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United Way of Marion Countyinc

united Way of Marion County improves the lives of individuals and families, building a strong community by uniting people and organizations to create measurable results and a lasting impact.

$870k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$94k
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.

Public Safety & Disaster$7.3MHousing & Shelter$7.3MHuman Services$2.0MYouth Development$1.0MEducation$948kFood & Nutrition$697kCrime & Legal$570kHealth$526kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $565,952, the rows itemized in this filing. The $869,915 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $303,963 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $237k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $321k
$37,679
Median grant
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States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Marion Senior Services$94,156
ARNETTE HOUSE$88,211
Kimberly's Center for Child Protection$70,952
Salvation Army$67,734
Marion County Literacy Council$44,036
Boys & Girls Club$41,361
Episcopal Children's Services$37,679
Heart of Florida Health Center$30,895
Blessed Trinity Catholic Church 3016293 3016293$27,595
Shepherd's Lighthouse$22,937
Early Learning Coalition$17,855
Florida Center for the Blind$14,284
The Pearl Project$8,257
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $954k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%EPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $58k → 19%EPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $57k → 19%EPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $21k → 19%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $21k → 19%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $10k → 19%MARION COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 16%ARNETTE HOUSE: $100k → 16%ARNETTE HOUSE: $99k → 16%ARNETTE HOUSE: $99k → 16%ARNETTE HOUSE: $99k → 16%ARNETTE HOUSE: $98k → 16%FIFTH CIRCUIT PUBLIC GUARDIAN CORP: $30k → 16%FIFTH CIRCUIT PUBLIC GUARDIAN CORP: $30k → 16%FIFTH CIRCUIT PUBLIC GUARDIAN CORP: $25k → 16%FIFTH CIRCUIT PUBLIC GUARDIAN CORP: $25k → 16%THE PEARL PROJECT: $10k → 16%THE PEARL PROJECT: $10k → 16%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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.3M · 28 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
13

Total granted

$7.3M
$14M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
0%

Still filing today

79%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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 MARION COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $752k · revenue +48%
  • AH
    ARNETTE HOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $665k · revenue +83%
  • MS
    MARION SENIOR SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $623k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $7.2M
  • CE
    COVID EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE
    one grant, 2022 · $6.3M
  • TC
    THE CENTERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -19%
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
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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2
Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc

The purpose of the organization is to transform the lives of homeless men, women, and children by providing crucial services to end their crisis of homelessness.

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3
Christian Care Center Inc

Transformed lives leading to stronger families and real life in Christ

Human Services
4
Central Florida Community Action Agency Inc

To promote economic mobility by helping people living in poverty achieve self-sufficiency.

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5
Homeless Services Network of Central Florida Inc

The homeless services network of central florida is the lead agency for the hud continuum of care supportive housing program, shelter, and care funding for osceola, seminole, and orange counties including the city of orlando. it…

Human Services
6
Child Advocacy Center Inc

A comprehensive, child-friendly facility where professionals from law enforcement, medical, child protection and therapeutic services collaborate to meet the individual needs of child victims and break the cycle of abuse.

Crime & Legal
7
Victim Service Center of Central Florida Inc

To provide individualized services and resources to victims of sexual assault, violent crime, and traumatic circumstances, through crisis response, advocacy, therapy, and awareness.

Crime & Legal
8
Shelter Providers of Orlando Inc

Homeaid's mission is to help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness buld new lives through construction, community engagement and education.

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9
Project Hope of Marion County Inc

To establish a comprehensive plan for homeless families in marion county by providing permanent supportive housing as well as affordable housing through programs that encourage self-sufficiency.

