· Public charity
United Way of Lincoln County
The Mission of the United Way of Lincoln is to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $235,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $280,769 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,769 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $227k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lincoln County Coalition Against Domestic Violence | $30,000 |
| Lincoln County Family YMCA | $28,000 |
| Communities in Schools | $25,000 |
| Hospice and Palliative Care Lincoln County | $23,000 |
| Hesed House of Hope | $20,000 |
| Special Olympics | $17,000 |
| Kintegra | $15,000 |
| Community Friends Senior Services | $15,000 |
| Lincoln County Coalition Against Child Abuse | $15,000 |
| Sally's YMCA | $15,000 |
| Salem Industries | $14,000 |
| Piedmont Council BSA | $10,000 |
| A Place to Grow | $8,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $381k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE6× · 2020–2025 · $251k · revenue +12%
- LCLincoln County Coalition Against Domestic Violence6× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +136%
- LCLINCOLN COUNTY COALITION AGAINST CHILD ABUSE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $149k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- LCLincoln County Department of Social Servicesone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
The Abuse Prevention Council provides emergency, advocacy, counseling, education and specialized services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and homeless individuals and families.
To provide leadership and influence to engage the kansas city, missouri community as well as the surrounding communities in creating the best service delivery system to support and strengthen children, families and individuals, holding…
To provide counseling to individuals with mental illness and addiction problems.
Dedicated to ending the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in wake county, nc. interact is a private, nonprofit agency that saves lives, rebuilds lives, and secures safer futures for victims, survivors, and their families. the agency…
To help children and youth achieve safety, stability, and enduring family relationships. cedars founding and enduring priority is safety for children and youth who have experienced, or are vulnerable to, abuse, neglect and/or homelessness.
For 80 years, suncoast center, inc. has held true to its mission of "strengthening, protecting, and restoring lives for a healthy community" by providing a comprehensive range of evidence-based services that address emotional wellness,…
Founded in 1886, thompson child & family focus is called to strengthen children, families, and communitiesdelivering measurable outcomes through healing, teaching, worship, and play. for more than a century, thompson has transformed lives…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
To put Christian principles into practice through programs and services that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
The Gaston County Family YMCA is a charitable community service organization that includes men, women and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions. We are dedicated to building strong kids, strong families and strong…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lincoln County Coalition Against Child Abuse Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hesed House of Hope Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 15 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds Lincoln County Coalition Against Domestic Violence ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY COALITION AGAINST CHILD ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CHARLOTTE REGION ↗
- Who funds HESED HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds GASTON FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Gaston Skills Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Lincoln County Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 420 ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Lincoln 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.