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United Way of Lee County Inc

The mission of united way is to increase the organzied capacity of people to care for one another.

$76k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$11,592
Largest grant, FY2025
$27,911
Organizations funded a year
4 to 12
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$455k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations United Way of Lee County Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionReligionOther
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 arriving6$76k33%
FY20246$56k50%
FY20224$33k25%
FY202112$54k25%
FY202010$86k10%
FY201912$48k42%
FY20187$50k57%
FY20174$31kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$121kHousing & Shelter$91kYouth Development$73kEducation$44kPublic Safety & Disaster$37kRecreation & Sports$28kFood & Nutrition$18kHealth$15kOther$0

Top grantees

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

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Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($159k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget United Way of Lee County Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBrick Capital Community Development Corporation: $45,478 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetChristians United Outreach Center of Lee County: $39,329 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetFamily Promise of Lee County Inc: $33,169 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Central Carolina: $21,657 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCentral Carolina Community College Found: $20,606 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDunn United Ministerial Association Inc: $15,830 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHelping Hand Clinic Inc: $15,254 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetOutreach Mission Inc: $12,662 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetHaven in Lee County Inc: $11,621 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPartnership for Children & Families: $6,874 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCoalition for Families in Lee Count: $5,758 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSafe of Harnett County Inc: $4,625 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc IncNC17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Ruby and Ernest McSwain Worthy Lands · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Bca Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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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 6 grants totaling $75,992 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does United Way of Lee County Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Housing & Shelter (21%), Youth Development (17%).
Who are United Way of Lee County Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Brick Capital Community Development Corporation ($45k), Lee County -Wwcc- Even Start ($42k), Christians United Outreach Center of Lee County ($39k).
Does United Way of Lee County Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Lee County Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation.
Where is United Way of Lee County Inc based?
United Way of Lee County Inc is based in NC.

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 23 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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