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United Way of Florence County

To provide community leadership and resource development to positively impact the needs of our community by strengthening relationships, programs and services that produce measurable results and improve the quality of life.

$533k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$47k
Largest
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$1.6MYouth Development$1.5MHealth$1.4MCrime & Legal$583kPublic Safety & Disaster$351kEducation$297kFood & Nutrition$92kHousing & Shelter$3k
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 39 grants below total $470,350, the rows itemized in this filing. The $532,956 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $62,606 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 $10k24 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $436k
$2,304
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION IN FLORENCE COUNTY$47,450
MERCY MEDICINE$47,314
YOUTH MENTORS OF THE PEE DEE$43,542
PEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC & SEXUAL ASSAULT$42,354
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PEE DEE$41,678
LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES$33,321
PEE DEE SPEECH AND HEARING$31,667
FLORENCE AREA LITERACY COUNCIL$27,708
SALVATION ARMY$24,527
FLORENCE COUNTY DISABILITIES & SPECIAL NEEDS BOARD$23,070
CARE HOUSE OF THE PEE DEE$18,196
HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK$15,786
FLORENCE COUNTY CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS$15,758
CIRCLE PARK$12,389
FLORENCE FAMILY YMCA$11,033
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, $379k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%FOSTER CARE NETWORK: $5k → 20%FOSTER CARE NETWORK: $4k → 20%FOSTER CARE NETWORK: $4k → 20%FOSTER CARE NETWORK: $4k → 20%FOSTER CARE NETWORK: $4k → 20%FOSTER CARE NETWORK: $301 → 20%FOSTER CARE NETWORK: $203 → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $47k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $43k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $36k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $33k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $33k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $32k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $30k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $27k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $26k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $14k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $10k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $7k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $6k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $6k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $3k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $2k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $562 → 20%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 22 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
0

Total granted

$5.8M
$0

Still filing today

82%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PEE DEE AREA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $735k · revenue +8%
  • PD
    PEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $583k · revenue +119%
  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION IN FLORENCE COUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $522k · revenue +30%

Funded once

    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
    Sumter County Commission On Alcohol and Drug Abuse

    Empowering people in sumter county sc to live free from substance abuse through a continuum of high quality services.

    Health
    2
    South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

    Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

    Youth Development
    3
    Nancy K Perry Childrens Shelter

    Care of abused and neglected children.

    —
    4
    Children's Center

    Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.

    —
    5
    Florida Alliance of Children's Councils & Trusts Inc

    To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…

    —
    6
    Florida Council Against Sexual Violence Inc

    Sexual violence shatters lives, wounds communities and perpetuates injustice. the florida council against sexual violence leads, informs and inspires the people of florida to create safe and just communities.

    Health
    7
    The Child Advocacy Center Inc

    Our mission is to support child abuse investigations, provide access to critical services, and raise community awareness to prevent and reduce child abuse and neglect in southern missouri. see conintuation on schedule o.we envision a…

    Crime & Legal
    8
    Florida Community Health Centers Inc

    Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

    —
    9
    C a S a of Florence Lauderdale

    Our mission is to recruit, train and support volunteer advocates to represent the best interests of abused and neglected children in the courtroom and other settings, helping the child welfare system and the courts find safety and…

    Crime & Legal
    10
    Florida Electric Cooperatives Association Inc

    To effectively represent our members in state legislative and regulatory activities, and in federal legislative activities; to assist members statewide when disaster strikes; and to provide a self-supported service that our members desire.

    —
    11
    Compass of Carolina Inc

    Our mission is to provide compassionate direction to individuals and families in need through counseling, education and financial benefits management.

    Education
    12
    Family Development Center

    To provide a comprehensive therapeutic early childhood and strength-based family education programs, committed to the prevention of child abuse and neglect, so that children may grow and develop to their full potential.

    Human Services
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Care House of the Pee Dee Inc; the most unlike its peers is Florence Area Literacy Council. 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

    19 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. 19 of the 22 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.

