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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.

$281k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$320kHuman Services$255kHealth$219kCrime & Legal$149kEducation$145kHousing & Shelter$110kEmployment$87kYouth Development$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $235,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $280,769 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,769 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $227k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$465k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Lincoln County Family YMCA: $30k → 9%Lincoln County Family YMCA: $28k → 9%Lincoln County Family YMCA: $28k → 9%Lincoln County Family YMCA: $25k → 9%Lincoln County Family YMCA: $25k → 9%Hospice and Palliative Care Lincoln County: $23k → 9%Hospice and Palliative Care Lincoln County: $23k → 9%Hospice and Palliative Care Lincoln County: $20k → 9%Hospice and Palliative Care Lincoln County: $20k → 9%Lincoln County Family YMCA: $20k → 9%Hospice and Palliative Care Lincoln County: $15k → 9%Hospice and Palliative Care Lincoln County: $15k → 9%American Red Cross Lincoln: $7k → 9%American Red Cross Lincoln: $7k → 9%Sally's YMCA: $20k → 9%Sally's YMCA: $15k → 9%Sallys YMCA: $15k → 9%Sally's YMCA: $15k → 9%Sally's YMCA: $15k → 9%Sally's YMCA: $15k → 9%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 14 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
1

Total granted

$1.4M
$10k

Still filing today

86%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEmploymentReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $251k · revenue +12%
  • LC
    Lincoln County Coalition Against Domestic Violence
    6× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +136%
  • LC
    LINCOLN COUNTY COALITION AGAINST CHILD ABUSE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $149k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • LC
    Lincoln County Department of Social Services
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
Cleveland County Abuse Prevention Council Inc

The Abuse Prevention Council provides emergency, advocacy, counseling, education and specialized services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and homeless individuals and families.

Crime & Legal
2
Greater Kc Linc Inc

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…

Human Services
3
Phoenix Counseling Center

To provide counseling to individuals with mental illness and addiction problems.

Education
4
Cedars Youth Services Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
5
The Family Violence Prevention Center Inc

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…

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6
Suncoast Center Inc

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,…

Health
7
Hospice of Gaston County Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

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8
Thompson Child & Family Focus Inc

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…

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9
Lincoln County Medical Center Foundation Inc
Health
10
Rex Hospital Inc

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.

Health
11
Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health
12
Gulf Coast Teaching Family Servicesinc D/B/a Gulf Coast Social Services

To empower adults and children living in louisiana who have mental, physical, behavioral, and other challenges to improve the quality of their lives and to live as independently as possible in their communities by facilitating personal…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lincoln County Coalition Against Child Abuse Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $251,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTELincoln County Coalition Against Domestic Violence: $190,000 · Human ServicesLincoln County Coalition Against Domestic ViolenceHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CHARLOTTE REGION: $116,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CHARLOTTE REGIONHESED HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesHESED HOUSE OF HOPE INC+1 more: $14,000 · Human ServicesLINCOLN COUNTY COALITION AGAINST CHILD ABUSE INC: $149,000 · OtherLINCOLN COUNTY COALITION AGAINST CHILD AB…GASTON FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $102,500 · OtherGASTON FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INCCommunities in Schools: $72,000 · OtherCommunities in SchoolsSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC: $69,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INCPIEDMONT COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 420: $57,950 · OtherPIEDMONT COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERIC…LINCOLN COUNTY COMMUNITY FRIENDS CORPORATION: $55,000 · OtherLINCOLN COUNTY COMMUNITY FRIENDS CORPORAT…+1 more: $10,000 · OtherGaston Skills Incorporated: $87,171 · EmploymentCommunities in Schools of Lincoln County Inc: $72,808 · ReligionUNITED WAY OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $41,114 · Philanthropy
Human Services$681,000Other$515,450Employment$87,171Religion$72,808Philanthropy$41,114

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $251,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLincoln County Coalition Against Domestic Violence: $190,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetLINCOLN COUNTY COALITION AGAINST CHILD ABUSE INC: $149,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CHARLOTTE REGION: $116,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHESED HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $110,000 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetGASTON FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $102,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGaston Skills Incorporated: $87,171 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Lincoln County Inc: $72,808 over 3y, 13% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC: $69,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPIEDMONT COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 420: $57,950 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $41,114 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

Duke Energy FoundationTimken Foundation of …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Duke Energy FoundationNC13.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Lincoln County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Lincoln County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 15 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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