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United Way of Effingham Cnty Inc

Mission statement - to have an enduring impact in effingham county by connecting community resources with changing needs.

$149k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$31k
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 2025.

Human Services$782kCrime & Legal$264kFood & Nutrition$195kHealth$134kYouth Development$63kEducation$46kAnimals$30k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $126,603, the rows itemized in this filing. The $148,929 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,326 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
$8,678
Median grant
1
States reached
$664k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$30,629
SEXUAL ASSAULT & FAMILY EMERGENCY$20,420
CEFS MEALS ON WHEELS$15,315
SENIOR SERVICES OF EFFINGHAM CO$11,231
STOP WOMEN'S ABUSE NOW$10,210
EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERV$8,678
ONE HOPE UNITED$6,126
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF EAST CIL$6,126
ENDURING FREEDOM MINISTRIES$6,126
HEARTLAND HUMAN SERVICES$6,126
ILLINOIS DEER DONATION PROGRAM$5,616
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 (FY17–25, $474k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%ENDURING FREEDOM MINISTRIES: $8k → 9%STOP WOMEN'S ABUSE NOW: $15k → 15%ENDURING FREEDOM MINISTRIES: $7k → 9%STOP WOMEN'S ABUSE NOW: $15k → 15%ENDURING FREEDOM MINISTRIES: $6k → 9%STOP WOMEN'S ABUSE NOW: $15k → 15%STOP WOMEN'S ABUSE NOW: $15k → 15%STOP WOMEN'S ABUSE NOW: $13k → 15%STOP WOMEN'S ABUSE NOW: $13k → 15%STOP WOMEN'S ABUSE NOW: $10k → 15%STOP WOMEN'S ABUSE NOW: $10k → 15%STOP WOMEN'S ABUSE NOW: $7k → 15%CEFS GOLDEN CIRCLE NUTRITION PROGRA: $30k → 9%CEFS MEALS ON WHEELS: $25k → 9%CEFS MEALS ON WHEELS: $24k → 9%CEFS MEALS ON WHEELS: $23k → 9%CEFS MEALS ON WHEELS: $23k → 9%CEFS GOLDEN CIRCLE NUTRITION PROGRA: $23k → 9%CEFS MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 9%CEFS MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERV: $12k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERV: $12k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERV: $12k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERV: $12k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERV: $12k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERV: $12k → 9%CEFS MEALS ON WHEELS: $11k → 9%EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERV: $9k → 9%EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $9k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERV: $9k → 9%EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $8k → 9%EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $7k → 9%CEFS LITERACY PROGAM: $7k → 9%EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $6k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERV: $6k → 9%EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5k → 9%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $5k → 9%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.
$1.5M · 18 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
1

Total granted

$1.5M
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+49%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SA
    SEXUAL ASSAULT & FAMILY EMERGENCIES CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +39%
  • CE
    CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $196k · revenue +34%
  • SW
    Stopping Woman Abuse Now
    9× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +49%
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
Crisis Nursery of Effingham County

Crisis nursery of effingham county's mission is to prevent and protect children from trauma, abuse, and neglect by providing a free, 24-hour emergency shelter care program for children birth through six years of age.

Health
2
Illinois Institute for Children

Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care

Human Services
3
Central Alabama Regional Child Advocacy Center

Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.

Crime & Legal
4
Evangelical Child and Family Agency

Entity provides quality social services and compassionate care to abused, neglected, and dependent children, and improves the quality of life through adoption counseling, and intact family services.

Human Services
5
Casa of South Central Illinois

The trained volunteers of CASA of South Central Illinois will work with legal and child welfare professionals, educators, and service providers to advocate for the best interests of children that have experienced abuse and/or neglect that…

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6
Child Advocacy Center of Mchenry Co Inc

Provide Counselors in Child Abuse Situations

Crime & Legal
7
Talladega County Child Advocacy Center Inc

Interview facility for child abuse victims.

Human Services
8
Casa of Tipton County

Child Advocacy Services

Crime & Legal
9
Sierra County Child Abuse Council

Child abuse awareness and prevention

Crime & Legal
10
Champaign County Casa Inc

Advocate for abused and neglected children. recruiting, training, and monitoring of volunteers who advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children referred by the courts.

Civil Rights
11
Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area

Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area is dedicated to empowering individuals and families, promoting self sufficiency and building stronger communities through quality, accessible client centered services.

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12
Esther House of Stanly County Inc

Provide emergency shelter, food, clothing, and counseling to victims and their children of domestic violence and sexual assault. community education. 24 hour crisis hotline. court and legal advocacy.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Effingham County Fish Human Services; the most unlike its peers is Stopping Woman Abuse Now (Swan). 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

15 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. 15 of the 20 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SPRINGFIELD: $331,010 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SPRINGFIELDSEXUAL ASSAULT & FAMILY EMERGENCIES CENTER: $225,697 · OtherSEXUAL ASSAULT & FAMILY EMERGENCIES CENTEREFFINGHAM CITY COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $103,230 · OtherEFFINGHAM CITY COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGINGOne Hope United - Hudelson Region: $74,702 · OtherOne Hope United - Hudelson RegionNEW HOPE CHURCH: $39,546 · OtherSTRATEGIC TRAINING AND RESTORATIONNFP: $34,805 · Other+3 more: $46,253 · Other+3 moreCEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION: $195,764 · Human ServicesCEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATI…Stopping Woman Abuse Now (SWAN): $112,672 · Human ServicesStopping Woman Abuse Now (SWAN)EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERVICES: $95,500 · Human ServicesEFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERVICE…EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $44,420 · Human ServicesEFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERENDURING FREEDOM MINISTRIES INC: $20,716 · Human Services+1 more: $5,333 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND HUMAN SERVICES: $59,418 · HealthEFFINGHAM UNIT 40 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $39,255 · EducationMID-IL BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $38,996 · Youth DevelopmentEFFINGHAM COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE NFP: $24,829 · Public Safety & DisasterCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $21,864 · Crime & Legal
Other$855,243Human Services$474,405Health$59,418Education$39,255Youth Development$38,996Public Safety & Disaster$24,829Crime & Legal$21,864

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT & FAMILY EMERGENCIES CENTER: $225,697 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetCEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION: $195,764 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetStopping Woman Abuse Now (SWAN): $112,672 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetEFFINGHAM CITY COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $103,230 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetEFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERVICES: $95,500 over 9y, 13% of budgetOne Hope United - Hudelson Region: $74,702 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLAND HUMAN SERVICES: $59,418 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetEFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $44,420 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetEFFINGHAM UNIT 40 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $39,255 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetMID-IL BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $38,996 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $21,864 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetENDURING FREEDOM MINISTRIES INC: $20,716 over 3y, 14% of budgetCASA of Effingham County: $16,350 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $5,333 over 1y, 0.1% 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 SEXUAL ASSAULT & FAMILY EMERGENCIES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Stopping Woman Abuse Now (SWAN) ↗
  • Who funds EFFINGHAM CITY COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds One Hope United - Hudelson Region ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND HUMAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EFFINGHAM UNIT 40 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MID-IL BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
  • Who funds EFFINGHAM COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE NFP ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds ENDURING FREEDOM MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA of Effingham County ↗
  • Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗

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.

Southeastern Illinois…Virginia C Koboldt Ch…Midland Area Agency o…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Southeastern Illinois Community FoundationIL30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · Virginia C Koboldt Charitable Trust · Midland Area Agency on Aging · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Effingham Cnty Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Effingham Cnty Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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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    Find your warmest path to United Way of Effingham Cnty Inc 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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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