· Public charity
United Way of Knox County Indiana Inc
The mission of the organization is to develop teamwork among the social service agencies serving knox county and their constituencies in the interest of the financial support of such agencies, and the effective planning and execution of the social service programs of this community.
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 29 grants below total $416,666 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $550,525 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $133,859 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 $10k15 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLN TRAIL COLLEGE | $71,107 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CRAWFORD COUNT | $50,000 |
| LCAEC | $35,000 |
| THE GUARDIAN CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| NORTH KNOX SOCIAL MINISTRIES | $16,500 |
| IMPROVING EDUCATION | $15,210 |
| YMCA | $14,000 |
| BETTYE J MCCORMICK SENIOR CENTER | $14,000 |
| ROBINSON FOOD PANTY | $12,500 |
| VINCENNES COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORP | $12,149 |
| VINCENNES FOOD PANTRY | $10,600 |
| NORTH KNOX SCHOOL CORP | $10,450 |
| SWAN | $10,000 |
| ROBINSON NOW | $10,000 |
| SOUTH KNOX SCHOOL CORP | $9,510 |
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, $585k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% 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.
44 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% 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
- LTLincoln Trail College Foundation5× · 2019–2024 · $268k · revenue +57%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF VINCENNES INDIANA8× · 2017–2024 · $226k · revenue +88%
- LCLawrence Crawford Association for Exceptional Citizens6× · 2017–2024 · $222k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- CCCrawford County Rec Centerone grant, 2018 · $150k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
- LTLincoln Trail Foundationone grant, 2017 · $42k
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 provide information and services to maintain and improve the quality of life for senior citizens throughout Knox County, Illinois
The organization provides resources and assistance through unique programs for persons needing social services in the Boone County, Missouri area. VAC also connects local agencies and volunteers with opportunities to respond to serious…
Voluntary Action Center, which serves Bureau, Dekalb, Kendall, Lasalle and Putnam counties provides high quality services that address the basic transportation and nutrition needs of its communities.
Providing assistance to victims of domestic violence
Seniors Assistance Center provides necessary services to senior citizens of unincorporated Norwood Park Township, and the villages of Norridge and Harwood Heights. These services include home delivered meals, information and assistance,…
To provide for the development, coordination, organization and promotion of volunteerism in the public and private sector of Lincoln and Lancaster County, Nebraska.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
Provides community service(family counseling & day care) to the inner of louisville.
To serve the indigent.
Provide resources for low income clients.
To prevent child abuse in Illinois through education, awareness, advocacy, and community support
To support not for profit organizations in innovation, excellence and leadership in their communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs in Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is Palestine Community Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 75 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 Lincoln Trail College Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF VINCENNES INDIANA ↗
- Who funds Lawrence Crawford Association for Exceptional Citizens ↗
- Who funds THE GUARDIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROBINSON AREA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds VINCENNES UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH KNOX SOCIAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Stopping Woman Abuse Now (SWAN) ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT COUNSELING & INFORMATION SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Children and Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE JEANS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HIS HANDS DISASTER RESPONSE ↗
- Who funds LIFE AFTER METH INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds IMPROVING EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds VINCENNES COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY IN ↗
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: Community Foundation Alliance Inc · The McCormick Family Foundationinc · Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Knox County Indiana 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 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.