· Public charity
United Way of Imperial County
The United Way of Imperial County raises money in Imperial County from People in the work place, businesses, and individuals to help support agencies that serve the community.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood House | $59,619 |
| Womanhaven | $57,167 |
| Salvation Army | $34,714 |
| Sure Helpline Crisis Center | $27,923 |
| Campesinos Unidos | $27,079 |
| Cancer Resource of the Desert | $26,366 |
| Calexico United M C | $7,716 |
| Catholic Charities | $6,591 |
| CC Day Center | $6,163 |
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, $241k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 21%. 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 +88% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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; $14k 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
WOMANHAVEN A CENTER FOR FAMILY SOLUTIONS5× · 2017–2025 · $233k · revenue +88%- IVIMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK2× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +127%
- IVIMPERIAL VALLEY BLIND CENTER2× · 2017–2018 · $18k · revenue ×34 · 71% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $90k
- GMGuadalupe Mens Shelterone grant, 2022 · $22k
- HOHouse of Hope Womens Shelterone grant, 2024 · $18k
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.
IBHS is dedicated to helping the community achieve and maintain general good health, education and welfare through commitment in providing excellent service in the areas of physical health care, substance abuse treatment, mental health…
Serve the least, the last and lost in the Inland Empire
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…
We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. we advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.
Lgbtq social services
IVWF partners with local non-profit organizations to address pressing health issues for Imperial County's most vulnerable populations. IVWF provides funding for efforts addressing healthy eating, active living: community prevention linked…
The mission of the Candela Group is to bring stability and an improved quality of life to our clients and their loved ones affected by mental illness by uniting them with public and private mental health services Our lived experience as…
Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…
Child abuse awareness and prevention
Comprehensive Family Service System.
It is our mission to bring Conejo Valley Latino voices into important community conversations regarding our schools, city and recreation opportunities. We organize and advocate for those not yet ready to speak on their own behalf and seek…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood House of Calexico and the most unlike its peers is Imperial Valley Blind Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 26 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 WOMANHAVEN A CENTER FOR FAMILY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds CAMPESINOS UNIDOS INC ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL VALLEY BLIND CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHARLEE Family Care Inc ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL COUNTY CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House of Calexico ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization United Way of Imperial County 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.
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