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United Way of Cleveland County Inc
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
$490k
Granted FY2021
19
Grants
1
Communities
$53k
Largest
01What you fund
0175% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2021.
Human Services$1.3MCrime & Legal$455kEducation$246kPhilanthropy$133kHousing & Shelter$113kHealth$46kOther$771k
02FY2021 · 19 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $461k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $103k
$33,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Childrens Homes of Cleveland County$53,300
- Hospice of Cleveland County$50,000
- The Salvation Army$48,300
- Abuse Prevention Council$46,000
- Boys & Girls Club of Cleveland County$45,000
- Childrens Advocacy Center$44,000
- Communities in Schools$43,000
- Cleveland Cty Council on Aging$40,000
- Kings Mountain Crisis Ministry$37,500
- Mental Health Association$33,000
- CC Community Development Corporation$33,000
- Foster Grandparent Program$28,000
- Life Enrichment Center$25,000
- Cleveland County Hearts and Hooves$15,000
- Community Math Academy$13,500
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $714k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 16%. 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.
100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.1M · 22 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else
22 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
22
1
Total granted
$3.1M
$8k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+9%
+325%
Still filing today
77%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesCrime & LegalEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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
- BGBoys & Girls Club of Cleveland County4× · 2018–2021 · $261k · revenue +156%
- HOHospice of Cleveland County4× · 2018–2021 · $200k · revenue +73%
- CAChildrens Advocacy Center4× · 2018–2021 · $189k · revenue +80% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- WOWashington Outreach Ministrygraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +325%
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.
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Child Care Connections of Cleveland County Inc
Creating a link between parents, providers, and the community to improve the availability, accessibility and affordability of quality child care.
Education
2
Cabarrus Cooperative Christian Ministry
To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…
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3
Aging Services Inc
To enhance the lives and dignity of cleveland county senior adults by providing programs, services and referrals that assist and promote healthy independent living.
Human Services
4
Cleveland County Family Ymca Inc
To put Christian principles into practice through programs and services that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
Recreation & Sports
5
Clermont Counseling Center
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
Health
6
Clermont Co Community Services
Provide essential services to our clients to assist them in reaching self-sufficiency and improving their quality of life.
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7
Clermont Senior Services Inc
To offer a broad range of community based and Home-Care Services designed to enable older adults to remain independent and active by living healthy lives.
Human Services
8
Habitat for Humanity of Craven County Nc
Seeking to put Gods love into action by bringing people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
Housing & Shelter
9
Cleveland Clergy Alliance
The Cleveland Clergy Alliance in Partnership with the Cuyahoga County Division of Senior and Adult Services conducted a study to better understand the current needs and or concerns of seniors and adults with disabilities within a broad…
Religion
10
Cleveland Hope Exchange Inc
Providing donated food goods and financial resources to alleviate poverty and homelessness in the local community
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11
Community Foundation of Cleveland
To facilitate ethical stewardship of philanthropic resources by helping connect those resources with the needs of cleveland and bradley county tennessee.
Community Improvement
12
Community Counseling Services Inc
We exist for the sole purpose of providing high quality, professional mental health and substance abuse treatment to the individuals and families of crawford and marion counties.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Advocacy Center of Cleveland County and the most unlike its peers is Cleco Primary Care Network 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
19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$1,321,950Other$770,610Crime & Legal$454,550Education$245,500Philanthropy$133,000Housing & Shelter$113,000Health$46,000
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 Childrens Homes of Cleveland County ↗
- Who funds Abuse Prevention Council ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Cleveland County ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Cleveland County ↗
- Who funds Cleveland Cty Council on Aging ↗
- Who funds Childrens Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools ↗
- Who funds Kings Mountain Crisis Ministry ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association ↗
- Who funds Inter-Faith Alliance ↗
- Who funds Life Enrichment Center ↗
- Who funds Foster Grandparent Program ↗
- Who funds CC Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds Community Math Academy ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Council Boy Scouts of America ↗
- Who funds CLECO Primary Care ↗
- Who funds American Red Cross ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds Washington Outreach Ministry ↗
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.
Hospice Cleveland County FoundationNC31.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Hospice Cleveland County Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Paul and Margaret Porter · Celanese Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Cleveland County 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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: Mental Health Association.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.6× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 561806138 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 Mental Health Association, 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
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 73% 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 Cleveland County Inc?
Find your warmest path to United Way of Cleveland County 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.
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