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United Way of Lee County Inc

The mission of the united way of lee county, inc. Is to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another. One of the ways that we do this in our community is by generating and applying the necessary resourses to meet the needs of the community, recognizing that meeting basic human needs should be the overriding…

$521k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Itemized grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2023
12%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2025
$439k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$42,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
Total assets, FY2025
$2.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations United Way of Lee County Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$439k26%
FY202317$549k12%
FY202116$435k0%
FY202020$515k5%
FY201921$562k5%
FY201821$567k57%
FY201722$608kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$837kHuman Services$681kYouth Development$509kPublic Safety & Disaster$348kFood & Nutrition$279kCrime & Legal$267kEducation$215kAnimals$31kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Auburn Day Care Centers Inc$34,0001n/a
Food Bank of East Alabama Inc$25,00010%
Lee County Literacy Coalition$25,000127%
Joyland Child Development Center$25,00018%

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.

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About United Way of Lee County Inc

How much does United Way of Lee County Inc give?
United Way of Lee County Inc reported 19 itemized grants totaling $439,100, out of $520,751 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does United Way of Lee County Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Human Services (21%), Youth Development (16%).
Who are United Way of Lee County Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Auburn Day Care Centers Inc ($34k), Food Bank of East Alabama Inc ($25k), Lee County Literacy Coalition ($25k).
Does United Way of Lee County Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is United Way of Lee County Inc based?
United Way of Lee County Inc is based in AL.

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 43 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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