Human Services
10
Marion County Child Advocacy Center

The goal of the Marion County Child Advocacy Center is to provide a safe place for children who are victims of sexual and physical abuse to have their stories clearly heard and begin the healing process. The Marion County Child Advocacy…

Crime & Legal
11
Turning Point of Central Florida Inc

The organization was formed in 1996 to provide a variety of effective treatment services to individuals and families who are affected by mental health, substance abuse disorders and co-occuring disorders

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12
Tri-County Human Services Inc

Tri-county human services shall endeavor to provide an array of highquality human services consistent with the needs of the community.services shall be provided in a cost effective, ethical, andprofessional manner and shall focus on…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marion County Homeless Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wear Gloves 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

34 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. 34 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/34
Grantees still filing
21/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $7,179,575 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOVID EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE: $6,315,208 · OtherCOVID EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCEMARION SENIOR SERVICES INC: $623,360 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $621,045 · Other+16 more: $1,170,194 · Other+16 moreARNETTE HOUSE INC: $664,629 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $229,427 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $167,138 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $146,884 · Human ServicesFIFTH CIRCUIT PUBLIC GUARDIAN CORPORATION: $110,549 · Human Services+3 more: $57,607 · Human ServicesCreative Services Inc: $589,313 · Crime & LegalMarion County Children's Avocacy Center Inc: $538,423 · Crime & LegalSHEPHERD'S LIGHTHOUSE INC: $146,748 · Crime & LegalEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MARION COUNTY INC: $752,344 · EducationMARION COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $196,108 · EducationUNITED HANDS: $70,326 · EducationHEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC: $694,286 · Philanthropy+2 more: $30,988 · PhilanthropyPROJECT LIFT INC: $524,222 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY OF GRATITUDE INC: $69,397 · Youth DevelopmentNAMI MARION COUNTY INC: $20,000 · HealthEducation for Life Inc: $5,196 · Health
Other$15,909,382Human Services$1,376,234Crime & Legal$1,274,484Education$1,018,778Philanthropy$725,274Youth Development$593,619Health$25,196

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 budgetEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MARION COUNTY INC: $752,344 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetHEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC: $694,286 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetARNETTE HOUSE INC: $664,629 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetMARION SENIOR SERVICES INC: $623,360 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCreative Services Inc: $589,313 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetMarion County Children's Avocacy Center Inc: $538,423 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetPROJECT LIFT INC: $524,222 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetThe Boys and Girls Club of Marion County Inc: $502,825 over 8y, 17% of budgetEPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $229,427 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARION COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $196,108 over 7y, 24% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $167,138 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMarion County Homeless Council Inc: $157,213 over 4y, 18% of budgetINTERFAITH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $146,884 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSHEPHERD'S LIGHTHOUSE INC: $146,748 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetFIFTH CIRCUIT PUBLIC GUARDIAN CORPORATION: $110,549 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetFLORIDA CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $70,796 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED HANDS: $70,326 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF GRATITUDE INC: $69,397 over 6y, 13% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ORLANDO SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $58,149 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Marion County: $50,560 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Pearl Project Inc: $37,257 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES OF MID-FLORIDA INC: $31,504 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHIS COMPASSION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUTREACH ALLIANCE SUPPORTING NEURODEVELOPMENT INC: $20,988 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNAMI MARION COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetOPEN ARMS VILLAGE INC: $12,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCENTRAL FLORIDA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $10,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE TO HOPE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGATEWAY TO HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetMarion Therapeutic Riding Association Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetANNIE W JOHNSON SENIOR & FAMILY SERVICE CENTER INC: $5,588 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWear Gloves Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEducation for Life Inc: $5,196 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

The Community Foundat…Palmer Foundation IncEnchanted BackpackClay Electric Foundat…The Colen Foundation …Munroe Regional Healt…Browder Family Founda…Lutheran Services Flo…Td Charitable Foundat…Duke Energy FoundationPublix Super Markets …Charities Aid Foundat…
The Community Foundation for Ocala Marion County IncFL45.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Ocala Marion County Inc · Palmer Foundation Inc · Enchanted Backpack · Clay Electric Foundation Inc · The Colen Foundation Inc · Munroe Regional Health System Inc · Browder Family Foundation · Lutheran Services Florida Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Marion Countyinc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Marion Countyinc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Episcopal Children's Services Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Creative Services Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Arnette House Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida: 6% of income from government
  • The Pearl Project Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Marion Therapeutic Riding Association Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Heart of Florida United Way Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wear Gloves Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Marion Senior Services Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 41 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $758k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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