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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.

$973k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$120k
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 2025.

Health$2.5MYouth Development$1.4MHuman Services$1.4MEmployment$911kEducation$621kFood & Nutrition$405kPublic Safety & Disaster$285kRecreation & Sports$122kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 29 grants below total $902,123, the rows itemized in this filing. The $973,148 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $71,025 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 $10k8 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $311k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $532k
$16,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SE MA: $39k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SEMA: $35k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $35k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SE MA: $35k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $27k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SE MA: $20k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SE MA: $15k → 8%EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION: $8k → 7%BRISTOL ELDER SERVICES: $8k → 11%BRISTOL ELDER SERVICES: $8k → 11%BRISTOL ELDER SERVICES: $7k → 11%BRISTOL ELDER SERVICES: $6k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $37k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $35k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $8k → 11%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 43 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
17

Total granted

$7.7M
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+17%

Still filing today

79%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • PI
    PEOPLE INCORPORATED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +56%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $764k · revenue +17%
  • TC
    THOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $750k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • SS
    ST STANISLAUS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER MASSACHUSETTS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +24%
  • FF
    FLY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -17% · 26% of their budget
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
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. by uniting all segments of the community…

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2
Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.

Health
3
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
4
Community Counseling of Bristol County Inc

The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…

Health
5
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
6
Child Care of the Berkshires Inc

The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…

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7
Triangle Inc

Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.

—
8
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

—
9
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

—
10
Southeastern Massachusetts Home Health Aides Inc

Homecare services and home health aide services.

Human Services
11
Westbrook Health Services Inc

Empowering people to achieve their greatest potential, westbrook health services inc. is the industry leader in providing comprehensive care to individuals with meantal health, developmental, substance abuse and addiction challenges

Health
12
Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc

Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Sand Lake Baptist Church. 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

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/48
Grantees still filing
35/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC: $764,213 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FALL RIVER INCSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC: $694,024 · OtherSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS INCGREATER FALL RIVER RE-CREATION COMMITTEE: $356,870 · OtherGREATER FALL RIVER RE-CREATION COMMITTEETHE ARC OF BRISTOL COUNTY INC: $356,482 · OtherTHE ARC OF BRISTOL COUNTY INCSamaritans of Fall River New Bedford MA Inc: $321,114 · OtherSamaritans of Fall River New Bedford MA IncSTANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES INC: $276,398 · OtherSTANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES INCNINTH STREET DAY NURSERY INC: $196,465 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC: $177,614 · OtherTHE ARC OF GREATER FALL RIVER: $171,296 · Other+33 more: $726,834 · Other+33 moreDIABETES ASSOCIATION INC: $517,143 · HealthDIABETES ASSOCIA…STEPPINGSTONE INC: $431,357 · HealthSTEPPINGSTONE IN…BALANCED LEARNING CENTER: $129,467 · HealthBALANCED LEARNIN…+5 more: $97,270 · Health+5 morePEOPLE INCORPORATED: $1,022,467 · EmploymentPEOPLE INCORPO…THOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $750,162 · Youth DevelopmentTHOMAS CHE…Teach for America Inc: $240,000 · EducationCOACHING FOR CHANGE INC: $114,130 · EducationUASPIRE INC: $17,600 · EducationARGOSY COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $17,500 · Education+2 more: $17,500 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $278,632 · Human ServicesBRISTOL AGING & WELLNESS INC: $27,750 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHIER COMMUNITY INC: $15,183 · Human Services+3 more: $25,070 · Human ServicesCITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC: $183,203 · Community Improvement
Other$4,041,310Health$1,175,237Employment$1,022,467Youth Development$750,162Education$406,730Human Services$346,635Community Improvement$183,203

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEOPLE INCORPORATED: $1,022,467 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC: $764,213 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $750,162 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC: $694,024 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetDIABETES ASSOCIATION INC: $517,143 over 9y, 68% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE INC: $431,357 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER FALL RIVER RE-CREATION COMMITTEE: $356,870 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF BRISTOL COUNTY INC: $356,482 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSamaritans of Fall River New Bedford MA Inc: $321,114 over 9y, 44% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $278,632 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSTANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES INC: $276,398 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $240,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNINTH STREET DAY NURSERY INC: $196,465 over 8y, 15% of budgetCITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC: $183,203 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC: $177,614 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBALANCED LEARNING CENTER: $129,467 over 5y, 25% of budgetCOACHING FOR CHANGE INC: $114,130 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHEAST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $56,850 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetVETERANS ASSOCIATION OF BRISTOL COUNTY INC: $44,544 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetGREATER FALL RIVER COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $42,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetKATIE BROWN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC: $35,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetFALL RIVER DEACONESS HOME: $32,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBRISTOL AGING & WELLNESS INC: $27,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $23,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHEALTHFIRST FAMILY CARE CENTER INC: $19,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGNOME INC: $17,770 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetUASPIRE INC: $17,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARGOSY COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $17,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRIVER TO RECOVERY INC: $17,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHIER COMMUNITY INC: $15,183 over 2y, 22% of budgetSAND LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH: $15,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSOUTHEAST FAMILY SERVICES INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetON STAGE THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS INC: $11,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATTLEBOROTAUNTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $7,570 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe CORE Organization: $7,500 over 1y, 39% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 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 ARGOSY COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds RIVER TO RECOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHIER COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAND LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH ↗

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.

Southcoast Community …Bristol County Saving…Fall River Women's Un…Rockland Trust Charit…Southcoast Hospitals …United Way of Greater…Eastern Bank Foundati…Arbella Insurance Fou…First Citizens Charit…Island Foundation IncProject Bread-The Wal…The Rhode Island Comm…
Southcoast Community Foundation IncMA67× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Greater Fall River Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Greater Fall River Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 65 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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