How much did UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC grant in FY2024?

UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC reported 29 grants totaling $1,348,522 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC based?

UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC is based in AL.

UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC

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· Public charity

UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC

To provide resources to improve the health, education, financial stability, and access to life's basic essentials for members of the southwest alabama community.

$1.3M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$51k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

donorgoodwill eastereaster sealsseals gulfmary'straining intellectuallyintellectually developmentally

2020

volunteerpersonssocial skillscrittentonclassrooms

2021

donorsocial skillscrittentonclassrooms

2022

volunteer lawyerssystemcasajudgedependencyabused neglectedensure children

2023

casajudgedependencyabused neglectedensure childrensocial skillscrittenton

2024

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2025

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

03FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $59k
$10k–50k21 grants · $401k
$50k–250k1 grant · $51k

$14,242

Median grant

States reached

$2.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS$50,529
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY$37,648
VIA HEALTH FITNESS AND ENRICHMENT CENTER$31,350
HOME OF GRACE FOR WOMEN$30,355
FEEDING THE GULF COAST$29,432
THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$28,395
PENELOPE HOUSE$25,594
DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER$22,667
MCKEMIE PLACE$20,087
MULHERIN CUSTODIAL HOME$18,863
GULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES$16,481
OZANAM CHARITABLE PHARMACY$16,061
AMERICAN RED CROSS ALABAMA GULF COAST CHAPTER$15,605
LIFELINES FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER$14,294
THE ARC OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA (FKA EDUC CTR FOR INDEPENDENCE)$14,242

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, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 15%. 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$10M · 39 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$10M

$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+22%

Still filing today

77%

86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther

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

LF
LIFELINES FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER
7× · 2018–2024 · $767k · revenue +42%
VH
VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS
7× · 2018–2024 · $640k · revenue +18%
BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
7× · 2018–2024 · $583k · revenue +3%

Funded once

MA
MOBILE AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $44k · revenue +356%
UW
UNITED WAY OF BALDWIN COUNTY
one grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue +4%
YO
YMCA OF SOUTH ALABAMA
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -38%

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.

Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center

Coordinate the community's response to child abuse in Shelby County, AL.

Crime & Legal

The Arc of Central Alabama Inc

Serving people with intellectual and/or other developmental disabilities and their families.

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Legal Aid Society of Birmingham

The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.

Crime & Legal

Rebuilding Together of South Al

Repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives.

Housing & Shelter

Legal Services Alabama Inc

Legal services alabama is a statewide nonprofit dedicated to providing access to justice and quality civil legal assistance to educate and empower alabama's low-income community.

Crime & Legal

Alabama Association of Habitat

Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.

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Alabama Rural Electric Association of

A statewide trade association which serves as a resource through which its electric cooperative members are provided services for the continuation and advancement of the rural electrification program in Alabama.

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Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

Environment

Southeast Arkansas Behavioral Healthcare

To create an environment where staff is conscientious to the behavioral health needs of the area in a manner which is client oriented, accessible, affordable, and quality driven.

Health

Alabama Rivers Alliance Inc

Promote the conservation of Alabama rivers and watersheds.

Environment

Community Kitchens of Birmingham

Assistance to homeless and needy persons.

Food & Nutrition

Greater Birmingham Ministries

To serve people, build community, pursue justice.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing First Inc and the most unlike its peers is United Way of Baldwin County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% 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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/46

the rest of the field

14%

248/1,759

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.

05the grantee network

38 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)

36/38

Grantees still filing

32/38

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,697,291Human Services$2,866,183Health$1,365,705Youth Development$822,255Food & Nutrition$635,543Housing & Shelter$134,410Civil Rights$16,150Crime & Legal$5,250

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.

Crampton Trust #1255000731AL37.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Crampton Trust #1255000731 · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · J L Bedsole Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Ws Foundation Inc · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · Mary J Larkins Charitable Foundation · The Hyman Foundation · Lillian C McGowin Foundation · The Joseph Treadwell Charitable Fdn · The Ben May Charitable Trust

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 ALABAMA INC 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: CRITTENTON YOUTH SERVICES.

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 630335378 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 CRITTENTON YOUTH SERVICES, 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.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 33% 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.

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How do I get to United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc 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 ALABAMA INC

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

38 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 Alabama Inc?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC

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

38 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 Alabama Inc?

More from the funding graph