Iowa · Public charity
United Way of East Central Iowa
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $61,310
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $303,217
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 68
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations United Way of East Central Iowa funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 35 | $3.2M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $3.3M | 3% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $3.4M | 5% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $3.4M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 64 | $5.2M | 31% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $5.7M | 4% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $5.6M | 14% |
| FY2018 | 68 | $6.1M | 18% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waypoint Services | $4,337,202 | 9 | 11% |
| Area Substance Abuse Council Inc | $3,401,859 | 9 | 5% |
| Foundation 2 Inc | $3,392,001 | 9 | 12% |
| Horizons a Family Service Alliance | $2,888,082 | 9 | 11% |
| Aging Services Inc | $2,876,812 | 7 | 20% |
| Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc | $2,835,483 | 9 | 1% |
| Young Parents Network | $1,779,224 | 9 | 45% |
| Jane Boyd Community House | $1,770,535 | 7 | 37% |
| The Arc of East Central Iowa | $1,370,638 | 9 | 5% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cedar Rapids & East Central Iowa | $1,303,023 | 9 | 25% |
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Where it is load-bearing
United Way of East Central Iowa supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 85 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · Mercy Medical Center · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · First Federal Credit Union Foundation · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund
How this is measured
About United Way of East Central Iowa
- How much does United Way of East Central Iowa give?
- United Way of East Central Iowa reported 37 itemized grants totaling $3,228,095, out of $3,555,310 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 68 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of East Central Iowa fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Health (23%), Public Safety & Disaster (12%).
- Who are United Way of East Central Iowa's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Waypoint Services ($4.3M), Area Substance Abuse Council Inc ($3.4M), Foundation 2 Inc ($3.4M).
- Does United Way of East Central Iowa fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of East Central Iowa?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, GreenState Credit Union.
- Where is United Way of East Central Iowa based?
- United Way of East Central Iowa is based in IA.
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