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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
1
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2021 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–21, $914k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%Kings Mountain Crisis Ministry: $50k → 17%Kings Mountain Crisis Ministry: $48k → 17%Kings Mountain Crisis Ministry: $48k → 17%Kings Mountain Crisis Ministry: $47k → 17%Kings Mountain Crisis Ministry: $38k → 17%Cleveland Cty Council on Aging: $60k → 17%Cleveland Cty Council on Aging: $55k → 17%Cleveland Cty Council on Aging: $55k → 17%Hospice of Cleveland County: $50k → 17%Hospice of Cleveland County: $50k → 17%Hospice of Cleveland County: $50k → 17%Hospice of Cleveland County: $50k → 17%Hospice of Cleveland County: $50k → 17%Cleveland Cty Council on Aging: $43k → 17%Life Enrichment Center: $43k → 17%Life Enrichment Center: $40k → 17%Cleveland Cty Council on Aging: $40k → 17%Life Enrichment Center: $38k → 17%Life Enrichment Center: $37k → 17%Life Enrichment Center: $25k → 17%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 22 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

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

$4.0M
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+23%

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.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesCrime & LegalEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club Cleveland County
    5× · 2017–2021 · $342k · revenue +156%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON THE AGING OF CLEVELAND COUNTY NC INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $253k · revenue +28%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $250k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • WO
    WASHINGTON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +23%
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
Cleveland Mediation Center

Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…

Crime & Legal
2
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.

Philanthropy
3
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
4
Childrens Homes of Cleveland County Inc

To provide services for Cleveland County children and families in which they have the opportunity to come together to learn, to grow and to develop in a safe, stable environment - because we care.

Human Services
5
Transportation Admin of Cleveland County

To provide safe and convenient transportation for elderly and handicapped citizens.

Public Benefit
6
Cleveland Hope Exchange Inc

To serve the local community of Cleveland, OH by distributing food, Bibles, backpacks, school supplies, hygiene products, and other essential consumer goods to alleviate poverty and homelessness.

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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
Crisis Center of Russell County

The Crisis Center of Russell County was organized to provide assistance and temporary housing to victims of domestic abuse through secured temporary housing and education with job placement to transition them back into society. In…

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Clermont Counseling Center

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
10
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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11
Crossroads Crisis Center Inc

The mission of Crossroads Crisis Center is to enhance safety for survivors of domestic violence and their children by educating, advocating, and empowering individuals. Through our leadership and expertise we strive to engage our…

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12
Cleveland Pregnancy Center

Providing Biblical, life-affirming resources and services to those affected by unplanned pregnancy.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inter-Faith Alliance Corporation Dba Hope & Love Rescue Mission; 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 tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 23 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Childrens Homes of Cleveland County Inc: $365,300 · Human ServicesChildrens Homes of Cleveland County IncCOUNCIL ON THE AGING OF CLEVELAND COUNTY NC INC: $253,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL ON THE AGING OF CLEVELAND COUNTY NC INCHOSPICE OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INCKings Mountain Crisis Ministry Inc: $228,900 · Human ServicesKings Mountain Crisis Ministry IncINTER-FAITH ALLIANCE CORPORATION DBA CLEVELAND COUNTY RESCUE MISSION: $214,400 · Human ServicesINTER-FAITH ALLIANCE CORPORATION DBA CLEVELAND C…THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INC: $191,000 · Human ServicesTHE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND COUNT…Life Enrichment Center of Cleveland County Inc: $182,500 · Human ServicesLife Enrichment Center of Cleveland County Inc+1 more: $44,850 · Human ServicesBoys and Girls Club Cleveland County: $342,310 · OtherBoys and Girls Club Clevelan…THE SALVATION ARMY: $337,800 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYCLEVELAND COUNTY HEARTS AND HOOVES INC: $114,500 · OtherCLEVELAND COUNTY HEARTS AND …PIEDMONT COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 420: $74,500 · OtherPIEDMONT COUNCIL INC BOY SCO…ALCONON CLUB OF SHELBY INC: $51,500 · OtherCounty of Cleveland: $51,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity in Cleveland County: $37,500 · Other+1 more: $7,500 · OtherCleveland County Abuse Prevention Council Inc: $349,750 · Crime & LegalCleveland County…The Childrens Advocacy Center of Cleveland County: $238,800 · Crime & LegalThe Childrens Ad…Communities in Schools of Cleveland County Inc: $231,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY MATH ACADEMY INC: $76,800 · EducationUnited Way of Cleveland County Inc: $158,000 · PhilanthropyCleveland County Community Development Corp Inc: $155,000 · Housing & ShelterCleco Primary Care Network Inc: $64,500 · Health
Human Services$1,729,950Other$1,016,610Crime & Legal$588,550Education$307,800Philanthropy$158,000Housing & Shelter$155,000Health$64,500

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

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
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.

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 FoundationHospice Cleveland Cou…The Paul and Margaret…Dover Foundation IncThe Neisler Foundatio…Duke Energy FoundationNatl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 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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