How much does United Way of Mesa County Inc give?

United Way of Mesa County Inc reported 17 grants totaling $235,094 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Mesa County Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Health (21%), Housing & Shelter (11%).

Who are United Way of Mesa County Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Grand Valley Catholic Outreach Inc ($397k), St Mary's Hospital Foundation ($238k), Hilltop Health Services Corporation ($237k).

Does United Way of Mesa County Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Mesa County Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc, Rocky Mountain Health Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.

Where is United Way of Mesa County Inc based?

United Way of Mesa County Inc is based in CO.

United Way of Mesa County Inc

United Way of Mesa County Inc at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

United Way of Mesa County Inc

To meet human service needs

$235k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$36k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$969kHealth$648kHousing & Shelter$350kPublic Safety & Disaster$187kYouth Development$185kFood & Nutrition$161kEducation$158kCrime & Legal$77kOther$0

02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $40k
$10k–50k12 grants · $195k

$10,960

Median grant

States reached

$1.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$35,738
WESTERN SLOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN	$25,395
HILLTOP COMMUNITY RESOURCES	$24,563
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK	$17,087
INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTH CARE	$13,120
COUNSELING AND EDUCATION CENTER	$12,458
HARMONY ACRES EQUESTRIAN CENTER	$12,103
FOSTER ALUMNI MENTOR	$12,080
CLIFTON CHRISTIAN CHURCH	$10,960
HOPEWEST	$10,922
RIVERSIDE EDUCATIONAL CENTER	$10,261
CASA OF MESA COUNTY	$10,241
MUTUAL AID PARTNERS	$8,800
DISTRICT 51 FOUNDATION	$8,623
COLORADO YOUTH FOR CHANGE	$8,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $864k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.0M · 28 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.0M

$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%

-1%

Still filing today

89%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

GV
GRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $397k · revenue +56%
SM
ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $238k · revenue +44%
HH
HILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $237k · revenue +34%

Funded once

CW
COLORADO WEST REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH INC
one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -1%
CC
CHRIST CENTER
one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue -14%
TS
THE SALVATION ARMY
one grant, 2017 · $7k

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.

United Way of Mesa County Inc

To meet human service needs

Philanthropy

Clinica Colorado

To provide equitable primary health care and resources to those with limited access across colorado, especially to those who are uninsured.

Health

Grand Junction Economic Partnership

The mission of the grand junction economic partnership is to generate high quality economic development by attracting business and quality jobs to mesa county, colorado.

Community Improvement

Joseph Center

The Joseph Center was created to support families in the intersection of homelessness and parenting. Our mission is to provide hope, establish stability, encourage resourcefulness and confer a sense of belonging to the greater community.

Human Services

Mesa Valley Community School Inc

The school creates opportunity for students to pursue personalized learning plans supported by the chartering district and private resources and technology. the school provides a learning community that includes family members, tutors,…

Religion

Mesilla Valley Community of Hope

Mesilla valley community of hope is a daytime service center for homeless people. it provides programs and intensive case management. it operates several housing programs to meet the people's emergency, transitional and permanent housing…

Human Services

Colorado Wellness Center for Girls

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Samaritan Counseling Center

Centus is a top-tier provider of behavioral health services, education, and programs in metro Denver. We take pride in integrating every client's questions and concerns about their physical, behavioral, an spiritual self. We are champions…

Health

Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

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Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc

To protect and enhance agricultural land, wildlife habitat and scenic lands in western colorado to benefit the community at large, enrich lives, and provide opportunities for outdoor recreation for future generations.

Environment

Christian Care Mesa Iii

Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve

Housing & Shelter

Metro Caring

Metro caring works with our community to meet people's immediate need for nutritious food while building a movement to address the root causes of hunger. (continued on sch o)metro caring, in partnership with our community, understands that…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Valley Catholic Outreach Inc; the most unlike its peers is District 51 Foundation. 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

33 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. 33 of the 36 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/33

Grantees still filing

24/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,054,165Human Services$863,815Health$500,659Housing & Shelter$251,838Public Safety & Disaster$204,509Education$126,376Crime & Legal$76,843

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

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.

Western Colorado Community Foundation IncCO65× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Bacon Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · International Association of Lions 3602 · The Goodwin Foundation · St Mary's Hospital & Medical Center Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Av Hunter Trust Incorporated

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home