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United Way of Dodge City Inc

Raising funds for not for profit agencies to advance the common good by focusing on improving education, helping others achieve financial stability, and promoting healthy lives.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Human Services$173kEducation$144kYouth Development$127kFood & Nutrition$67kHealth$65kCrime & Legal$48kPublic Safety & Disaster$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $24,700, the rows itemized in this filing. The $49,590 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,890 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.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$353k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Manna House$7,200
Crisis Center of Dodge City$6,000
Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas$6,000
Project Teen Safe The Alley$5,500
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 (FY17–24, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%American Red Cross of CWKS: $10k → 13%Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas: $20k → 12%Crisis Center of Dodge City: $15k → 12%Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas: $12k → 12%Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas: $12k → 12%Crisis Center of Dodge City: $10k → 12%Crisis Center of Dodge City: $10k → 12%Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas: $10k → 12%Crisis Center of Dodge City: $8k → 12%Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas: $6k → 12%Crisis Center of Dodge City: $6k → 12%Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas: $6k → 12%Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas: $6k → 12%Crisis Center of Dodge City: $6k → 12%Crisis Center of Dodge City: $6k → 12%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$612k · 13 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$612k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+25%

Still filing today

77%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CC
    Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas
    8× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +554%
  • CC
    Crisis Center of Dodge City Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +10%
  • MH
    MANNA HOUSE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +38%
  • DC
    DODGE CITY SENIOR CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +25%
  • SF
    Santa Fe Trail Council Boy Scouts of America Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -6%
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
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
2
Catholic Social Service Endowment Fund

To provide operational support for Catholic Social Services, a non-profit organization providing adoption, counseling and social care for individuals.

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3
Casa of Johnson County Inc

Recruit and train community volunteers to speak out for abused and neglected children in court proceedings so that they can be permanently placed in a safe, nuturing enviroment as quickly as possible.

Crime & Legal
4
North Central Kansas Casa Inc

The mission of casa is to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in the courts. casa promotes and supports quality volunteer representation for children in order to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing…

Crime & Legal
5
Kansas Recovery Network
Health
6
Catholic Charities of Northern Kansas Inc

Guided by God's love, our mission is to provide compassionate service to all people in need throughout northern Kansas. We do this in a variety of ways which include (a) financial and housing assistance, (b) personal care and basic needs…

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7
Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center

The mission of the Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center (WKCAC) is to heal the trauma of abuse to children and adults through prevention, support and services. Our vision is to ensure that every child and adult has access to trauma-focused…

Crime & Legal
8
Great Plains Youth & Family Service

Provide child abuse prevention, community risk service, delinquency prevention and early childhood intervention programs as well as diversionary services in western oklahoma.

Human Services
9
Catholic Charities Inc

Catholic charities alleviates poverty & builds strong families through numerous programs: homeless shelter, domestic violence shelter, adult day services program, food pantry, counseling.

Human Services
10
Casa of Southwest Oklahoma Inc

Court Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children

Crime & Legal
11
Payne County Youth Services Inc

Payne County Youth Services, Inc. is dedicated to providing free quality services for the positive development and recovery of children, youth, and families.

Human Services
12
Kansas Insurance & Financial Services Education Foundation
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Methodist Western Kansas Mexican- American Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is Project Teen Safe 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DODGE CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $94,925 · OtherDODGE CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGEMANNA HOUSE: $60,317 · OtherMANNA HOUSECASA-Children Worth Saving Inc: $48,000 · OtherCASA-Children Worth Saving IncBig Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc: $42,250 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties IncUNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC: $40,500 · OtherUNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES …USD #443 DODGE CITY: $29,400 · OtherUSD #443 DODGE CITYGIRL SCOUTS OF KS HEARTLAND: $19,750 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF KS HEARTLAND+2 more: $11,250 · OtherCatholic Charities of Southwest Kansas: $71,732 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of Sou…Crisis Center of Dodge City Inc: $60,999 · Human ServicesCrisis Center of Dodge Ci…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cro…PROJECT TEEN SAFE INC: $60,250 · Crime & LegalPROJECT TE…SPARKWHEEL INC: $48,950 · EducationCEREBRAL PALSY RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF KANSAS INC: $24,000 · HealthDodge City Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $11,000 · Community Improvement
Other$346,392Human Services$142,731Crime & Legal$60,250Education$48,950Health$24,000Community Improvement$11,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCatholic Charities of Southwest Kansas: $71,732 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetCrisis Center of Dodge City Inc: $60,999 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetMANNA HOUSE: $60,317 over 7y, 15% of budgetPROJECT TEEN SAFE INC: $60,250 over 8y, 19% of budgetSPARKWHEEL INC: $48,950 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCASA-Children Worth Saving Inc: $48,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc: $42,250 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetUNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC: $40,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCEREBRAL PALSY RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF KANSAS INC: $24,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDodge City Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDODGE CITY SENIOR CENTER INC: $6,250 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSanta Fe Trail Council Boy Scouts of America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Community Foundation …Finnup FoundationFinney County United …Western Kansas Commun…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Southwest KansasKS26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Southwest Kansas · Finnup Foundation · Finney County United Way Inc · Western Kansas Community Foundation · 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 Dodge City Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Dodge City Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
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    How do I get to United Way of Dodge City Inc?

    Find your warmest path to United Way of Dodge City Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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