· Public charity
United Way Emerald Coast
Our mission is to unite people with resources to improve the quality of life in okaloosa and walton counties.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $422,478 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $618,913 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $196,435 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 $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $408k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MATRIX COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER | $43,681 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE EEMERALD COAST INC | $35,705 |
| WESTERWOOD RANCH | $32,103 |
| A BED 4 ME FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - WALTON | $30,000 |
| EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF THE EMERALD COAST | $26,956 |
| CROSSROADS CENTER INC | $22,603 |
| FREEDOM LIFE COMPASS | $21,500 |
| OKALOOSA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC | $21,288 |
| EMERALD COAST CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY | $20,514 |
| CRESTVIEW AREA SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS | $20,000 |
| LAKEVIEW CENTER INC | $19,066 |
| FEEDING THE GULF COAST | $17,645 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME | $17,500 |
| PEARL PROJECT INC | $14,451 |
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 (FY17–25, $815k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +11% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 7 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k 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
- ELEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF OKALOOSA & WALTON COUNTIES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $198k · revenue +24%
- SCSHARING & CARING INC5× · 2017–2022 · $194k · revenue +31%
- MHMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF OKALOOSA/WALTON COUNTIES INC5× · 2017–2023 · $150k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS OF NW FLORIDAone grant, 2017 · $40k
- PWPoint Washington Medical Clinic Incgraduated2× · 2022–2024 · $33k · revenue +52%
- UFUNITED FOR A GOOD CAUSE INCgraduated2× · 2022–2023 · $24k · revenue +407%
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.
The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.
Gulf coast partnership, inc. (the organization) mission is to prevent homelessness in charlotte county. the organization is a department of hud lead agency on homelessness in the state of florida. the organization is funded through a…
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
The organization serves homeless families with dependent children through an emergency and transitional residential program. the center offers physical, emotional, social and educational services to assist families in the transition to…
To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.
To provide substance abuse treatment and prevention.
The organization is dedicated to providing case management and housing location services for homeless and other adults with mental illness and co-occurring disabilities.
Through empathetic compassion, we ae committed to connecting individuals and families to resources that offer multiple pathways to long-term, sustainable recovery.
To provide temporary shelter, related services and nuturing support to housing insecure families with children in baldwin county.
Charitable or educational purposes related to services for persons experiencing homelessness and persons at risk of homelessness in the service area. in pursuance of the foregoing purposes, vfcch shall facilitate and coordinate the…
The homeless services network of central florida is the lead agency for the hud continuum of care supportive housing program, shelter, and care funding for osceola, seminole, and orange counties including the city of orlando. it…
To provide a nurturing environment for families impacted by divorce, custody battles, and domestic violence, by keeping children safe during these challenging times and helping parents foster positive relationships with their children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emerald Coast Childrens Advocacy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is United for a Good Cause Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
50 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. 50 of the 53 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 EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF OKALOOSA & WALTON COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHARING & CARING INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF OKALOOSA/WALTON COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE EMERALD COAST INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS OF OKALOOSA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ELEANOR JOHNSON YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds OKALOOSA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds MATRIX COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENT ↗
- Who funds S4P SYNERGY INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Lifeview Group Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS VOLUNTEER HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD COAST SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WALTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION IN ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WALTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Point Washington Medical Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTONWOOD RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds WALTON COUNTY CITIZENS ADVISORY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds A BED 4 ME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds UNITED FOR A GOOD CAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OKALOOSA AIDS SUPPORT AND INFORMATIONAL SERVICES INC- OASIS ↗
- Who funds Freedom Life Compass Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FLORIDA GUARDIAN AD LITEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OKALOOSA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds CATERPILLAR 2 BUTTERFLY OUTREACH CENTER ↗
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 St Joe Community Foundation Inc · Impact 100 of Northwest Florida Inc · Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation Inc · Big Bend Community Based Care Inc · Gulf Power Foundationinc · The Alys Foundationinc · Dugas Family Foundation Inc · United Way of West Florida Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · Okaloosa Walton Homeless Continuum of Care Opportunity Inc · 30a 10k Inc
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 Emerald Coast 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Caterpillar 2 Butterfly Outreach Center — 59% of income from government
- Okaloosa Walton Homeless Continuum of Care Opportunity Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida — 5% of income from government
- The Pearl Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lakeview Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Harvest House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Alternative Living Inc — 0% of income from government
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.