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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.

$381k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$72k
Largest
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.

Food & Nutrition$577kHuman Services$576kYouth Development$480kCrime & Legal$250kPhilanthropy$250kHealth$209kRecreation & Sports$157kEducation$137kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $303,376, the rows itemized in this filing. The $380,791 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $77,415 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$22,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERFAITH MINISTRIES$71,800
UNITED WAY OF ALABAMA$40,176
CALHOUNCLEBURNE CHILDREN'S CENTER$25,000
ST MICHAEL'S COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$24,000
YMCA$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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%YMCA: $24k → 19%YMCA: $24k → 19%COMMUNITY ENABLER DEVELOPER: $24k → 19%COMMUNITY ENABLER DEVELOPER: $22k → 19%COMMUNITY ENABLER DEVELOPER: $22k → 19%YMCA: $21k → 19%COMMUNITY ENABLER DEVELOPER: $21k → 19%YMCA: $21k → 19%COMMUNITY ENABLER DEVELOPER: $20k → 19%YMCA: $20k → 19%COMMUNITY ENABLER DEVELOPER: $20k → 19%YMCA: $20k → 19%COMMUNITY ENABLER DEVELOPER: $20k → 19%YMCA: $20k → 19%COMMUNITY ENABLER DEVELOPER: $20k → 19%AMERICAN RED CROSS CALHOUN: $16k → 19%YMCA: $11k → 19%AMERICAN RED CROSS CALHOUN: $10k → 19%AMERICAN RED CROSS CALHOUN: $5k → 19%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 22 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
4

Total granted

$2.8M
$40k

Still filing today

77%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IM
    INTERFAITH MINISTRIES INC OF CALHOUN COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $453k · revenue +11%
  • TL
    THE LEARNING TREE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $194k · revenue +37%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY - BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA AREA COMMAND
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
  • RO
    REACHING OUT INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • RA
    RA-LIN AND ASSOCIATES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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
Central Alabama Regional Child Advocacy Center

Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.

Crime & Legal
2
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
3
Child Advocacy Center of Cullman Inc

Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation

Human Services
4
The Arc of South Talladega County

Support services for the mentally challenged of south talladega county in alabama.

Human Services
5
Court Appointed Special Advocates

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.

Crime & Legal
6
The Child Advocacy Center of Anderson Co Tn

To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.

Human Services
7
Center for Community Services

The center for community services empowers families to break the cycle of poverty through crisis assistance and employment readiness.

Human Services
8
United Way of Calhoun County

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.

Philanthropy
9
Robertson County Child Advocacy Cen

Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.

Crime & Legal
10
Mcdonough Co Council for Child Dev

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…

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11
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
12
Child Advocacy Center Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arc of Calhoun and Cleburne Counties Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 26 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERFAITH MINISTRIES INC OF CALHOUN COUNTY: $453,361 · OtherINTERFAITH MINISTRIES INC OF CALHOUN COUNTYTHE LEARNING TREE INC: $193,812 · OtherTHE LEARNING TREE INCCALHOUN-CLEBURNE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $189,928 · OtherCALHOUN-CLEBURNE CHILDREN'S CENTER INCUNITED WAY OF ETOWAH COUNTY INC: $174,357 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ETOWAH COUNTY INCARC OF CALHOUN AND CLEBURNE COUNTIES INC: $157,029 · OtherARC OF CALHOUN AND CLEBURNE COUNTIES INCST MICHAELS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $139,404 · OtherST MICHAELS COMMUNITY SERVICES INCFAMILY LINKS INC: $131,655 · OtherFAMILY LINKS INCCHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $111,999 · OtherCHILDREN'S SERVICES INC2ND CHANCE INC: $110,881 · Other2ND CHANCE INCJACKSONVILLE MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $98,616 · Other+7 more: $106,192 · Other+7 moreCOMMUNITY ENABLER DEVELOPERS INC: $169,121 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ENAB…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CALHOUN COUNTY INC: $161,388 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CH…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $31,204 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $175,093 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GI…BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA: $97,500 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHER…PIEDMONT BENEVOLENCE CENTER: $140,574 · Food & NutritionANNISTON SOUP BOWL INC: $25,496 · Food & NutritionUNITED WAYS OF ALABAMA: $75,522 · PhilanthropyTRI COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENT: $60,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,867,234Human Services$361,713Youth Development$272,593Food & Nutrition$166,070Philanthropy$75,522Crime & Legal$60,500

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 budgetINTERFAITH MINISTRIES INC OF CALHOUN COUNTY: $453,361 over 8y, 10% of budgetTHE LEARNING TREE INC: $193,812 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCALHOUN-CLEBURNE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $189,928 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $175,093 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ETOWAH COUNTY INC: $174,357 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENABLER DEVELOPERS INC: $169,121 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CALHOUN COUNTY INC: $161,388 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetARC OF CALHOUN AND CLEBURNE COUNTIES INC: $157,029 over 8y, 17% of budgetPIEDMONT BENEVOLENCE CENTER: $140,574 over 7y, 25% of budgetST MICHAELS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $139,404 over 8y, 11% of budgetFAMILY LINKS INC: $131,655 over 3y, 17% of budgetCHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $111,999 over 5y, 5.2% of budget2ND CHANCE INC: $110,881 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA: $97,500 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetUNITED WAYS OF ALABAMA: $75,522 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTRI COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENT: $60,500 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetGREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $41,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $31,204 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANNISTON SOUP BOWL INC: $25,496 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetARC OF RANDOLPH COUNTY: $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Alabama Power Foundation IncAL32.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 East Central Alabama Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of East Central Alabama 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 26 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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