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United Way of East-Central Texas

To support local united way agencies to provide needed services to community members.

$22k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
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 2024.

Human Services$129kFood & Nutrition$125kHousing & Shelter$48kEducation$25kYouth Development$23kCrime & Legal$23kArts & Culture$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $15,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $21,550 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,050 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.
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$58k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALESTINE$8,000
FIRST RESOURCE CENTER$7,500
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 (FY17–22, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Crisis Center of Anderson & Cherokee County: $16k → 17%Crisis Center of Anderson & Cherokee County: $12k → 17%Palestine Community Food Pantry: $8k → 19%Crisis Center of Anderson & Cherokee County: $10k → 17%CRISIS CENTER OF ANDERSON & CHEROKEE COUNTIES: $9k → 17%Crisis Center of Anderson & Cherokee County: $3k → 17%Gateway Community Partners: $2k → 17%And Co Sheltered Workshop: $2k → 17%Crisis Center of Anderson and Cherokee CO: $14k → 19%Palestine YMCA: $6k → 19%Palestine YMCA: $5k → 19%Palestine YMCA: $4k → 19%Palestine YMCA: $3k → 19%Palestine YMCA: $3k → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$366k · 12 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$366k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+130%

Still filing today

75%
50%

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 ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationRecreation & SportsCivil RightsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • CC
    CRISIS CENTER OF ANDERSON & CHEROKEE CO
    6× · 2017–2022 · $64k · revenue +25%
  • CC
    CHARITABLE CONSORTIUM INC DBA HOPE STATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $48k · revenue +152%
  • FR
    First Resource Center
    7× · 2018–2024 · $48k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • W
    WHC
    one grant, 2017 · $14k
  • PC
    PALESTINE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +137%
  • EV
    Elkhart Volunteer Fire Department
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
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
Anderson County Community Action Inc

The Anderson County Community Action Commission provides food, clothing, household foods, and essential assistance to low-income residents of Anderson County, Tennessee. The organization operates a community food pantry, clothing closet,…

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2
East Texas Sheltering Arms Coalition

End homelessness in East Texas, & Community Collaboration

Human Services
3
Youth and Family Crossroads

Transitional and Outreach services to homeless, care for families in crisis

Religion
4
Homeless Outreach Mitigation and Emergency Center

to reach functional zero homelessness in Hays County through outreach case management direct aid and emergency response while maintaining the dignity of the people we serve

Human Services
5
Jasons Center of Hope Inc

Provide assistance to residents of Kaufman County, Texas particularly focused in the Crandall area. We provide food, clothing, household items, and faith based counseling and intercessory prayer.

Human Services
6
Temporary Help in Emergency House

Emergency housing

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7
Homeless Coalition of Dallas

Provide food and clothing to homeless in Dallas and Carrolton area

Human Services
8
Emergency Christian Ministries Inc

A religious and community-based ministry for those who are homeless and in need.

Human Services
9
Walker County Coalition for the Homeless

Provide shelter and assistance to the homeless

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10
Kiamichi Valley Ministerial Alliance Inc

Provide emergency assistance to those in need of food, lodging and gasoline, and maintain food pantry.

Food & Nutrition
11
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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12
A T a P Community Development Cooperation

To provide help & resources

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Palestine Texas; the most unlike its peers is Elkhart Volunteer Fire Department. 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

14 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. 14 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALESTINE INC: $50,250 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF PALESTINE INCHenry Smith Families Inc (Multi Cultural): $22,000 · OtherHenry Smith Families Inc (Multi Cultural…Anderson County Veterans Service Association: $20,500 · OtherAnderson County Veterans Service Associa…Palestine Community Food Pantry: $19,500 · OtherPalestine Community Food PantryWHC: $14,000 · OtherWHCTHE TEXAS AREA FUND FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · OtherAnderson County Emergency Management: $5,028 · OtherElkhart Volunteer Fire Department: $7,000 · Other+2 more: $2,850 · OtherCRISIS CENTER OF ANDERSON & CHEROKEE CO: $64,385 · Human ServicesCRISIS CENTER OF ANDERSON …YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PALESTINE TEXAS: $19,750 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSO…PALESTINE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $8,000 · Human ServicesPALESTINE COMMUNITY FOOD P…GATEWAY COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesCHARITABLE CONSORTIUM INC DBA HOPE STATION: $47,500 · Housing & ShelterCHARITABLE CO…First Resource Center: $47,500 · Food & NutritionFirst Resourc…ICEE Success Foundation: $25,170 · EducationTEXAS YOUTH ADVOCATES: $22,875 · Recreation & SportsCASA OF TRINITY VALLEY INC: $22,500 · Civil Rights
Other$146,628Human Services$96,135Housing & Shelter$47,500Food & Nutrition$47,500Education$25,170Recreation & Sports$22,875Civil Rights$22,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCRISIS CENTER OF ANDERSON & CHEROKEE CO: $64,385 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF PALESTINE INC: $50,250 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCHARITABLE CONSORTIUM INC DBA HOPE STATION: $47,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetFirst Resource Center: $47,500 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetICEE Success Foundation: $25,170 over 6y, 11% of budgetTEXAS YOUTH ADVOCATES: $22,875 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetCASA OF TRINITY VALLEY INC: $22,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PALESTINE TEXAS: $19,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TEXAS AREA FUND FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGATEWAY COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN ON THE ROCK INC: $2,350 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

Ben and Maytee Fisch …The Gragg FoundationTll Temple FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Ben and Maytee Fisch FoundationTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · The Gragg Foundation · Tll Temple Foundation · 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 Texas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of East-Central Texas. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    How do I get to United Way of East-Central Texas?

    Find your warmest path to United Way of East-Central Texas 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 19 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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