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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 FY2021
19
Organizations funded FY2021
5%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$33,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$53,300
Organizations funded a year
19 to 22
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$1.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 5% of the organizations United Way of Cleveland County Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY202119$586k5%
FY202022$762k0%
FY201921$815k0%
FY201822$922k0%
FY201722$936kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Human Services$1.3MHealth$723kCrime & Legal$589kYouth Development$417kHousing & Shelter$407kEducation$308kPublic Safety & Disaster$274kFood & Nutrition$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

United Way of Cleveland County Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildrens Homes of Cleveland County Inc: $365,300 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetCleveland County Abuse Prevention Council Inc: $349,750 over 5y, 11% of budgetBoys and Girls Club Cleveland County: $342,310 over 5y, 22% of budgetCouncil on the Aging of Cleveland County Nc Inc: $253,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetHospice of Cleveland County Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Childrens Advocacy Center of Cleveland County: $238,800 over 5y, 42% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Cleveland County Inc: $231,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetKings Mountain Crisis Ministry Inc: $228,900 over 5y, 36% of budgetInter-Faith Alliance Corporation Dba Cleveland County Rescue Mission: $214,400 over 4y, 16% of budgetThe Mental Health Association of Cleveland County Inc: $191,000 over 5y, 73% of budgetLife Enrichment Center of Cleveland County Inc: $182,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUnited Way of Cleveland County Inc: $158,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCleveland County Community Development Corp Inc: $155,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetCommunity Math Academy Inc: $76,800 over 5y, 11% of budgetPiedmont Council Inc Boy Scouts of America 420: $74,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCleco Primary Care Network Inc: $64,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $44,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity in Cleveland County: $37,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetWashington Outreach Ministry Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 2.5% 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 19.

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.

Albemarle FoundationNC23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albemarle Foundation · Hospice Cleveland County Foundation · The Paul and Margaret Porter Charitable Foundation · Dover Foundation Inc · The Neisler Foundation TUA · Duke Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Cleveland County Inc

How much does United Way of Cleveland County Inc give?
United Way of Cleveland County Inc reported 19 grants totaling $490,146 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does United Way of Cleveland County Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Health (18%), Crime & Legal (15%).
Who are United Way of Cleveland County Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Childrens Homes of Cleveland County Inc ($365k), Cleveland County Abuse Prevention Council Inc ($350k), Boys and Girls Club Cleveland County ($342k).
Does United Way of Cleveland County Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Cleveland County Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albemarle Foundation, Hospice Cleveland County Foundation, The Paul and Margaret Porter Charitable Foundation.
Where is United Way of Cleveland County Inc based?
United Way of Cleveland County Inc is based in NC.

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 23 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $713k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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