· Public charity
United Way of McMinn and Meigs Counties
To build a stronger, caring community by uniting our resources and enhance the human services available in mcminn and meigs counties.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of UNITED WAY OF MCMINN AND MEIGS COUNTIES’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $484,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $498,883 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,883 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–50k6 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $342k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $131,100 |
| GOOD FAITH CLINIC | $56,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY CENTER | $53,400 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE REGION-MEIGS | $51,500 |
| THE HOPE CENTER | $50,000 |
| MCMINN COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD | $37,500 |
| MCMINN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $31,000 |
| MCMINN COUNTY DEPT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE | $25,000 |
| ETOWAH SENIOR CENTER | $15,000 |
| ETOWAH RESCUE SQUAD | $15,000 |
| GRACE & MERCY MINISTRIES | $11,000 |
| TENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- GFGOOD FAITH CLINIC9× · 2017–2025 · $521k · revenue +5% · 75% of their budget
- TCTRI-COUNTY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $518k · revenue +85%
- CCCOORDINATED CHARITIES OF ATHENS6× · 2017–2022 · $284k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- WAWOMEN AT THE WELLone grant, 2019 · $22k
- MMMEIG MINISTRIESone grant, 2024 · $14k
- TGTABLES GRACE FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2022 · $13k
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.
Provide services & meals to the elderly.
To provide food and other sustanance items to the people in need
Food pantry serving the needs of local residents.
To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical assistance and other immediate need to the thousands of needy and homeless people living in our area.
Prepare and deliver hot meals to the elderly and disabled 5 days a week.
To provide health care to uninsured and under insured individuals.
Providing a food pantry for the needy in the area.
Provide bags of groceries for in need families on a weekly basis.
Provide community support to citizens of mercer and surrounding counties. primarily provide meals and groceries to those in need.
Provide medical care to individuals that are 200% below the poverty level in a primary care setting. this will include examination, treatment and medication. individuals will be screened before being seen to be sure they meet financial…
To provide services to crawford county citizens
To provide free food to jobless, homeless and needy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Full Circle Medical Center for Women and the most unlike its peers is Meigs Decatur Friends of the Librar. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 33 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 GOOD FAITH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COORDINATED CHARITIES OF ATHENS ↗
- Who funds ETOWAH RESCUE SQUAD ↗
- Who funds FULL CIRCLE MEDICAL CENTER FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds GRACE AND MERCY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE OCOEE REGION ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands Ministry ↗
- Who funds MEIGS DECATUR FRIENDS OF THE LIBRAR ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Athens Federal Foundation · George R Johnson Family Foundation · 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 McMinn and Meigs Counties 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.