· Public charity
United Way of East Mississippiinc
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community by giving, advocating, and volunteering
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $231,380 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $251,380 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,000 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 $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $94k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION | $99,481 |
| MULTI-COUNTY | $25,000 |
| CARE LODGE | $15,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $14,100 |
| BOY SCOUTS | $14,000 |
| LOVE'S KITCHEN | $13,500 |
| HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN | $12,000 |
| WESLEY HOUSE | $8,300 |
| FREE CLINIC OF MERIDIAN | $7,500 |
| OTHERS UNDER 5000 | $7,399 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER MS | $7,300 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $7,300 |
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 (FY18–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $662k · revenue +176%- CLCARE LODGE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $107k · revenue +11%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST MISSISSIPPI6× · 2018–2024 · $97k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- FBFEED BY FAITHone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue -30%
- CFCENTER FOR PREGNANCY CHOICES OF MDNgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +31%
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.
To provide housing and services to low, very low, and extremely low income families.
GMHC was organized to provide family centered, community oriented, and comprehensive health services to patients in Meridian and surrounding areas.
To provide free meals and temporary shelter for the needy of robeson county.
To provide quality, accessible, and cost effective primary health care services.
Provide free medical services for uninsured residents of shelby county, alabama.
Macon Volunteer Clinic (MVC)provides free primary medical and dental care, as well as medication assistance, to uninsured, working adult residents of Middle Georgia. All patients live at or below 200% of federal poverty level.
The Organization is a tax-exempt food distribution center committed to providing nutritionally balanced food for hungry people in 24 counties in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
The mercy house provides spiritual, social, and educational services to people in need. our purpose is to redirect lives through the services we provide.
To provide comprehensive services to victims of child abuse.
The organization provides family centered, community oriented and comprehensive health services to the people in mound bayou, ms and the surrounding area.
Provide housing and services as a licensed residential home for the aged.
To operate a head start and early head start program for children and families in mississippi.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Care Lodge Domestic Violence Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feed By Faith. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARE LODGE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LAUDERDALE OUTREACH & VOL EFFORT ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHOCTAW AREA COUNCIL NO 302 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF MERIDIAN INC ↗
- Who funds Multi-County Community Service Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds LAUDERDALE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds FEED BY FAITH ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PREGNANCY CHOICES OF MDN ↗
- Who funds THE MONTGOMERY INSTITUTE ↗
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: The Riley Foundation · William Robert Baird Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of East Mississippi · Mississippi Food Network Inc · The Paul and Sherry Broadhead Foundation · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · The Hardy Poindexter Graham Foundation · 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 Mississippiinc 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.