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United Way of Northwest Florida Inc

To solve our community's toughest challenges by fostering and uniting people, resources, programs, and ideas.

$540k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
35
Itemized grants FY2025
26
Organizations funded FY2024
15%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$482k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$9,647
Largest grant, FY2025
$56,427
Organizations funded a year
18 to 47
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$2.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations United Way of Northwest Florida Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterHealthCrime & LegalEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving35$482k20%
FY202426$279k15%
FY202327$418k7%
FY202226$415k12%
FY202118$521k0%
FY202039$5.0M28%
FY201947$1.4M49%
FY201838$832k21%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.0MCrime & Legal$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.1MHealth$983kYouth Development$645kEducation$500kReligion$189kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 91 grantees
All grantees of United Way of Northwest Florida Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gulf Coast Children's Advocacy Center Inc$1,376,676914%
Rebuild Bay County Inc Fka Bay County Long Term Disaster Recov$1,202,030679%
Homeless and Hunger Coalition of Northwest Florida Inc$921,0001n/a
Family Service Agency of Bay County Inc$805,045937%
A Hand Up International Inc Global Outreach Ministries$608,425147%
North Florida Inland Long Term Recovery Inc$354,380326%
Bay County Council on Aging Inc$288,65192%
Citizens of Gulf County Recovery Team Inc$285,009273%
Girls Incorporated of Bay County$259,252911%
Boys & Girls Club of Bay County Inc$252,37894%
Early Learning Coalition of Northwest Florida Inc$217,78290%
Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida$181,56791%
St Andrew Bay Center Inc$177,83193%
Covenant Hospice Inc$158,21480%
Feeding the Gulf Coast$147,31390%
Life Management Center of Northwest Florida Inc$133,63880%
Early Education & Care Inc$131,78280%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$131,14470%
Gulf Beach Baptist Church$127,0751n/a
Anchorage Children's Home of Bay County Inc$116,06291%
Basic Nwfl Inc$113,75181%
The Salvation Army$111,8207n/a
Amikids Inc$105,2984n/a
Innovative Charities of Northwest Florida Inc$104,82758%
Mental Health America of Bay County Inc$102,185469%
Chemical Addictions Recovery Effort Inc$98,79050%
Habitat for Humanity of Bay County Inc$81,86842%
America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc$77,98560%
The Children's Home Society of Florida$68,07360%
Still Waters Ministries Inc$67,49125%
Washington County Long-Term Recovery Team$57,8011n/a
Bay Education Foundation Inc$51,72652%
The United Hands Project Inc$50,3401n/a
Gulf Coast State College Foundation Inc$50,08922%
Lead Coalition of Bay County$49,893515%
North Florida Office of Public Guardian Inc$49,44841%
United Way of Northwest Florida Inc$45,21421%
Bay Franklin Gulf Healthy Start Coalition Inc$44,6963n/a
Alignment Bay County Inc$40,000334%
Panama City Rescue Mission Inc$36,64522%
Second Chance of Northwest Florida Inc$36,49447%
Junior League of Panama City Inc$34,69549%
Friends of After School Assistance$30,0001n/a
Florida State University Alumni Association$30,00011%
Chipola Family Ministries$27,0001n/a
Arc of Washington-Holmes Counties$26,62040%
Avicenna Free Clinic Inc$25,00018%
Judos Juveniles Understanding Discipline Order and Service$24,3842n/a
Chc Creating Healthier Communities$23,54620%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida Inc$20,94721%
Tri-County Community Council Inc$19,98820%
Capital Area Community Action Agency Inc$17,59430%
Animal Charities of America$17,51220%
Heartland Rescue Ranch Inc$17,500111%
Pro Site Contracting$17,2001n/a
Washington County Council on Aging$16,85921%
Gulf Coast Council Boy Scouts of America$15,29621%
Helping Hands for People Inc$15,000116%
The Wright Foundation$15,0001n/a
Tyndall Air Force Base Youth Progra$14,6752n/a
Destiny Worship Center Inc$14,6512n/a
Legal Services of North Florida Inc$13,65920%
Presbyterian Church USA a Corp$13,2011n/a
United Way of Florida Inc$13,00011%
Angel House Bereavement Center Inc$12,592222%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northwest Florida Inc$12,03520%
Holmes Council on Aging Inc$11,84521%
United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc$11,02610%
United Way of West Florida Inc$10,93210%
Chipola Area Habitat for Humanity Inc$10,15511%
Harvest Christian Academy$10,0001n/a
Lavished Ministries Inc$9,750116%
Military Family and Veterans Service Organizations of America$8,66810%
Health & Medical Research Charities of America$8,62810%
Deliverance Baptist Church$8,0001n/a
Lgbtq Center of Bay County Inc$7,7441n/a
Healing Hearts Horse Rescue and Youth Ranch Inc$6,547125%
Elevation Life Church Inc$6,4711n/a
Fifty Five Plus Club Panama City Florida$6,3771n/a
North Florida Child Development Inc$6,32310%
Big Bend Area Health Education Center$6,30810%
Elder Care Services Inc$6,09610%
Bay Youth Summer Work Foundation I$6,048173%
Crossing Paths$6,0001n/a
Kinard Volunteer Fire Department Inc$6,0001n/a
Longleaf Out Reach & Development$5,8581n/a
Dancing for Hope Healing and Health Inc$5,3701n/a
Girl Scout Council of the Florida Panhandle Inc$5,3231n/a
Christian Service Charities Inc$5,2171n/a
Science & Discovery Center of Northwest Florida Inc$5,16011%
Baycares Inc$5,08811%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($99k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

