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United Way of Dickson County

The Organization strives to build a stronger community by uniting people & resources to meet local needs.

$26k
Granted FY2020
2
Itemized grants FY2020
2
Organizations funded FY2020
50%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$15k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$10,152
Largest grant, FY2020
$10,152
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$207k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 50% of the organizations United Way of Dickson County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
HealthCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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
FY20202$15k50%
FY20192$19k100%
FY20185$34k80%
FY20172$16kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Human Services$30kHealth$22kFood & Nutrition$10kEducation$9kHousing & Shelter$8kCrime & Legal$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mid-Cumberland Human Resource Agency$18,76420%
Dickson Community Clinic$15,00024%
Dickson County Help Center Inc$10,15211%
Dickson County Board of Education$9,2351n/a
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville$7,99610%
Stars Nashville$6,5001n/a
Child Advocacy Center of the 23rd Judicial District$6,03012%
The University of Tennessee$5,4001n/a
Women Are Safe Inc$5,35712%

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.

The Jackson Foundation IncTN17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jackson Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Dickson County

How much does United Way of Dickson County give?
United Way of Dickson County reported 2 itemized grants totaling $15,152, out of $26,469 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does United Way of Dickson County fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Health (25%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are United Way of Dickson County's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Mid-Cumberland Human Resource Agency ($19k), Dickson Community Clinic ($15k), Dickson County Help Center Inc ($10k).
Does United Way of Dickson County fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Dickson County?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jackson Foundation Inc, United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc.
Where is United Way of Dickson County based?
United Way of Dickson County is based in TN.

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 9 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports $75k 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 FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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