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United Way of Franklin County

Our mission is to focus on the power of giving by promoting volunteerism and mobilizing financial resources to eliminate the countys compelling human service needs

$167k
Granted FY2020
11
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$29k
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, FY2017 to 2020.

Human Services$376kFood & Nutrition$216kPhilanthropy$194kYouth Development$77kHousing & Shelter$75kEducation$60kAnimals$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$13k
02FY2020 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k3 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $140k
$13,673
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Salvation Army$28,727
Various Organiza$22,682
Senior Citizens$18,355
Sunshine Center$17,059
Simon House$13,800
Soup Kitchen$13,673
The King Center$13,465
YMCA$12,300
Emergency Food P$9,279
Thornhill Learni$9,225
American Red Cro$7,650
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 (FY17–20, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Senior Citizens: $28k → 14%Senior Citizens: $27k → 14%Senior Citizens: $27k → 14%Senior Citizens: $18k → 14%BGCA: $13k → 14%BGCA: $13k → 14%BGCA: $6k → 14%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$983k · 12 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
1

Total granted

$983k
$47k

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • FC
    FRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $101k · revenue +16%
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $77k · revenue +24%
  • SH
    SIMON HOUSE INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $75k · revenue +158%

Funded once

  • VO
    Various Org
    one grant, 2017 · $47k
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
Franklin County Community Meals Program Inc

Working in partnership with community to alleviate hunger in franklin county.

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2
Jessamine Co Food Pantry

We provide food (free of charge) to our community neighbors (jessamine co. ky) who are in need.

Food & Nutrition
3
Community Ministries Inc Community Kitchen

Providing free lunches to the hungry, sheltering the homeless during inclement weather, and case management for those seeking financial assistance. services are offered to those in the paducah, kentucky area.

Religion
4
Fayette County Commission On Aging Incorporated

The fayette county commission on aging serves and represents those adults 60 years of age and older in fayette county. the emphasis is on improving the quality of life of those fayette county citizens, 60 and above, and providing the…

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5
The Gentry House Inc

The gentry house, inc. is an emergency transitional homeless shelter to help families with children in the region of murray and calloway county, ky. residents are given rent and utility assistance.

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6
Harrison County Council On Aging

Provide services & meals to the elderly.

Human Services
7
Anderson County Community Action Inc

The Anderson County Community Action Commission provides food, clothing, household foods, and essential assistance to low-income residents of Anderson County, Tennessee. The organization operates a community food pantry, clothing closet,…

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8
Gods Pantry of Pulaski County Inc

A group comprised of individuals, church groups, civic organizations, and city and county officials joining together their efforts to provide Pulaski County residents food in emergency situations.

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9
Coalition of Tracy Citizens to Assist the Homeless

The organization provides a transitional home for men to live in a safe environment while connecting them with the resources for substance abuse,mental and physical health. we assist them with legal matters and help themfind sustainable…

Human Services
10
Crawford County Community Christian Help Center

To provide services to crawford county citizens

Human Services
11
Eastern Kentucky Child Care Coalition Inc

To provide a child food program for childcare providers and nutrition program for the elderly

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12
Franklin County Children & Families Comm Unity Resource Board Association

To encourage development and full utilization of community resources to build and sustain a comprehensive mental health system of care for children and families in Franklin County, MO.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Frankfort Area Children's Council; the most unlike its peers is Emergency Community Food Pantry. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $162,650 · OtherSALVATION ARMYVarious Organiza: $147,408 · OtherVarious OrganizaYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FRANKFORT KENTUCKY INC: $86,531 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FRANKFORT KENTUCKY INCFRANKFORT AREA CHILDREN'S COUNCIL: $85,155 · OtherFRANKFORT AREA CHILDREN'S COUNCILGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INC: $76,711 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INCSIMON HOUSE INC: $75,382 · OtherSIMON HOUSE INCVarious Org: $46,803 · OtherVarious OrgAmer Red Cross: $40,549 · OtherAmer Red CrossFRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $101,261 · Human ServicesFRANKLIN COUNT…BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $31,781 · Human ServicesBLUE GRASS COM…COALITION OF COMMITTED CHRISTIANS INC: $67,693 · Food & NutritionCOALITION OF…Emergency Community Food Pantry: $47,542 · Food & NutritionEmergency Co…THORNHILL EDUCATION CENTER INC: $60,260 · Education
Other$721,189Human Services$133,042Food & Nutrition$115,235Education$60,260

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 budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FRANKFORT KENTUCKY INC: $86,531 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFRANKFORT AREA CHILDREN'S COUNCIL: $85,155 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INC: $76,711 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSIMON HOUSE INC: $75,382 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetCOALITION OF COMMITTED CHRISTIANS INC: $67,693 over 4y, 10% of budgetTHORNHILL EDUCATION CENTER INC: $60,260 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetEmergency Community Food Pantry: $47,542 over 4y, 14% of budgetBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $31,781 over 3y, 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.

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.

United Way of the Blu…Honorable Order of Ke…Blue Grass Community …Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of the Bluegrass IncKY20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · 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 Franklin County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Franklin County. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 13 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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