· Public charity
United Way of Greater Fall River Inc
United way of greater fall river (uwgfr) is a leader in the fight for equity and strives to create communities where everyone has the resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $902,123 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $973,148 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $71,025 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $311k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $532k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEOPLE INC (COMMUNITY SUPPORTS) | $120,000 |
| THOMAS CHEW BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $82,000 |
| SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS | $65,000 |
| THE ARC OF BRISTOL COUNTY | $60,000 |
| DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $53,500 |
| STEPPINGSTONE | $51,500 |
| GFR RE-CREATION | $50,382 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $50,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION | $45,000 |
| KIDS ACADEMY | $42,500 |
| COACHING 4 CHANGE | $40,000 |
| BALANCED LEARNING CENTER | $35,000 |
| SAMARITANS | $32,650 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $27,321 |
| CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS | $16,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $331k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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 +56% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- PIPEOPLE INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +56%
- FSFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $764k · revenue +17%
- TCTHOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC9× · 2017–2025 · $750k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- SSST STANISLAUS SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $15k
- FFFLY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -17% · 26% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATTLEBOROTAUNTON INCone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 65 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 PEOPLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds DIABETES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER FALL RIVER RE-CREATION COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF BRISTOL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Samaritans of Fall River New Bedford MA Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds STANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds NINTH STREET DAY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds BALANCED LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds COACHING FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS ASSOCIATION OF BRISTOL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER FALL RIVER COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds KATIE BROWN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FALL RIVER DEACONESS HOME ↗
- Who funds Childrens Advocacy Center of BC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL AGING & WELLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHFIRST FAMILY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GNOME INC ↗
- Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER TO RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds ARGOSY COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHIER COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds SAND LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
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: Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Fall River Women's Union · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Southcoast Hospitals Group Inc · United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc · Island Foundation Inc · Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc · The Rhode Island Community 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 Greater Fall River 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- People Incorporated — 85% of income from government
- Fall River Deaconess Home — 78% of income from government
- Community Connections Inc — 76% of income from government
- The Arc of Bristol County Inc — 55% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Citizens for Citizens Inc — 41% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc — 35% of income from government
- Steppingstone Inc — 33% of income from government
- Ywca of Southeastern Massachusetts Inc — 28% of income from government
- Child and Family Services Inc — 24% of income from government
- Stanley Street Treatment and Resources Inc — 23% of income from government
- Healthfirst Family Care Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc — 5% of income from government
- Gnome Inc — 4% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fall River Massachusetts Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Children's Museum of Greater Fall River Inc — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
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.