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United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc

UWLS mission is to improve the quality of life in Lake and Sumter counties by improving education, increasing financial stability and improving the health of our neighbors.

$192k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
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 2024.

Education$580kHealth$377kHuman Services$227kFood & Nutrition$189kCrime & Legal$114kHousing & Shelter$83kReligion$82kYouth Development$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $90,428, the rows itemized in this filing. The $192,481 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $102,053 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$8,571
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lov Extension Inc$10,714
Langley Health Services$8,571
Building Blocks Ministries$8,571
Stuckey Community Improvement Group$8,571
Victoria's Haven Ministries$8,571
Find Feed and Restore$8,571
Lifestream Behavorial Center$6,429
Faith Neighborhood Center$6,429
Love Groveland$6,429
Lake Sumter State College Foundation$6,429
E3 Family Solutions$6,000
Habitat for Humanity$5,143
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 (FY17–24, $289k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%Episcopal Childrens Services Inc: $12k → 14%Episcopal Childrens Services Inc: $11k → 14%South Lake YMCA: $10k → 13%Episcopal Childrens Services Inc: $10k → 14%Episcopal Childrens Services Inc: $10k → 14%Lov Extension Inc: $16k → 16%Lov Extension Inc: $15k → 16%Lovextension: $15k → 16%Children's Home Society of Florida: $10k → 13%Lov Extension Inc: $12k → 16%Lov Extension Inc: $11k → 16%Faith Neighborhood Center Inc: $17k → 10%Lov Extension Inc: $10k → 16%Lov Extension Inc: $7k → 16%Love Groveland: $11k → 10%Faith Neighborhood Center: $8k → 10%Love Groveland: $7k → 10%Love Groveland: $6k → 10%YMCA of Central Florida: $15k → 10%Sunrise ARC Inc: $13k → 10%New Vision for Independence Inc: $10k → 10%Sunrise ARC: $10k → 10%New Beginnings of Central Florida: $7k → 10%New Vision for Indepence: $7k → 10%Sunrise ARC: $6k → 10%Lake Cares Food Pantry: $15k → 10%Lake Cares Food Pantry: $9k → 10%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 28 repeat orgs$216k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
16

Total granted

$1.6M
$216k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+45%

Still filing today

82%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHealthReligionOther
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

  • EL
    EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $135k · revenue +78%
  • E3
    E 3 FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $114k · revenue +835%
  • PH
    PROJECT HEALTH INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $108k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $53k · revenue +49%
  • CF
    CENTRAL FLORIDA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -29%
  • BO
    B&GC of Lake & Sumter Counties
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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
Feeding Dreams Inc

The mission of Feeding Dreams to combat childhood hunger and malnutrition that affect one in five children in Florida. Through grants, fundraising efforts, and school partnerships, we delivered 2.5 million highly nutritious meals to…

Food & Nutrition
2
South County Food Pantry Inc

Hunger relief for the indigent. The South County Food Pantry provides food to families and individuals in the Venice, Nokomis, Laurel & Osprey, areas of FL. SCFP distributes to more than 400 family units per month.

Food & Nutrition
3
Lamp of Hope Ministry Inc

Lamp of Hope Ministries is a non profit organization committed to improving the well-being of families and individuals facing poverty homelessness domestic abuse low literacy military family service major illness and the aftermath of…

Human Services
4
Feeding South Florida Inc

Feeding south florida's mission is to end hunger in south florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through innovative programming and education.

Food & Nutrition
5
Central Florida Childrens Home

To provide homes for disadvantaged children.

Human Services
6
Hope Helps Inc

To prevent and reduce hunger and homelessness in central florida by equipping individuals and families to become self-sufficient through housing, outreach, prevention, and education.

Human Services
7
Central Florida Hope Center Inc

Unifying communities to make life-giving solutions accessible to everyday people.

Human Services
8
Florida Economic Consortium Inc

FEC focuses on financial literacy, job training, education, and access to essential services, helping families build a brighter future. Through workshops, seminars, one-on-one counseling, and partnerships with local organizations, we…

Community Improvement
9
Family Service of Lake County

Family service of lake county provides counseling, education, and support services to strenghten individuals and families in need to succeed in school, at work, in relationships, and within our community.

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10
West Florida Foster Care Services

Faith based organization providing foster care recruitment, training, licensing, and support to its foster parents and families throughout Hillsborough County and the surrounding areas.

Religion
11
Dream Center of Lakeland Inc

A christian community center that serves to positively impact the lives of "at-risk" children, youth, and families within lakeland's inner city, through programs and partnerships that develop the mind, body, and spirit.

