How much did United Way of Merced County Inc grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of United Way of Merced County Inc’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

seekfoodaccessstudents

2020

covid relieffoodaccessstudents

2021

covid stabilization

2023

covid businessbusiness stabilization

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k3 grants · $23k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$4.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

Mariposa Community Foundation$10,000
Joe On The Go Cafe$7,500
Right Edge Fun & Fitness$7,500
JS Randhawa Inc$7,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$99k · 9 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$99k

$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+93%

Still filing today

44%

76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

CO
CASA of Merced County
2× · 2018–2021 · $15k · revenue +74%
DA
DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING SERVICE CENTER INC
2× · 2019–2020 · $13k · revenue +46%
MC
MERCED COUNTY FOOD BANK
2× · 2018–2020 · $10k · revenue +23%

Funded once

MT
Merced Theatre Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +146%
MC
Merced County Arts Councilgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +83%
GM
Growing Merced Foundation
one grant, 2021 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Mission Merced Incorporated

MISSION MERCED INCORPORATED: MISSION, VISION AND PURPOSE:OUR MISSION: Providing hope and serving homeless and needy people of Merced County.OUR VISION: Homeless and needy people being fed, housed, and transformed through the power ofJesus…

Youth Development

Mecosta County Council On Aging

The council/retired and senior volunteer program is a non-profit, non- political organization that coordinates programs, public and private, to promote and safeguard the indpendence and well-being of senior citizens in the state of…

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Merced County Sheriff's Department

Merced county sheriff's department community law enforcement office is a non-profit organized to assist the merced county sheriff's department in accomplishing its law enforcement mission, promoting public safety and serving the community…

Crime & Legal

Merrick Community Services

Merrick community services champions thriving communities by eliminating barriers and providing essential resources to promote stability, independence, economic and social justice.

Human Services

Merced County Humane Society

To save pets and foster them so they may be adopted, find safe and loving permanent homes for resuce animals.

Animals

Merced County Sheriffs Posse

Rescue and parades

—

Merced College Foundation

To assist and promote the educational services of merced community college.

Education

Challenged Family Resource Center

Provide services to mentally handicapped and disadvantaged residents of merced county.

—

Merced High School Quarterback Club

Provide financial support to mhs football

—

Ace Overcomers of Merced County

To provide mental health services to merced county and beyond.

Human Services

Operation Compassion of Mercer

Provide community support to citizens of mercer and surrounding counties. primarily provide meals and groceries to those in need.

Food & Nutrition

Mercer Friends

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Merced Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Marcom Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/36

the rest of the field

11%

85/793

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/24

Grantees still filing

21/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$160,500Arts & Culture$38,000Human Services$27,500Health$25,000Crime & Legal$18,000Youth Development$15,500Community Improvement$12,500

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.

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.

Community Foundation of Merced CountyCA20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Merced County · Stewart Family Foundation · Ccf Community Initiatives Fund · Dignity Health · Hattie Givens Testamentary Trust · The Hatedust Project Inc · Sutter Valley Hospitals · The California Endowment · Impactassetsinc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation United Way of Merced County Inc 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NAMI MERCED COUNTY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +51% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 412198536 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NAMI MERCED COUNTY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way of Merced County Inc?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Merced County Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

United Way of Merced County Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Merced County Inc?

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United Way of Merced County Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Merced County Inc?

More from the funding graph