· Public charity
United Way of Chatham County
The mission of the UNITED WAY OF CHATHAM COUNTY is to address the most critical needs of county residents.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $313,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $346,380 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $32,880 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHATHAM LITERACY COUNCIL | $53,800 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $46,550 |
| CHATHAM COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN | $39,500 |
| LOVE CHATHAM | $35,000 |
| CORA FOOD PANTRY | $32,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF CHATHAM COUNTY | $24,000 |
| CHATHAM CARES PHARMACY | $22,500 |
| CHATHAM TRADES | $20,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $15,050 |
| CHATHAM COUNTY 4H | $12,500 |
| THE LEARNING TRAIL | $11,600 |
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 (FY17–25, $234k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +68% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS6× · 2020–2025 · $241k · revenue +305%
CHATHAM TRADES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +109%
CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $227k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- CCCHATHAM COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $265k
- COCOUNCIL ON AGINGone grant, 2019 · $36k
- CFCORA FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2019 · $35k
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 surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Operation of a public charter school.
To support the health and well-being of those we serve through quality, equitable healthcare and to build partnerships within our diverse community.
Provide the highest quality, patient-centered health care services for low-income and other underserved individuals.
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Advance the highest quality of home and community-based care.
Early childhood development and quality daycare services
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
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To provide a normal home life for residents without regard to their disabilities, race, sex, religion, or creed by integrating them into community life whenever possible.
The mission of the united way of chatham county is to address the most critical needs of county residents.
Carolina health centers offers primary care and patient support services to improve health, well-being and quality of life throughout the communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chatham County Council On Aging Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sprott Youth Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 37 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM TRADES INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Love Chatham ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM CARES COMMUNITY PHARMACY ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds PRESERVING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds WEST CHATHAM CARING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds EL FUTURO INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM TRANSIT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Chatham Soccer League ↗
- Who funds SPROTT YOUTH CENTER 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Galloway Ridge Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Carolina Meadows Inc · Wren Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Chatham County 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.
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.