    2
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    5
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    18/19
    Grantees still filing
    12/19
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    PEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $583,148 · OtherPEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULTYOUTH MENTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE PEE DEE: $573,572 · OtherYOUTH MENTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE PEE DEEPEE DEE HEARING CENTER: $411,989 · OtherPEE DEE HEARING CENTERFLORENCE COUNTY CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS: $341,858 · OtherFLORENCE COUNTY CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSSTHE SALVATION ARMY: $338,451 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYFLORENCE COUNTY DISABILITIES & SPECIAL NEEDS BOARD: $305,837 · OtherFLORENCE COUNTY DISABILITIES & SPECIAL NEEDS BOARDFamily YMCA of Greater Florence: $141,695 · Other+3 more: $100,806 · OtherSENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION IN FLORENCE COUNTY: $521,881 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS A…LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE: $355,850 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE MINIST…+1 more: $22,954 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PEE DEE AREA INC: $735,039 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS C…GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA: $81,939 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF E…+1 more: $18,983 · Youth DevelopmentMERCY MEDICAL FREE CLINICS: $544,278 · HealthMERCY MEDICAL…FLORENCE COUNTY COMMISSION ON ALCOH OL AND DRUG ABUSE: $140,319 · HealthFLORENCE COUN…FLORENCE AREA LITERACY COUNCIL: $296,621 · EducationFLORENCE …THE CARE HOUSE OF THE PEE DEE INC: $168,779 · EducationTHE CARE …HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $91,877 · Food & NutritionTHE NAOMI PROJECT INC: $39,957 · Housing & Shelter
    Other$2,797,356Human Services$900,685Youth Development$835,961Health$684,597Education$465,400Food & Nutrition$91,877Housing & Shelter$39,957

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

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PEE DEE AREA INC: $735,039 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetPEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $583,148 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetYOUTH MENTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE PEE DEE: $573,572 over 9y, 48% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL FREE CLINICS: $544,278 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION IN FLORENCE COUNTY: $521,881 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetPEE DEE HEARING CENTER: $411,989 over 9y, 15% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE: $355,850 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetFLORENCE AREA LITERACY COUNCIL: $296,621 over 9y, 39% of budgetTHE CARE HOUSE OF THE PEE DEE INC: $168,779 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetFamily YMCA of Greater Florence: $141,695 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetFLORENCE COUNTY COMMISSION ON ALCOH OL AND DRUG ABUSE: $140,319 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $91,877 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 552 PEE DEE AREA COUNCIL: $83,583 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA: $81,939 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NAOMI PROJECT INC: $39,957 over 5y, 13% of budgetFOSTER CARE CLOTHING CLOSET INC: $22,954 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $18,983 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCIVIL AIR PATROL INC: $8,763 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTENACIOUS GRACE MINISTRIES INC: $8,460 over 4y, 1.3% 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PEE DEE AREA INC ↗
    • Who funds PEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
    • Who funds YOUTH MENTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE PEE DEE ↗
    • Who funds MERCY MEDICAL FREE CLINICS ↗
    • Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION IN FLORENCE COUNTY ↗
    • Who funds PEE DEE HEARING CENTER ↗
    • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE ↗
    • Who funds FLORENCE AREA LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
    • Who funds THE CARE HOUSE OF THE PEE DEE INC ↗
    • Who funds Family YMCA of Greater Florence ↗
    • Who funds FLORENCE COUNTY COMMISSION ON ALCOH OL AND DRUG ABUSE ↗
    • Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
    • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 552 PEE DEE AREA COUNCIL ↗
    • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
    • Who funds THE NAOMI PROJECT INC ↗
    • Who funds FOSTER CARE CLOTHING CLOSET INC ↗
    • Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC ↗
    • Who funds CIVIL AIR PATROL INC ↗
    • Who funds TENACIOUS GRACE MINISTRIES 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.

    Eastern Carolina Community FoundationSC26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Eastern Carolina Community Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Hm and Pearl Kyle Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Florence County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Florence County. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      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.

      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 22 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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