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United Way of Slo County

United way is working to build a stronger, healthier, more compassionate community in slo county through impact grant awards and prevention programming by focusing on the building blocks of a good life; education, income and health.

$882k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

International$472kEducation$210kAnimals$156kHealth$150kEnvironment$70kArts & Culture$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$42kEmployment$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 40 grants below total $663,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $881,563 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $218,563 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $476k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
$15,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARE$60,000
US FUND FOR UNICEF FBO BRIDGE FUND$50,000
AFS-USA INC ATTN TARA HOFMANN PRESIDENTCEO$50,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$40,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$27,000
CAMFED$20,000
CUESTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION MARGARET TEMPLETON NURSING SCHOLARSHIP F$20,000
ACUMEN FUND INC$20,000
AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$20,000
FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC$17,000
CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND$17,000
SAN LUIS OBISPO MUSEUM OF ART$15,000
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FBO SCHOOL MATINEE PROGRAM$15,000
MIT ALUMNI FUND FBO 33 IRDF 34 MISTI CHILE 33 MITES$15,000
ASHOKA$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY23–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MT
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
HI

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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 31 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
3

Total granted

$1.2M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
-9%

Still filing today

94%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
InternationalAnimalsEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +1%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $80k · revenue +1%
  • CP
    CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SLO COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -73%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +16%
  • HA
    Homeless Animal Rescue Team
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -9%

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.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
3
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
6
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
7
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
8
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
9
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
10
California Institute of Environmental Studies

The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.

Animals
11
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
12
Blue World Foundation Inc

To stabilize the population of marine species in danger, especially sharks and rays in the caribbean of guatemala; through science and community strengthening which will provide the creation of alternative livelihoods, which eventually…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camfed Usa Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Homeless Animal Rescue Team. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsLocal History MuseumsYmca Youth DevelopmentSchool District FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Policy Research and AdvocacyImmigrant Worker SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Community Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterUnited Way AffiliatesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%38%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr13%27%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/40
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,938

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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 40 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
23/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $100,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFAFS-USA INC — $100,000 · InternationalAFS-USA INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $80,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $42,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $40,000 · InternationalCAMFED USA FOUNDATIONACUMEN FUND INC — $40,000 · InternationalACUMEN FUND INCFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $32,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INCASHOKA — $30,000 · InternationalASHOKAEmerge Global — $30,000 · InternationalEmerge GlobalCENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE — $20,000 · InternationalCARE — $120,000 · OtherCAREAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE — $30,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVIC…AMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY — $30,000 · OtherAMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE…Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County Inc — $20,000 · OtherCommunity Action Partne…SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF SLO COUNTY — $20,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF SLO COUNT…CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST — $15,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA RANGELAND TR…IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $12,000 · OtherSLO4HOME INC — $10,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $70,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA POLYTEC…CUESTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationCUESTA COLLEGE FOU…Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $25,000 · EducationMassachusetts Inst…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $20,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUST…Trustees of Tufts College — $20,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts …ROOM TO READ — $15,000 · EducationROOM TO READSAN LUIS COASTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDL…Cheetah Conservation Fund — $34,000 · AnimalsCheetah Conse…CHENGETA WILDLIFE — $20,000 · AnimalsCHENGETA WILD…WILDAID INC — $20,000 · AnimalsWILDAID INCNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $20,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILD…Pacific Wildlife Care — $12,000 · AnimalsPacific Wildl…Homeless Animal Rescue Team — $10,000 · AnimalsHomeless Anim…NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL — $30,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentMOLOKAI LAND TRUST — $20,000 · EnvironmentFOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $35,000 · Arts & CultureSAN LUIS OBISPO MUSEUM OF ART — $15,000 · Arts & CultureOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Health
International$514,000Other$267,000Education$210,000Animals$156,000Environment$70,000Arts & Culture$50,000Health$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFS-USA INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $42,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $35,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund — $34,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASHOKA — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEmerge Global — $30,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetNATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCUESTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SLO COUNTY — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHENGETA WILDLIFE — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILDAID INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOLOKAI LAND TRUST — $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO READ — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO MUSEUM OF ART — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Wildlife Care — $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHomeless Animal Rescue Team — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSAN LUIS COASTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSLO4HOME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budget
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.

The Community Foundat…The Clements Family C…ImpactassetsincNational Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
The Community Foundation San Luis ObispoCA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 of Slo County 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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: 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$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