United Way of Northwest Florida Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGulf Coast Children's Advocacy Center Inc: $1,376,676 over 9y, 14% of budgetRebuild Bay County Inc Fka Bay County Long Term Disaster Recov: $1,202,030 over 6y, 79% of budgetFamily Service Agency of Bay County Inc: $805,045 over 9y, 37% of budgetA Hand Up International Inc Global Outreach Ministries: $608,425 over 1y, 47% of budgetNorth Florida Inland Long Term Recovery Inc: $354,380 over 3y, 26% of budgetBay County Council on Aging Inc: $288,651 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetCitizens of Gulf County Recovery Team Inc: $285,009 over 2y, 73% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Bay County: $259,252 over 9y, 11% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Bay County Inc: $252,378 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetEarly Learning Coalition of Northwest Florida Inc: $217,782 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northwest Florida: $181,567 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetSt Andrew Bay Center Inc: $177,831 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetCovenant Hospice Inc: $158,214 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast: $147,313 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLife Management Center of Northwest Florida Inc: $133,638 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEarly Education & Care Inc: $131,782 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $131,144 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAnchorage Children's Home of Bay County Inc: $116,062 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetBasic Nwfl Inc: $113,751 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetInnovative Charities of Northwest Florida Inc: $104,827 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetMental Health America of Bay County Inc: $102,185 over 4y, 69% of budgetChemical Addictions Recovery Effort Inc: $98,790 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Bay County Inc: $81,868 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetAmerica's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc: $77,985 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Home Society of Florida: $68,073 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetStill Waters Ministries Inc: $67,491 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetBay Education Foundation Inc: $51,726 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetGulf Coast State College Foundation Inc: $50,089 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLead Coalition of Bay County: $49,893 over 5y, 15% of budgetNorth Florida Office of Public Guardian Inc: $49,448 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of Northwest Florida Inc: $45,214 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAlignment Bay County Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetPanama City Rescue Mission Inc: $36,645 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSecond Chance of Northwest Florida Inc: $36,494 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetJunior League of Panama City Inc: $34,695 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetFlorida State University Alumni Association: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetArc of Washington-Holmes Counties: $26,620 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAvicenna Free Clinic Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetChc Creating Healthier Communities: $23,546 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida Inc: $20,947 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTri-County Community Council Inc: $19,988 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCapital Area Community Action Agency Inc: $17,594 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Charities of America: $17,512 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHeartland Rescue Ranch Inc: $17,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetWashington County Council on Aging: $16,859 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGulf Coast Council Boy Scouts of America: $15,296 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHelping Hands for People Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetLegal Services of North Florida Inc: $13,659 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 65.

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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 St Joe Community Foundation IncFL48.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The St Joe Community Foundation Inc · Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation · Gulf Power Foundationinc · Homeless and Hunger Coalition of Northwest Florida Inc · Mack and Eleanor Lewis Family Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Isaac W Byrd Family Foundation Inc · Community Service Foundation of Bay County Inc · Charles a Whitehead Foundation Inc · First Federal Foundation Inc · Big Bend Community Based Care Inc · Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc

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.

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About United Way of Northwest Florida Inc

How much does United Way of Northwest Florida Inc give?
United Way of Northwest Florida Inc reported 35 itemized grants totaling $481,947, out of $540,335 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does United Way of Northwest Florida Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Public Safety & Disaster (20%), Crime & Legal (14%).
Who are United Way of Northwest Florida Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gulf Coast Children's Advocacy Center Inc ($1.4M), Rebuild Bay County Inc Fka Bay County Long Term Disaster Recov ($1.2M), Homeless and Hunger Coalition of Northwest Florida Inc ($921k).
Does United Way of Northwest Florida Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Northwest Florida Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The St Joe Community Foundation Inc, Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation, Gulf Power Foundationinc.
Where is United Way of Northwest Florida Inc based?
United Way of Northwest Florida Inc is based in FL.

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 94 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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