDING: $48k → 10%CMFCAA: $46k → 10%COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY BLDG: $40k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $99k → 17%COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY BUILDING: $35k → 10%AMER RED CROSS CENTRALNO MO: $99k → 17%AMER RED CROSS CENTRALNO MO: $99k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $99k → 17%AGING BEST: $28k → 17%AGING BEST: $20k → 17%COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY BLDG: $21k → 10%AGING BEST: $18k → 17%CHILD CARE AWARE: $16k → 17%LITTLE EXPLORERS DISCOVERY: $194k → 10%LITTLE EXPLORERS DISCOVERY: $188k → 10%LITTLE EXPLORERS DISCOVERY: $185k → 10%LITTLE EXPLORERS DISCOVERY: $179k → 10%LITTLE EXPLORERS DISCOVERY: $164k → 10%LITTLE EXPLORERS DISCOVERY: $163k → 10%LITTLE EXPLORERS DISCOVERY: $161k → 10%AMER RED CROSS CENTRALNO MO: $109k → 10%AMER RED CROSS CENTRALNO MO: $104k → 10%AMER RED CROSS CENTRALNO MO: $98k → 10%AMER RED CROSS CENTRALNO MO: $93k → 10%COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $49k → 10%COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $49k → 10%COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $49k → 10%COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $49k → 10%CMFCAA: $46k → 10%COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $45k → 10%INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCE C: $27k → 10%INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCE CENTER: $13k → 10%INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCE C: $11k → 10%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 70 repeat orgs$357k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

70 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
17

Total granted

$16M
$335k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+12%

Still filing today

70%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentHousing & 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

  • CC
    CAPITAL CITY AREA COUNCIL FOR SPECIAL SERVICES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +404%
  • JC
    JEFFERSON CITY DAY CARE CENTERINC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +47% · 27% of their budget
  • JC
    JEFFERSON CITY AREA YMCA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $135k
  • TH
    TRANSFORMATIONAL HOUSINGgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +61%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $23k
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
Mid-Ozark Casa Program

The program provides organization structure, leadership and training for community volunteers who serve as court appointed special advocates(casa) for agbused and neglected children in south central missouri.

Community Improvement
2
Creative Concepts for Living Inc

Assist individuals with developmental disabilities in achieving the goal of living in their community of choice with the necessary support

Human Services
3
Perry County Services Inc

Provide support services to developmentally disabled individuals of perry county,missouri through areas of community employment, job preparation, day programs, transportation and personal assistance.

Human Services
4
Gibson Center for Behavioral Change

The Gibson Center for Behavorial Change is committed to providing comprehensive services which promote new behaviors for a healthy lifestyle.

Health
5
Carthage Crisis Center Inc

The carthage crisis center is committed to restoring homeless and needy people to self sufficiency with god's help.

Health
6
Missouri Centers for Independent Living
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7
Magdala House

To provide outpatient and residential rehabilitative services to individuals and families referred by various government agencies. these individuals include substance abusers, intellectually disabled, developmentally disabled, and abused…

Health
8
Linkability Inc

Provide Case Management for people with developmental disabilities such as autism services, respite care, crisis intervention, self directed services, and Medicaid Home and Cummunity Based Waiver programs. A daycare was opened in 2025 to…

Human Services
9
Mental Health Assoc in Jefferson County Inc

The mental health association is committed to individual service in a community based setting that promotes recovery, dignity, personal growth, self determination and health.

—
10
Jefferson Community Counseling Cent Dba Discovery Behavioral Healthcare

Discovery behavioral healthcare is a community based health treatment center dedicated to providing state of the art services to foster recovery and resilience in an accessible, respective and caring environment.

Youth Development
11
North Central Missouri Mental Health Center

Nc mo mental health center delivers high quality trauma-informed behavioral health services in a caring and compassionate atmosphere that promotes dignity, builds on natural supports, encourages consumer choice, embraces cultural…

Health
12
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass Health Inc; the most unlike its peers is Homemaker Health Care Inc. 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

59 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. 59 of the 90 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
47/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP: $1,146,245 · OtherSALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORPJEFFERSON CITY AREA YMCA: $1,064,969 · OtherJEFFERSON CITY AREA YMCAJEFFERSON CITY RAPE AND ABUSE CRISIS SERVICE: $938,707 · OtherJEFFERSON CITY RAPE AND ABUSE CRISIS SERVICECOUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH: $558,187 · OtherCOUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTHSALVATION ARMY: $479,800 · OtherSALVATION ARMYLITTLE EXPLORERS DISCOVERY CENTER: $357,645 · OtherRAPE AND ABUSE CRISIS SERVICE: $330,000 · OtherTHE SNEAKER PROJECT: $310,700 · OtherCOMPASS HEALTH NETWORK: $286,200 · Other+43 more: $2,770,136 · Other+43 moreJEFFERSON CITY DAY CARE CENTERINC: $1,233,211 · Human ServicesJEFFERSON CITY DAY CARE CE…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $889,989 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cros…Senior Nutrition Council of Jefferson City and Cole County: $394,981 · Human ServicesSenior Nutrition Council o…Community Health Center of Central Missouri: $339,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Health Center of…CENTRAL MISSOURI FOSTER CARE & ADOPTION ASSOCIATION: $256,621 · Human ServicesCENTRAL MISSOURI FOSTER CA…JEFFERSON CITY AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $159,500 · Human ServicesTRI COUNTY YMCA OF THE OZARKS: $155,534 · Human Services+13 more: $373,672 · Human Services+13 moreCAPITAL CITY AREA COUNCIL FOR SPECIAL SERVICES: $1,355,541 · EducationCAPITAL C…+2 more: $59,037 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JEFFERSON CITY: $739,669 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF THE MISSOURI HEARTLAND INC: $230,150 · Youth DevelopmentBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $213,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPASS HEALTH INC: $852,595 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY HEARTLAND: $56,336 · Health+6 more: $142,150 · HealthDREAMS TO REALITY: $187,197 · EmploymentCAPITOL PROJECTS INC: $124,284 · EmploymentGATEWAY INDUSTRIES OF ELDON INC: $37,659 · EmploymentTHE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI: $328,944 · Food & Nutrition
Other$8,242,589Human Services$3,802,508Education$1,414,578Youth Development$1,182,819Health$1,051,081Employment$349,140Food & Nutrition$328,944

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

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
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 CAPITAL CITY AREA COUNCIL FOR SPECIAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON CITY DAY CARE CENTERINC ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON CITY AREA YMCA ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON CITY RAPE AND ABUSE CRISIS SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds COMPASS HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JEFFERSON CITY ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds Senior Nutrition Council of Jefferson City and Cole County ↗
  • Who funds Community Health Center of Central Missouri ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds THE SNEAKER PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds HOMEMAKER HEALTH CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL MISSOURI FOSTER CARE & ADOPTION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE MISSOURI HEARTLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds DREAMS TO REALITY ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL CITY CASA ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON CITY AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds TRI COUNTY YMCA OF THE OZARKS ↗
  • Who funds CAPITOL PROJECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds OSAGE COUNTY COMMUNITY LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds ADULT BASIC LITERACY EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds RIVER CITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗

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 Found…Allen P and Josephine…Community Foundation …Orscheln Industries F…Mfa Oil FoundationSt Louis Community Fo…Heart of Missouri Uni…Healthcare Services G…Stafford Family Chari…Missouri Children's T…Je and le Mabee Found…Schell Family Foundat…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    31report 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 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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