· Public charity
United Way of Etowah County Inc
United way brings together people and resources and collaborates with over 27 local non-profit agencies to advance the common good in etowah county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $437k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANNA | $50,000 |
| FAMILY SUCCESS CENTER | $40,500 |
| ETOWHA BAPTIST MISSION CENTER | $38,000 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING | $37,000 |
| JAMES BARRIE CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $35,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $32,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ETOWAH COUNTY | $32,000 |
| COMMMUNITY CARES INC | $30,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS | $28,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $27,570 |
| ETOWAH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $26,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY SHELTER | $20,184 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN PLACEMENT | $20,000 |
| DARDEN REHABILITATION | $18,000 |
| GADSDEN COMMUNITY EDUCATION | $15,460 |
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 (FY17–24, $625k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GADSDEN8× · 2017–2024 · $401k · revenue +33% · 30% of their budget
- BBBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA8× · 2017–2024 · $371k · revenue +31% · 28% of their budget
- FSFAMILY SUCCESS CENTER OF ETOWAH COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $370k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- TPTHIRTEENTH PLACEone grant, 2017 · $22k
- DODIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM IN ALABAMA INCone grant, 2020 · $15k
- CICOMMUNITY IMPACTone grant, 2022 · $12k
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 enable and motivate all youth within a safe environment to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens according to judeo-christian principles.
Provide recreational activities, athletic programs, various educational and enrichment programs to members and other youth with an emphasis on the under privileged.
Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.
The committee administers programs for the elderly which include information outreach and case management.
Social services
Inspire and enable young people to reach potential.
To provide recruiting and camping services for young people.
The boys and girls club of southwest alabama actively works with local youth of all backgrounds to develop the qualities needed to become responsible citizens and future leaders in our community.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
The boy scouts provide a program for community organizations that offers effective character, citizenship and personal fitness training for youth. the organization endeavors to develop american citizens who are physically, mentally and…
To enable all young people to realize their full potential
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Success Center of Etowah County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Etowah Baptist Missions Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 30 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GADSDEN ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUCCESS CENTER OF ETOWAH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Area Noon Nutrition ↗
- Who funds Etowah Baptist Missions Center ↗
- Who funds The Council on Aging of Etowah Co ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of the Coosa Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds James M Barrie Center for Children ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds ETOWAH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DARDEN REHABILITATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF ETOWAH COU ↗
- Who funds UNITED ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALABAMA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SNELLGROVE CIVITAN CENTER ↗
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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama · William Thomas Dawson Family Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Etowah County Inc 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.