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United Way of Douglas County Inc

Fighting poverty and improving lives by uniting douglas county.

$492k
Granted FY2022
12
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$60k
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 2022.

Education$1.0MHuman Services$859kHousing & Shelter$777kHealth$775kYouth Development$533kFood & Nutrition$176kPhilanthropy$130kCrime & Legal$35kOther$0
02FY2022 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $402,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $491,755 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $89,755 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 · FY2022

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $177k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DOUGLAS COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT AS: $110k → 15%SENIOR RESOUCE CENTER OF DOUGLAS CT: $20k → 15%SENIOR RESOUCE CENTER OF DOUGLAS CT: $20k → 15%POSITIVE BRIGHT START: $55k → 15%POSITIVE BRIGHT START: $53k → 15%POSITIVE BRIGHT START: $53k → 15%POSITIVE BRIGHT START: $45k → 15%INDEPENDENCE INC: $22k → 15%INDEPENDENCE INC: $22k → 15%INDEPENDENCE INC: $22k → 15%POSITIVE BRIGHT START: $20k → 15%INDEPENDENCE INC: $11k → 15%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 25 repeat orgs$221k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
5

Total granted

$4.1M
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
0%

Still filing today

88%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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

  • EB
    ELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $390k · revenue +151%
  • LC
    LAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $350k · revenue +301%
  • TT
    TENANTS TO HOMEOWNERS INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $331k · revenue +260%

Funded once

  • HC
    HEALTH CARE ACCESS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $139k
  • AC
    AMERICANRED CROSS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • TI
    TRINITY IN-HOME CARE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue 0%
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
Dccca Inc

Dccca's mission is improving lives. we provide social and community services that improve the safety, health, and well-being of those we serve.

Health
3
Safehouse Crisis Center Inc

To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.

Human Services
4
Rawlins County Dental Clinic Fund dba Northwest Smile Center

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.

Health
5
Douglas County Resource Alliance Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Dui Victims Center of Kansas Inc

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

Education
7
Douglas County Car Care Program

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…

Human Services
8
Kansas Cooperative Council

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…

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9
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
10
Disability Rights Center of Kansas Inc

Zealously advocating for the disability rights of kansans to protect their full participation as citizens.

Civil Rights
11
Douglas County Mental Health & Family Counseling Association Inc

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.

Health
12
Bike Share Kc

Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Douglas County Casa Program Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 32 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/30
Grantees still filing
20/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $390,196 · OtherELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INCDOUGLAS COUNTY DENTAL CLINIC INC: $280,900 · OtherDOUGLAS COUNTY DENTAL CLINIC INCThe Willow Domestic Violence Center Inc: $224,000 · OtherThe Willow Domestic Violence Center IncKANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $141,500 · OtherKANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INCHEALTH CARE ACCESS INC: $138,600 · OtherHEALTH CARE ACCESS INCUNITED WAY OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC: $130,016 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INCJUST FOOD OF DOUGLAS COUNTY KS INC: $118,000 · OtherJUST FOOD OF DOUGLAS COUNTY KS INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC: $100,000 · OtherHousing and Credit Counseling Inc: $97,000 · Other+10 more: $298,475 · Other+10 moreLAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER INC: $349,598 · Housing & ShelterLAWRENCE COMMUNIT…TENANTS TO HOMEOWNERS INC: $330,725 · Housing & ShelterTENANTS TO HOMEOW…Early Childhood Collective of Douglas County Inc: $200,722 · EducationEarly Childh…SPARKWHEEL INC: $140,510 · EducationSPARKWHEEL I…COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $140,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY CH…+1 more: $15,000 · EducationDouglas County Child Development Assoc DBA Positive Bright Start: $336,340 · Human ServicesDouglas Cou…INDEPENDENCE INC: $76,475 · Human ServicesINDEPENDENC…SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR RESO…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAWRENCE INC: $366,562 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…+1 more: $10,350 · Youth DevelopmentKANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES: $201,338 · EnvironmentHEARTLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $200,000 · Health
Other$1,918,687Housing & Shelter$680,323Education$496,232Human Services$452,815Youth Development$376,912Environment$201,338Health$200,000

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 budgetELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $390,196 over 6y, 12% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAWRENCE INC: $366,562 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER INC: $349,598 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetDouglas County Child Development Assoc DBA Positive Bright Start: $336,340 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetTENANTS TO HOMEOWNERS INC: $330,725 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY DENTAL CLINIC INC: $280,900 over 4y, 11% of budgetThe Willow Domestic Violence Center Inc: $224,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetKANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES: $201,338 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetEarly Childhood Collective of Douglas County Inc: $200,722 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetHEARTLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $200,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetKANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $141,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSPARKWHEEL INC: $140,510 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $140,000 over 3y, 54% of budgetHEALTH CARE ACCESS INC: $138,600 over 1y, 16% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC: $130,016 over 2y, 11% of budgetJUST FOOD OF DOUGLAS COUNTY KS INC: $118,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHousing and Credit Counseling Inc: $97,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetINDEPENDENCE INC: $76,475 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SEXUAL TRAUMA AND ABUSE CARE CENTER INC: $58,600 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetSENIOR RESOURCE CENTER FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCOTTONWOOD INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEADQUARTERS KANSAS INC: $40,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetLAWRENCE MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $36,800 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY CASA PROGRAM INC: $35,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetVAN GO INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTRINITY IN-HOME CARE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC: $10,350 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Douglas County Commun…Midcontinent Foundati…United Way of Kaw Val…Commerce Bancshares F…Kansas Health Foundat…Topeka Community Foun…Ethel & Raymond F Ric…Greater Kansas City C…Kriz Charitable Fund …The Shumaker Family F…Sunflower Foundation …The Rotary Club of La…
Douglas County Community FoundationKS51.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%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
    20report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to United Way of Douglas County Inc?

    Find your warmest path to United Way of Douglas County 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 32 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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