How much does United Way of Smith County give?

United Way of Smith County reported 24 itemized grants totaling $659,286, out of $797,444 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Smith County fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (21%), Human Services (19%), Education (18%).

Who are United Way of Smith County's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Childrens Advocacy Center of Smith County ($1.2M), Literacy Council of Tyler Dba Pave East Texas ($902k), The Salvation Army ($680k).

Does United Way of Smith County fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

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

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Texas Communities Foundation, Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation, The Junior League of Tyler Inc.

Where is United Way of Smith County based?

United Way of Smith County is based in TX.

United Way of Smith County

United Way of Smith County at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

United Way of Smith County

To support local 501(c)(3) organizations.

$797k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$106k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$1.5MHuman Services$1.3MEducation$1.3MHealth$1.0MYouth Development$757kHousing & Shelter$308kFood & Nutrition$248kEmployment$197kOther$0

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 24 grants below total $659,286, the rows itemized in this filing. The $797,444 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $138,158 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $11k
$10k–50k19 grants · $403k
$50k–250k3 grants · $245k

$16,926

Median grant

States reached

$6.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CTR OF SMITH CNTY	$105,523
LITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER	$70,296
SALVATION ARMY	$68,876
BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC	$42,612
PATH	$40,079
CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN	$33,991
EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK	$33,261
EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER	$28,447
SMITH COUNTY 4-H	$28,076
CASA FOR KIDS OF EAST TEXAS	$22,988
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA	$17,221
EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$16,926
TYLER DAY NURSERY	$15,711
CHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORPS	$15,402
NEXT STEP COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS	$15,115

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, $803k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.9M · 29 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against -22% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.9M

$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

-22%

Still filing today

76%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

CA
CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +256%
LC
LITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER DBA PAVE EAST TEXAS
9× · 2017–2025 · $902k · revenue +20%
BH
BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC
9× · 2017–2025 · $446k · revenue +286%

Funded once

SP
ST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue -26%
NT
NORTH TYLER DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY
one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -22%

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.

East Texas Community Clinic Inc

To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.

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Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services

Lone Star Casa Inc

Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…

Civil Rights

Children's Aid Society of West Tx Inc

To provide shelter, supervision, and counseling for children in crisis; to cooperate with other agencies in order to resolve problems related to the welfare of these children; to assist the families of these children in seeking possible…

Human Services

Childrens Advocacy Center of Van Zandt County Inc

The children's advocacy center of van zandt county is committed to ensuring quality services and support to those children impacted by abuse while also building a future where no child in van zandt county experiences abuse.

Human Services

Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center Inc

To bring hope and healing while working together to break the cycle of child abuse.

Human Services

Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.

Crime & Legal

Court Appointed Special Advocates of North Texas Inc

To provide abused children with trained, court appointed volunteers who investigate, monitor and serve as advocates to help them secure a permanent and safe residence.

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Casa of Williamson County Texas

CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.

Crime & Legal

Children's Alliance of South Texas

To provide a neutral, child friendly organization that facilitates a multi-disciplinary approach to the investigation, intervention and treatment of child abuse.

Crime & Legal

Central Texas Community Health Centers

Communitycare operates 25 health center locations offering comprehensive primary care services for the entire family including pediatrics, behavioral health services, and dental care.

Health

South Taylor Emergency Medical Serv

To provide efficient, effective, and professional prehospital emergency care and transportation to those living in the unincorporated areas of Taylor County, Texas and as requested by municipalities in Taylor County

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mentoring Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Next Step Community Solutions. 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

26 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. 26 of the 32 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)

25/26

Grantees still filing

18/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,315,270Education$1,266,144Crime & Legal$1,206,693Human Services$802,858Health$708,337Youth Development$391,285Housing & Shelter$308,420

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.

East Texas Communities FoundationTX32.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Texas Communities Foundation · Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · The Junior League of Tyler Inc · The Louis and Peaches Owen Family Foundation · The Rogers Foundation · Womens Fund of Smith County · Etx Successor System · Hibbs Family Foundation · T B Butler Foundation · Riter Family Foundation · Bob L Herd Foundation · A S Genecov Foundation

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 Smith County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Smith County. 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 · 0–30%

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

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home