· Public charity
United Way of Northwest Georgiainc
Improving lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $144k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL | $613,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $525,687 |
| NW GA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER | $325,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS - NGCAA | $205,657 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOUSE | $190,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $182,000 |
| ROSS WOODS ADULT DAY SERVICES | $179,000 |
| WHITFIELD-DALTON DAYCARE | $171,315 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS | $160,000 |
| CARTER HOPE CENTER | $160,000 |
| CROSS PLAINS COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $82,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF NW GA | $55,000 |
| REBUILDING HOPE | $50,000 |
| DEO CLINIC | $50,000 |
| THE GREEN HOUSE | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
26 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FSFAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +50%
- NGNorthwest Georgia Family Crisis Center8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +44%
- NGNORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY ACTION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +0%
Funded once
- MCMURRAY CO 4H CLUBone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.
Emergency foster care for abused and neglected children in pickens, dawson, and surrounding counties.
The organization provides family counseling services to families in clarke,barrow,madison,jackson,oconee and oglethorpe counties in georgia.
The Organizations mission is to provide short term domestic violence and sexual assault intervention and support for women and children.
To create clinical, educational, and research programs that will employ the strengths of the community of faith in the local congregation to enhance family life and positively impact family wellness.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need it most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Educational and work activities for the mentally challenged citizens of colquitt and worth counties of georgia.
To lead, support, and coordinate citizens and professionals in an effort to provide a central location using a multidisciplinary team approach to coordinate the evaluation, intervention, prosecution and treatment for children (and their…
To promote, assist and support the development, growth & continuation of children's advocacy centers in the state of Georgia.
Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling
Day care for low income families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Georgia Council Boy Scout America 100 and the most unlike its peers is Deo Clinic Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
22 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. 22 of the 27 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 FAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Georgia Family Crisis Center ↗
- Who funds NORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs Northwest Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds ROSSWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Georgia Mtns ↗
- Who funds WHITFIELD COUNTY DALTON DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOL INC DBA CARTER HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROSS PLAINS COMMUNITY PARTNER INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Greenhouse Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST GEORGIA COUNCIL BOY SCOUT AMERICA 100 ↗
- Who funds DEO CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds MURRAY COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOHN W LOOPER JR SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA EXTENSION 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Dalton Whitfield and Murra ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST GEORGIA MARRIAGE INITIATIVE INC DBA FAMILY FRAMEWORKS ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds COALICION DE LIDERES LATINOS INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA EXTENSION 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc · Mohawk Carpet Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Jack and Aggie Bandy Foundation Inc · North Georgia Electric Membership Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Nabors to Neighbors Inc · White Family Foundation Inc · Helen and Harry Saul Foundation · The Anita and Julian Saul Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Northwest Georgiainc 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.