· Public charity
United Way of Douglas County Inc
Fighting poverty and improving lives by uniting douglas county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $402,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $491,755 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $89,755 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k9 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $177k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S CENTER | $60,000 |
| WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER | $60,000 |
| BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER | $57,000 |
| POSITIVE BRIGHT START | $45,000 |
| TENANTS TO HOMEOWNERS | $35,000 |
| LAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER | $35,000 |
| SUCCESS BY 6 COALITION | $30,000 |
| JUST FOOD | $20,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $20,000 |
| SUNRISE PROJECT | $15,000 |
| VAN GO INC | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $453k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2022, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- EBELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC6× · 2017–2022 · $390k · revenue +151%
- LCLAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER INC6× · 2017–2022 · $350k · revenue +301%
- TTTENANTS TO HOMEOWNERS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $331k · revenue +260%
Funded once
- HCHEALTH CARE ACCESS INCone grant, 2017 · $139k
- ACAMERICANRED CROSS OF DOUGLAS COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $20k
- TITRINITY IN-HOME CARE INCone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Dccca's mission is improving lives. we provide social and community services that improve the safety, health, and well-being of those we serve.
To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.
Continue to operate a self-sustaining, state of the art dental clinic that serves all patients including those who are insured, under insured, uninsured or medicade participants for residents of northwest kansas and surrounding areas.
Support employment assistance individuals with developmental disabilities in selecting appropriate employment, provide individual training and support when needed for consumers to maintain employment, and to assist consumers.
Reduce the impact an impaired driving crash has on victims, survivors and their families, and increase awareness of the traumatic human consequences of the choice to drive impaired
The mission of the douglas county car care program is to provide car care to enable independence. the purpose of the douglas county car care program is to receive donated vehicles, repair them and then donate them to needy families in…
The kansas cooperative council exists to promote, support and advance the interests, business success, and understanding of agricultural, utility, credit and consumer cooperatives and their members through legislation and regulatory…
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
Zealously advocating for the disability rights of kansans to protect their full participation as citizens.
To provide quality services in a comfortable, empathetic environment to persons suffering from a mental illness or emotional disturbance and to return them to a higher quality of life.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Douglas County Casa Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Elizabeth Ballard Community Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Douglas County Child Development Assoc DBA Positive Bright Start ↗
- Who funds TENANTS TO HOMEOWNERS INC ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS COUNTY DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds The Willow Domestic Violence Center Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES ↗
- Who funds Early Childhood Collective of Douglas County Inc ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SPARKWHEEL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JUST FOOD OF DOUGLAS COUNTY KS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds Housing and Credit Counseling Inc ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEXUAL TRAUMA AND ABUSE CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COTTONWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds HEADQUARTERS KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS COUNTY CASA PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY IN-HOME CARE INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds VAN GO INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds Lawrence Restaurant Association ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Douglas County Community Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · United Way of Kaw Valley Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Topeka Community Foundation · Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Kriz Charitable Fund Inc · The Shumaker Family Foundation · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · The Rotary Club of Lawrence Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization United Way of Douglas County Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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