How much did UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST grant in FY2024?

UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST reported 14 grants totaling $424,262 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST based?

UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST is based in GA.

UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST

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· Public charity

UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST

The organization's primary purpose is to raise and distribute funds for the community's needs and to bring the various voluntary, charitable, educational, health and social service organizations in the southwest georgia area together to maximize the benefits given by all and to bring the various voluntary, charitable, educational health…

$424k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$50k

Largest

01What you fund

0174% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Human Services$1.5MYouth Development$380kHealth$285kFood & Nutrition$144kCommunity Improvement$124kCrime & Legal$88kArts & Culture$11kOther$888k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

accreditation

2020

covid relief

2021

covid relief

2022

—

2023

—

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k12 grants · $336k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

YMCA$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$40,000
SALVATION ARMY$40,000
ALBANY ARC$35,000
DOUGHERTY CO FAMILY LITERACY$32,500
GIRLS SCOUTS$30,000
LIBERTY HOUSE$30,000
STRIVE 2 THRIVE$25,000
OPEN ARMS THE BRIDGE$25,000
FEEDING THE VALLEY FOOD BANK$24,000
SOWEGA COUNCIL ON AGING$21,000
HERO'S FOR SUCCESS INC$18,182
LILY PAD$15,000
EASTER SEALS$8,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 28% — the area typically sits at 22%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.2M · 18 repeat orgs$218k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.2M

$199k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

+84%

Still filing today

78%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
7× · 2018–2024 · $380k · revenue +6%
LH
LIBERTY HOUSE
7× · 2018–2024 · $234k · revenue +35%
SC
SOWEGA COUNCIL ON AGING
7× · 2018–2024 · $232k · revenue +19%

Funded once

SG
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA PROJECT FOR COMMUgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +144%
SC
ST CLAIRE'S CENTERNEIGHBOR IN NEED
one grant, 2018 · $20k
FU
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $20k

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.

Albany Housing Iii Inc

The organization rents group homes to individuals with disabilities.

Human Services

Albany Housing Iv Inc

The organization rents group homes to individuals with disabilities.

Human Services

Albany Housing Inc Ii

The organization rents group homes to individuals with disabilities.

Human Services

Albany Housing V Inc

The organization rents apartments to individuals with disabilities.

Human Services

Geauga Hunger Task Force

Our mission is to make sure no person goes hungry in geauga county

Food & Nutrition

Fluvanna Meals On Wheels

The organization's purpose is to provide meals to the elderly, disabled, and homebound in fluvanna county, virginia.

Food & Nutrition

Albany Housing Incorporated

The organization rents group homes to individuals with disabilities.

Human Services

Colquitt Food and Clothing Bank Inc

The purpose of this organization is to provide food to low income and needy families/individuals of Colquitt County, Georgia. Counseling in health and nutrition to these families/individual residents of Colquitt County is also provided.…

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Athenslimestone County Arc Inc

To provide employment for mentally challenged individuals.

Human Services

Augusta Food Bank

The augusta food bank provides a supplemental source of food to individuals and families in need.

Food & Nutrition

Alleghany County Council On Aging

Provide meals and home services to the elderly and handicapped in alleghany county, n.c.

Human Services

City of Hope Athens Inc

The mission and purpose of the organization is to provide food, supplies and clothing to families, children and senior adults living in food insecurity in athens/clarke county georgia and surrounding areas at no cost to the recipients.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Liberty House of Albany Inc and the most unlike its peers is Middle Flint Area Council On Aging. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/24

Grantees still filing

16/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$1,491,508Other$887,829Youth Development$380,102Health$285,046Food & Nutrition$143,500Community Improvement$124,108Crime & Legal$88,266Arts & Culture$10,518

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.

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.

Phoebe Putney Memorial HospitalGA18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Fisher-Crum Foundation · Herbert and Marian Haley Foundation · Georgia Health Initiative Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST 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.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: STRIVE 2 THRIVE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 454144213 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on STRIVE 2 THRIVE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 28% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way of Southwest?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Southwest through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Southwest?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Southwest?

More from the funding graph