· Public charity
United Way of Greater St Joseph
The mission of the united way of greater st.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $1,883,739 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,072,376 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $188,637 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $649k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $374,128 |
| FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER | $275,290 |
| YWCA | $228,447 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI | $188,925 |
| NORTHWEST MISSOURI COMMUNITY SERVICES | $127,455 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $91,570 |
| THE CENTER | $86,366 |
| YMCA | $80,968 |
| PONY EXPRESS BOY SCOUTS | $73,637 |
| ST JOSEPH SAFETY AND HEALTH COUNCIL | $68,222 |
| LEGAL AID OF WESTERN MISSOURI | $64,584 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $53,979 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $38,716 |
| BARTLETT CENTER | $38,473 |
| BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS | $38,111 |
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 (FY17–24, $7.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +49% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 0 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
- FGFAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +70%
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ST JOSEPH8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +25%
- UCUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +53%
Funded once
- NHNORTHWEST HEALTH SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +48%
- NMNORTHWEST MISSOURI CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2018 · $27k · revenue +23%
- MEMIDLAND EMPIRE RESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +26%
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.
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
We, saint joseph regional medical center (sjrmc) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.sjrmc is a member of trinity health.
We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.
The st. louis jewish community center enriches lives, builds community, promotes inclusivity and creates meaningful jewish experiences.
The ymca mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy body, mind and spirit for all. the ymca emphasizes the value of honesty, respect, caring and responsibility.
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
To provide and advocate for the highest quality whole-person care to improve the health and quality of life in our communities.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Reduce the stigma and promote awareness surrounding mental health within the communities we serve, promote wellness, and provide individualized care with an integrated approach.
Educate the community on workers' rights
To inspire hope, improve lives and strengthen our community by providing mental health and related solutions for individuals and families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Children's Mercy Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 22 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 INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ST JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MISSOURI UNITED LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ST JOSEPH MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH SAFETY AND HEALTH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid of Western Missouri ↗
- Who funds BARTLETT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MISSIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIALTY INDUSTRIES OF ST JOSEPH INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MISSOURI CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND EMPIRE RESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC (MERIL) ↗
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: Heartland Regional Medical Center · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr · Harold P Dugdale Charitable Trust · International Paper Company Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 St Joseph 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.