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United Way of Denton County Inc

The mission of United Way of Denton County, Inc.

$7.0M
Granted FY2023
15
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$51k
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 2023.

Human Services$1.2MEducation$624kCrime & Legal$259kHealth$225kHousing & Shelter$225kCivil Rights$174kYouth Development$121kCommunity Improvement$27kOther$0
02FY2023 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $377,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,994,554 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,617,554 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $315k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS$51,000
FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY$46,000
OUR DAILY BREAD$38,000
CHILDREN ADVOCACY CENTER DC$38,000
AIDS HEALTH SERVICES N TEXAS$37,950
CASA OF DENTON COUNTY$30,000
DAY STAY FOR ADULTS$20,000
DENTON CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL$20,000
PEDIPLACE$18,000
SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUND$17,500
THE SALVATION ARMY$17,500
SPAN$17,500
HEARTS FOR HOMES$15,000
BIG BROTHERSSISTERS$5,300
YOUH & FAMILY SERVICES$5,250
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 (FY17–23, $742k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CITYCOUNTY DAY NURSERY: $40k → 8%CITYCOUNTY DAY NURSERY: $35k → 8%CITYCOUNTY DAY NURSERY: $24k → 8%CITYCOUNTY DAY NURSERY: $24k → 8%HEARTS FOR HOMES: $15k → 8%HEARTS FOR HOMES: $7k → 8%HEARTS FOR HOMES: $7k → 8%SPAN: $51k → 8%SPAN: $44k → 8%SPAN: $19k → 8%SPAN: $19k → 8%FRED MOORE CHILD CARE: $110k → 8%SPAN: $18k → 8%FRED MOORE CHILD CARE: $89k → 8%FRED MOORE CHILD CARE: $12k → 8%FRED MOORE CHILD CARE: $12k → 8%DAY STAY FOR ADULTS: $54k → 8%DAY STAY FOR ADULTS: $48k → 8%DAY STAY FOR ADULTS: $48k → 8%DAY STAY FOR ADULTS: $47k → 8%DAY STAY FOR ADULTS: $20k → 8%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.
$2.8M · 18 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
1

Total granted

$2.8M
$7k

Still filing today

83%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’22’23
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther
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

  • CI
    Communities in Schools of North Texas Inc
    5× · 2017–2023 · $352k · revenue +86%
  • CA
    CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $259k · revenue +143%
  • SA
    Special Abilities of North Texas Inc
    5× · 2017–2023 · $216k · revenue +239%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
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
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
2
North Dallas Food Pantry

North Dallas Food Pantry (DBA NTX Community Food Pantry) is dedicated to building relationships by sharing resources, hope and faith in a welcoming environment, with love and dignaty.

Human Services
3
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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4
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
5
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
6
Bread for Our Children

Provide nutrition meals for communities in the Dallas/Ft Worth, Texas areas

—
7
Lone Star Casa Inc

Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…

Civil Rights
8
Denton County Crime Stoppers Inc

Crime Stop.

—
9
Northeast Texas Casa Inc

To work to ensure children receive the needed services to overcome abuse and neglect.

Civil Rights
10
Denton Community Health Clinic

Denton Community Health Clinic's purpose is to provide affordable, comprehensive, quality health care to all, regardless of ability to pay.

—
11
Casa of Deep East Texas Inc

Train volunteers to advocate for children in court directed foster care.

Crime & Legal
12
The Lullaby House

The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pediplace Inc; the most unlike its peers is Giving Hope 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 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Communities in Schools of North Texas Inc: $351,800 · Human ServicesCommunities in Schools of North Texas IncFRED MOORE DAY NURSERY INC: $223,400 · Human ServicesFRED MOORE DAY NURSERY INCSpecial Abilities of North Texas Inc: $216,200 · Human ServicesSpecial Abilities of North Texas IncDENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC: $185,600 · Human ServicesDENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INCSPAN INC: $150,700 · Human ServicesSPAN INCDENTON CITY-COUNTY DAY SCHOOL: $122,700 · Human ServicesDENTON CITY-COUNTY DAY SCHOOL+1 more: $29,000 · Human ServicesGIVING HOPE INC: $186,700 · OtherGIVING HOPE INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $166,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYDENTON CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL INC: $149,000 · OtherDENTON CHRISTIAN PRESCH…THE GOODFELLOWS OF PILOT POINT TEXAS: $27,000 · OtherCHISHOLM TRAIL RETIRED SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM INC: $23,000 · Other+3 more: $30,250 · OtherCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC: $258,900 · Crime & LegalCHILDRENS …HEALTH SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC: $206,850 · HealthINTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF DENTON INC: $199,800 · Community ImprovementCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF DENTON COUNTY INC: $174,200 · Civil RightsBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $90,600 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $29,900 · Youth DevelopmentOUR DAILY BREAD INC: $38,000 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$1,279,400Other$582,450Crime & Legal$258,900Health$206,850Community Improvement$199,800Civil Rights$174,200Youth Development$120,500Food & Nutrition$38,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunities in Schools of North Texas Inc: $351,800 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC: $258,900 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetFRED MOORE DAY NURSERY INC: $223,400 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetSpecial Abilities of North Texas Inc: $216,200 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetHEALTH SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC: $206,850 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetINTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF DENTON INC: $199,800 over 2y, 21% of budgetGIVING HOPE INC: $186,700 over 2y, 13% of budgetDENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC: $185,600 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF DENTON COUNTY INC: $174,200 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetSPAN INC: $150,700 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetDENTON CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL INC: $149,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetDENTON CITY-COUNTY DAY SCHOOL: $122,700 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $90,600 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD INC: $38,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $29,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTS FOR HOMES: $29,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTHE GOODFELLOWS OF PILOT POINT TEXAS: $27,000 over 2y, 95% of budgetPEDIPLACE INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Coserv Charitable Fou…Communities Foundatio…Denton Benefit LeagueTexas Women's Foundat…Flow Health Care Foun…Hattie Mae Lesley Fou…United Way of Metropo…Texas Instruments Fou…McKesson Foundation I…Dugas Family Foundati…The Henry FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…
Coserv Charitable FoundationTX32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coserv Charitable Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Denton Benefit League · Texas Women's Foundation · Flow Health Care Foundation Inc · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Dugas Family Foundation Tx Inc · The Henry Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse 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 Denton County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Denton County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 22 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports $700k 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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