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United Way of Forsyth County Inc

United way of forsyth county is a catalyst for strengthening our community by identifying and addressing its most significant needs through alignment of resources and strategic partnerships to achieve measureable, lasting impact.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$326k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$11MHealth$3.1MHousing & Shelter$1.3MEducation$1.3MEmployment$764kCrime & Legal$639kReligion$492kCommunity Improvement$359kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 29 grants below total $2,449,593, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,990,891 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $541,298 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 $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $458k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $581k
$54,004
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWCA$325,937
FAMILY SERVICES INC$255,117
THE PARENTING PATH$202,755
FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT$198,414
THE SALVATION ARMY$195,929
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHWEST NC$154,104
WINSTON-SALEM URBAN LEAGUE$99,249
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST NC$97,304
CENTER FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN$85,026
CANCER SERVICES INC$77,157
YMCA OF NORTHWEST NC$71,417
EXPERIMENT IN SELF RELIANCE$58,611
CHILD ABUSE RESOURCE EDUCATION$55,215
CITY WITH DWELLINGS$54,128
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF FORSYTH$54,004
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $7.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $49k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF CHARL: $23k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $48k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF CHARL: $16k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $43k → 8%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $85k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $13k → 8%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $85k → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $84k → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $84k → 10%SPRINGWELL NETWORK INC: $74k → 15%SPRINGWELL NETWORK INC: $39k → 15%SPRINGWELL NETWORK INC: $28k → 15%SPRINGWELL NETWORK INC: $28k → 15%SPRINGWELL NETWORK INC: $24k → 15%FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT: $282k → 15%FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT: $272k → 15%FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT: $204k → 15%FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT: $202k → 15%FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT: $198k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES INC: $454k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES INC: $377k → 15%YMCA OF NORTHWEST NC: $347k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES INC: $286k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES INC: $270k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES INC: $255k → 15%YMCA OF NORTHWEST NC: $204k → 15%WINSTON-SALEM URBAN LEAGUE: $167k → 15%WINSTON-SALEM URBAN LEAGUE: $156k → 15%YMCA OF NORTHWEST NC: $128k → 15%WINSTON-SALEM URBAN LEAGUE: $116k → 15%YMCA OF NORTHWEST NC: $113k → 15%WINSTON-SALEM URBAN LEAGUE: $99k → 15%YMCA OF NORTHWEST NC: $71k → 15%WINSTON-SALEM URBAN LEAGUE: $63k → 15%WINSTONNET INC: $62k → 15%WINSTONNET INC: $61k → 15%WINSTONNET INC: $40k → 15%WINSTONNET INC: $40k → 15%WINSTONNET INC: $39k → 15%YWCA: $488k → 15%YWCA: $475k → 15%YWCA: $468k → 15%YWCA: $449k → 15%YWCA: $326k → 15%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.
$19M · 37 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
6

Total granted

$19M
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
-9%

Still filing today

76%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WINSTON-SALEM AND FORSYTH COUNTY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +45% · 36% of their budget
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +16%
  • EC
    EXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • SS
    SMART START OF FORSYTH COUNTY
    one grant, 2024 · $77k · revenue -3%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue +309%
  • BC
    Bethlehem Center Incorporated
    one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue -9%
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
Southlight Healthcare Inc

Southlight healthcare provides access to high-quality mental health and substance use treatment, fostering a resilient community by supporting individuals in their recovery.

Health
2
Thompson Child & Family Focus Inc

Founded in 1886, thompson child & family focus is called to strengthen children, families, and communitiesdelivering measurable outcomes through healing, teaching, worship, and play. for more than a century, thompson has transformed lives…

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3
Carolina Teen Center

Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…

Health
4
Community Alternatives Inc

To provide responsive, person-centered services to improve the quality of life of individuals with disabilities.

Employment
5
Onslow County Partnership for Children

When they have challenges, we connect all children and their families to programs and resources that provide opportunities and hope.

Education
6
The Family Violence Prevention Center Inc

Dedicated to ending the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in wake county, nc. interact is a private, nonprofit agency that saves lives, rebuilds lives, and secures safer futures for victims, survivors, and their families. the agency…

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7
North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law
Crime & Legal
8
Early Years Inc

Early years leads efforts to strengthen accessible and affordable quality early care and education by providing support for families, communities and the workforce. early years 's primary purpose is to provide services, research and…

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9
Dyslexia Network Forsyth County
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10
Center for Prevention Services

To promote health and resilience through progressive approaches that integrate evidence-based substance use prevention programming, harm reduction, and multifaceted systems of care.

