· Public charity
United Way of Forsyth County Inc
United way of forsyth county fights for the health, education, financial stability/basic needs/economic mobility of every person in our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $222k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $176k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGIA HIGHLANDS MEDICAL SERVICES | $123,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR HOPE & HEALIN | $53,400 |
| RAPE RESPONSE INC | $42,080 |
| BOY SCOUTS | $36,350 |
| MENTOR ME NORTH GEORGIA | $27,500 |
| BALD RIDGE LODGE | $27,238 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD CLINIC OF DAWSON INC | $24,000 |
| CASA OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC | $21,620 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $11,945 |
| OTHER - LESS THAN 5000 | $11,275 |
| FORSYTH COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL | $10,290 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $10,000 |
| JESSE'S HOUSE | $9,558 |
| NO ONE ALONE | $7,000 |
| DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION | $5,535 |
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 (FY20–24, $749k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +35% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
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, 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
- GHGEORGIA HIGHLANDS MEDICAL SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $561k · revenue +45%
- CCCHILDREN'S CENTER FOR HOPE & HEALING5× · 2020–2024 · $312k · revenue +28%
- UWUNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $292k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- LNLiteracy Network of North Georgiaone grant, 2020 · $38k · revenue -57% · 46% of their budget
- FCFORSYTH COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERSone grant, 2020 · $19k
- FCForsyth County Child Advocacy Centerone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue 0%
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.
Dougherty County CASA, Inc. supports children who have experienced abuse or neglect by providing specially trained community volunteers to advocate for their best interests -- promoting their safety, stability, and permanent connections to…
To strengthen the well-being and development of families and individuals through professional human services programs, including therapy, counseling, education, special assistance, and advocacy.
The Carroll County Child Advocacy Center exists to champion the needs of sexually, physically, and emotionally abused children in Carroll, Haralson and Heard counties through prevention, intervention and collaboration.
The Organization is a non-profit organization providing crisis intervention and the continuum of care to address the causes and effects of family violence.
To promote the health and happiness of children impacted by abuse. We are committed to building successful children by providing programs that ensure their safety, advocate on their behalf and respond to meet their needs.
The Georgia center for child advocacy's mission is to champion the needs of sexually and severely physically abused children through prevention, intervention, therapy, and collaboration.
The mission DeKalb County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)is to recruit, screen, train and supervise court-appointed volunteers who advocate for the best interests of children who are in the care of the DeKalb County Juvenile Court…
Southwest georgia children's alliance, inc. is a nonprofit corporation organized under the georgia nonprofit corporation act, having for its principal purpose is to be the prominent regional collaborative community resource for children…
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…
To provide and coordinate comprehensive intervention, stabilization, & advocacy & prevention in the best interests of abused, neglected & sexually abused children.
Central georgia casa provides high quality volunteer advocacy to child victims of abuse and neglect who have been adjudicated dependent by the juvenile court and placed in foster care. providing this high-quality volunteer advocacy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Place of Forsyth County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Georgia Extension 4-H Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 32 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 GEORGIA HIGHLANDS MEDICAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR HOPE & HEALING ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Mentor Me - North Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BALD RIDGE LODGE INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JESSES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC ↗
- Who funds The Place of Forsyth County Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CLINIC OF DAWSON COUN ↗
- Who funds RAPE RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds SISU OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Network of North Georgia ↗
- Who funds DAWSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA EXTENSION 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds N O AS ARK INC ↗
- Who funds HALL DAWSON CASA PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Forsyth County Child Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT GENERATION YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GEORGIA DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
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: North Georgia Community Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Benjamin F Brady Charitable Foundat · Jackson Emc Foundation Inc Attn Amy Rouse · Roy C Moore Foundation · Patterson Barclay Memorial Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Lanier Forsyth Rotary Club · Synchrony Foundation · Assurant Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · McKesson Foundation Inc
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 Forsyth 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.