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United Way of Southern Illinois Inc

The united way of southern illinois, inc.

$129k
Granted FY2018
4
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it funds
0182% 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
02FY2018 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $62,783, the rows itemized in this filing. The $129,196 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $66,413 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 · FY2018

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$65k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DESIGNATIONS$27,107
MARION MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE$15,000
Individual grant recipient$13,644
THE WOMEN'S CENTER$7,032
02The need
03

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 (FY17–17, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 15%WILLIAMSON COUNTY PROGRAMS ON AGING: $7k → 13%SENIOR ADULT SERVICES: $7k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$86k · 3 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$86k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+23%

Still filing today

67%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Human ServicesCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MM
    MARION MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $38k · revenue +19%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2017–2018 · $33k
  • SE
    SURVIVOR EMPOWERMENT CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS - SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • WC
    WILLIAMSON COUNTY PROGRAMS ON AGING
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +14%
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS - GREATER ST LOUIS COUN
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARION MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE: $38,250 · OtherMARION MINISTERIAL ALLIANCEIndividual grant recipient: $32,756 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDESIGNATIONS: $27,107 · OtherDESIGNATIONSSURVIVOR EMPOWERMENT CENTER INC: $14,522 · OtherSURVIVOR EMPOWERMENT CENTER INCGIRL SCOUTS - SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: $7,611 · OtherBOY SCOUTS - GREATER ST LOUIS COUN: $7,019 · OtherWILLIAMSON COUNTY FAMILY CRISIS CEN: $6,288 · OtherSI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $5,776 · OtherTHE WOMEN'S CENTER-RAPE CRISIS: $5,683 · OtherWILLIAMSON COUNTY PROGRAMS ON AGING: $7,498 · Human ServicesWILLIAMSO…SENIOR ADULT SERVICES: $6,740 · Human ServicesSENIOR AD…CASA OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS INC: $7,005 · Civil RightsGUMDROPS NFP: $5,940 · Food & Nutrition
Other$145,012Human Services$14,238Civil Rights$7,005Food & Nutrition$5,940

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARION MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE: $38,250 over 2y, 20% of budgetSURVIVOR EMPOWERMENT CENTER INC: $14,522 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWILLIAMSON COUNTY PROGRAMS ON AGING: $7,498 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCASA OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS INC: $7,005 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetGUMDROPS NFP: $5,940 over 1y, 4.9% of budget
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.

  • Who funds MARION MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SURVIVOR EMPOWERMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMSON COUNTY PROGRAMS ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR ADULT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds GUMDROPS NFP ↗

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Southern Illinois Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Southern Illinois Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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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