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11
North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc

The north carolina partnership for children (ncpc) is the lead organization and backbone of the smart start network, setting statewide vision, policy, and funding priorities. while local partnerships translate the statewide vision into…

Education
12
Cornerstone Montgomery

Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Centers for Exceptional Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Liberty East Redevelopment Inc. 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

33 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. 33 of the 43 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WINSTON-SALEM AND FORSYTH COUNTY: $2,205,807 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WINST…FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,641,937 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES INCFINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT: $1,159,081 · Human ServicesFINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONTYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626): $864,624 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwe…Winston-Salem Urban League: $599,947 · Human ServicesWinston-Salem Urban LeagueALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $337,691 · Human Services+4 more: $627,075 · Human Services+4 moreTHE SALVATION ARMY: $1,666,583 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYEXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $1,066,279 · OtherEXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTIO…LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST NC: $583,620 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST NCExperiment In Self-Reliance Inc: $513,502 · OtherExperiment In Self-Reliance IncBOWMAN GRAY CHILD GUIDANCE: $454,381 · OtherBOWMAN GRAY CHILD GUIDANCEWinston-Salem State University: $432,816 · OtherWinston-Salem State UniversityTHE FELLOWSHIP HOME OF WINSTON-SALEM NORTH CAROLINA INC: $368,138 · OtherTHE FELLOWSHIP HOME OF WINSTON-SALEM N…GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA: $351,801 · OtherGRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USAC A R E dba The John 3 16 Center: $294,666 · OtherTHE ENRICHMENT CENTER AN AFFILIATED CHAPTER OF THE ARC: $223,808 · Other+8 more: $491,586 · Other+8 moreTHE CENTERS FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN INC: $646,347 · HealthTHE CENTERS F…INSIGHT HUMAN SERVICES INC: $577,747 · HealthINSIGHT HUMAN…THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN FORSYTH COUNTY INC: $454,364 · HealthTHE MENTAL HE…CANCER SERVICES INC: $376,325 · HealthCANCER SERVIC…COMMUNITY CARE CENTER FOR FORSYTH COUNTY: $271,831 · HealthCOMMUNITY CAR…WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $335,863 · EducationACTION4EQUITY: $305,425 · EducationIMPRINTS CARES: $268,522 · EducationSMART START OF FORSYTH COUNTY: $76,837 · Education+1 more: $7,786 · EducationHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC: $541,250 · Housing & ShelterCITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE: $245,924 · Housing & ShelterGoodwill Industries of Northwest North Carolina Inc: $763,824 · EmploymentTURN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $359,270 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,930 · Community Improvement
Human Services$7,436,162Other$6,447,180Health$2,326,614Education$994,433Housing & Shelter$787,174Employment$763,824Community Improvement$365,200

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 budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WINSTON-SALEM AND FORSYTH COUNTY: $2,205,807 over 5y, 36% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,641,937 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetFINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT: $1,159,081 over 5y, 17% of budgetEXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $1,066,279 over 5y, 12% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626): $864,624 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Northwest North Carolina Inc: $763,824 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTERS FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN INC: $646,347 over 5y, 16% of budgetWinston-Salem Urban League: $599,947 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetINSIGHT HUMAN SERVICES INC: $577,747 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC: $541,250 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetExperiment In Self-Reliance Inc: $513,502 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetTHE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN FORSYTH COUNTY INC: $454,364 over 5y, 49% of budgetCANCER SERVICES INC: $376,325 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetTHE FELLOWSHIP HOME OF WINSTON-SALEM NORTH CAROLINA INC: $368,138 over 5y, 46% of budgetTURN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $359,270 over 5y, 73% of budgetALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $337,691 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $335,863 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetACTION4EQUITY: $305,425 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetC A R E dba The John 3 16 Center: $294,666 over 5y, 18% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CENTER FOR FORSYTH COUNTY: $271,831 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetIMPRINTS CARES: $268,522 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE: $245,924 over 4y, 13% of budgetWinstonNet Inc: $241,992 over 5y, 24% of budgetTHE ENRICHMENT CENTER AN AFFILIATED CHAPTER OF THE ARC: $223,808 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetSPRINGWELL NETWORK INC: $193,443 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $153,137 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSMART START OF FORSYTH COUNTY: $76,837 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLEAD Girls of NC Inc: $66,920 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetCatholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte: $38,503 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $29,224 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBethlehem Center Incorporated: $17,954 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCROSBY SCHOLARS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $7,786 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLiberty East Redevelopment Inc: $5,930 over 1y, 5.5% 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.

The Winston-Salem Fou…Reynolds American Fou…Forsyth Memorial Hosp…The Cannon Foundation…Ta John W and Anna H …Shallow Ford Foundati…North Carolina Baptis…The Leon Levine Found…Z Smith Reynolds Foun…James G Hanes Memoria…The Kooken Family Fou…Twin City Development…
The Winston-Salem FoundationNC60.9× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · Shallow Ford Foundation Inc · North Carolina Baptist Hospital · The Leon Levine Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · James G Hanes Memorial Fund · The Kooken Family Foundation · Twin City Development 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 Forsyth County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Forsyth County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 43 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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