Education
12
Central Florida Commission On Homelessness Inc

The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is Straight Forward Ministries Inc. 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

38 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. 38 of the 44 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
28/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $134,738 · EducationEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE C…EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF THE NATURE COAST INC: $97,286 · EducationEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF THE NA…TUTORS FOR KIDS INCORPORATED: $93,000 · EducationTUTORS FOR KIDS INCORPORATEDLAKE-SUMTER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $60,268 · EducationLAKE-SUMTER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATI…EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $57,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LAKE COU…LAKE TECHNICAL COLLEGE INC: $56,400 · EducationLAKE TECHNICAL COLLEGE INCSumter Schools Enhancement Foundation Inc: $42,700 · EducationSumter Schools Enhancement Foundat…Lifestream Behavioral Center Foundation Inc: $86,072 · OtherLifestream Behavioral Center Foun…LIVING MESSAGE CHURCH INC: $64,000 · OtherLIVING MESSAGE CHURCH INCNORTH LAKE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $61,250 · OtherNORTH LAKE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $52,750 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTR…VICTORIAS HAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $48,482 · OtherVICTORIAS HAVEN MINISTRIES INCCENTRAL FLORIDA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $35,719 · OtherCENTRAL FLORIDA COUNCIL BOY SCOUT…STRAIGHT FORWARD MINISTRIES INC: $26,250 · OtherB&GC of Lake & Sumter Counties: $20,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $18,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF BUSHNELL: $17,500 · OtherBuilding Blocks Ministries Inc: $25,357 · Other+8 more: $65,750 · Other+8 moreLOVEXTENSION INC: $85,482 · Human ServicesLOVEXTENSION INCFeed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center: $72,393 · Human ServicesFeed And Instruct The…EPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $42,750 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S …SUNRISEARC INC: $28,750 · Human ServicesSUNRISEARC INCCENTRAL FLORIDA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL FLORIDA YOUNG…Love Groveland Inc: $24,643 · Human ServicesLove Groveland IncNEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $24,300 · Human ServicesNEW VISION FOR INDEPE…Lake Cares Inc: $24,000 · Human ServicesLake Cares Inc+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HEALTH INC: $108,482 · HealthMILESTONE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $13,125 · HealthE 3 FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC: $114,375 · Crime & LegalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAKE-SUMTER FLORIDA INC: $50,714 · Housing & ShelterFind Feed & Restore Inc: $32,607 · Housing & ShelterSTUCKEY COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT GROUP INCORPORATED: $23,482 · Youth DevelopmentFORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSUMTER YOUTH CENTER INC: $8,234 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $6,400 · Youth Development
Education$541,392Other$521,130Human Services$337,318Health$121,607Crime & Legal$114,375Housing & Shelter$83,321Youth Development$48,116

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 budgetEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $134,738 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetE 3 FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC: $114,375 over 8y, 22% of budgetPROJECT HEALTH INC: $108,482 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF THE NATURE COAST INC: $97,286 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTUTORS FOR KIDS INCORPORATED: $93,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetLifestream Behavioral Center Foundation Inc: $86,072 over 7y, 11% of budgetLOVEXTENSION INC: $85,482 over 7y, 10% of budgetFeed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center: $72,393 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetLAKE-SUMTER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $60,268 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $57,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetLAKE TECHNICAL COLLEGE INC: $56,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $52,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAKE-SUMTER FLORIDA INC: $50,714 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $42,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSumter Schools Enhancement Foundation Inc: $42,700 over 4y, 12% of budgetCENTRAL FLORIDA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $35,719 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFind Feed & Restore Inc: $32,607 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSUNRISEARC INC: $28,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTRAIGHT FORWARD MINISTRIES INC: $26,250 over 2y, 17% of budgetBuilding Blocks Ministries Inc: $25,357 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCENTRAL FLORIDA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLove Groveland Inc: $24,643 over 3y, 37% of budgetNEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $24,300 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetLake Cares Inc: $24,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSTUCKEY COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT GROUP INCORPORATED: $23,482 over 3y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE CARE OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetMILESTONE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $13,125 over 2y, 60% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH LAKE COMMUNITY MINISTRIESINC: $6,750 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $6,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ORLANDO SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThrive Clermont Inc: $5,750 over 1y, 19% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Live Well Foundation …Mount Dora Community …Harper Family Charita…Charles B & Mary M Mc…Hunter Matthew & Mild…June Hirsch Jones Fou…Dorothy B C Steves Ch…Hans and Cay Jacobsen…Duke Energy FoundationSuncoast Credit Union…Martin G Roxy & Eliz …
Community Foundation of South Lake County IncFL34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc · Live Well Foundation of South Lake Inc · Mount Dora Community Trust · Harper Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Charles B & Mary M McLin Foundation · Hunter Matthew & Mildred Char Ta · June Hirsch Jones Foundation Inc Im · Dorothy B C Steves Char Ta · Hans and Cay Jacobsen Charitable Foundat · Duke Energy Foundation · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Martin G Roxy & Eliz C Fdn Ta

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 Lake and Sumter Counties Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • E 3 Family Solutions Inc: 99% of income from government
  • Episcopal Children's Services Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Project Health Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Community Health Centers Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida: 6% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Central Florida Council Boy Scouts of America Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lake Technical College Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity of Lake-Sumter Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Building Blocks Ministries Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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