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United Way of Southern Illinois Inc

The united way of southern illinois, inc. Provides a mechanism for various charitable organizations in the southern illinois area to collect contributions through a single source.

$129k
Granted FY2018
4
Itemized grants FY2018
4
Organizations funded FY2018
25%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Itemized, FY2018
$63k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2018
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$27,107
Organizations funded a year
4 to 12
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$65k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 25% of the organizations United Way of Southern Illinois Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20184$63k25%
FY201712$109kn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

International$38kHuman Services$28kCrime & Legal$20kYouth Development$15kFood & Nutrition$6kHousing & Shelter$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marion Ministerial Alliance$38,250220%
Survivor Empowerment Center Inc$14,52220%
Williamson County Programs on Aging$7,49810%
Casa of Southern Illinois Inc$7,00515%
Senior Adult Services$6,7401n/a
Gumdrops Nfp$5,94015%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($92k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Southern Illinois Inc

How much does United Way of Southern Illinois Inc give?
United Way of Southern Illinois Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $62,783, out of $129,196 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does United Way of Southern Illinois Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are International (22%), Human Services (16%), Crime & Legal (11%).
Who are United Way of Southern Illinois Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Marion Ministerial Alliance ($38k), Survivor Empowerment Center Inc ($15k), Williamson County Programs on Aging ($7k).
Does United Way of Southern Illinois Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Southern Illinois Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is United Way of Southern Illinois Inc based?
United Way of Southern Illinois Inc is based in IL.

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 13 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $15k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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