· Public charity
United Way of East Central Alabama Inc
A volunteer organization dedicated to developing and implementing programs and services which upgrade the quality of life and help meet the social and human needs of the community.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $303,376 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $380,791 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $77,415 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERFAITH MINISTRIES | $71,800 |
| UNITED WAY OF ALABAMA | $40,176 |
| CALHOUNCLEBURNE CHILDREN'S CENTER | $25,000 |
| YMCA | $24,000 |
| ST MICHAEL'S COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $24,000 |
| THE ARC OF CALHOUN COUNTY | $23,400 |
| COMMUNITY ENABLER DEVELOPER | $22,000 |
| THE LEARNING TREE | $18,425 |
| JACKSONVILLE MEALS ON WHEELS | $11,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS CALHOUN | $11,000 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS | $9,500 |
| 2ND CHANCE INC | $9,075 |
| TRI COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $7,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS RANDOLPH | $6,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $362k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- IMINTERFAITH MINISTRIES INC OF CALHOUN COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $453k · revenue +11%
- TLTHE LEARNING TREE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $194k · revenue +37%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMY - BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA AREA COMMANDone grant, 2017 · $23k
- ROREACHING OUT INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2017 · $6k
- RARA-LIN AND ASSOCIATES INCone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.
Social services
Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation
Support services for the mentally challenged of south talladega county in alabama.
To be the voice for children who have been victims of abuse and/or neglect. Our vision is to serve every child in the Cheaha Region by providing them with a caring and competent trained volunteer.
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
The center for community services empowers families to break the cycle of poverty through crisis assistance and employment readiness.
The mission of the united way of calhoun county is to help increase the organized capacity of people in calhoun county to care for one another.
Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.
We are committed to providing quality child care to children ages two through seven. our focus is on children from low-income backgrounds. we are also committed to serving children who have been placed in foster care and those identified…
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
The primary service that the cac provides is a safe, child-friendly location for interviewing of children and coordination of referral programs when an allegation of sexual abuse and/or severe physical abuse has occurred.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arc of Calhoun and Cleburne Counties Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Michaels Community Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 26 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 INTERFAITH MINISTRIES INC OF CALHOUN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING TREE INC ↗
- Who funds CALHOUN-CLEBURNE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ETOWAH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENABLER DEVELOPERS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CALHOUN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ARC OF CALHOUN AND CLEBURNE COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT BENEVOLENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAELS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LINKS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds 2ND CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAYS OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds TRI COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENT ↗
- Who funds GREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ANNISTON SOUP BOWL INC ↗
- Who funds ARC OF RANDOLPH COUNTY ↗
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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama · Berman Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Food Bank of Central Alabama · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 East Central Alabama 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.