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United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc

To improve the quality of life in the community.

$895k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$56k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$4.8MHealth$2.8MYouth Development$1.0MHousing & Shelter$786kCrime & Legal$493kFood & Nutrition$405kPublic Safety & Disaster$289kAnimals$286kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 29 grants below total $601,949, the rows itemized in this filing. The $895,414 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $293,465 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 $10k6 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $499k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
$17,624
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS$56,058
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY$37,216
VIA HEALTH FITNESS AND ENRICHMENT CENTER$37,117
DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER$36,567
HOME OF GRACE FOR WOMEN$35,186
PENELOPE HOUSE$32,531
FEEDING THE GULF COAST$31,040
THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$28,446
GOODWILL GULF COAST$22,821
MULHERIN CUSTODIAL HOME$21,014
MCKEMIE PLACE$19,696
GULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES$19,160
THE ARC OF SOUTHWEST ALABMAA (FKA EDUC CTR FOR INDEPENDENCE)$18,107
HOUSING FIRST$17,741
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH ALABAMA$17,624
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%THE ARC OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA (FKA EDUC CTR FOR INDEPENDENCE): $34k → 17%EDUCATIONAL CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $31k → 17%MULHERIN CUSTODIAL HOME: $21k → 19%THE ARC OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA (FKA EDUC CTR FOR INDEPENDENCE): $31k → 17%GULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES: $19k → 19%THE ARC OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA: $31k → 17%EDUCATIONAL CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $28k → 17%THE ARC OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA (FKA EDUC CTR FOR INDEPENDENCE): $25k → 17%REGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $24k → 24%MULHERIN CUSTODIAL HOME: $30k → 19%MULHERIN CUSTODIAL HOME: $30k → 19%MULHERIN CUSTODIAL HOME: $26k → 19%MULHERIN CUSTODIAL HOME: $26k → 19%MULHERIN CUSTODIAL HOME: $26k → 19%CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION: $22k → 19%CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION: $22k → 19%CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION: $22k → 19%MULHERIN CUSTODIAL HOME: $20k → 19%CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 19%MULHERIN CUSTODIAL HOME: $19k → 19%GULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES: $57k → 19%GULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES: $57k → 19%GULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES: $57k → 19%GULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES: $56k → 19%PENELOPE HOUSE: $33k → 19%GULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES: $51k → 19%GULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES: $46k → 19%CRITTENTON YOUTH SERVICES: $36k → 19%CRITTENTON YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 19%CRITTENTON YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 19%CRITTENTON YOUTH SERVICES: $23k → 19%CRITTENTON YOUTH SERVICES: $23k → 19%CRITTENTON YOUTH SERVICES: $23k → 19%LIFELINES FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER: $136k → 19%LIFELINES FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER: $136k → 19%LIFELINES FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER: $136k → 19%LIFELINES FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER: $136k → 19%LIFELINES FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER: $125k → 19%LIFELINES FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER: $78k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MOBILE: $36k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MOBILE: $36k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MOBILE: $35k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MOBILE: $33k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MOBILE: $33k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MOBILE: $30k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MOBILE: $27k → 19%FAMILY PROMISE OF COASTAL ALABAMA: $20k → 19%FAMILY PROMISE OF COASTAL ALABAMA: $20k → 19%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 39 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
7

Total granted

$11M
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+36%

Still filing today

77%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther
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

  • FC
    Family Counseling Center of Mobile Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $784k · revenue +62%
  • VH
    Victory Health Partners Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $696k · revenue +19%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA
    8× · 2018–2025 · $601k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • MA
    Mobile Area Education Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $44k · revenue +569%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BALDWIN COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue -10%
  • YO
    YMCA of South Alabama Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +36%
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.

1
The Arc of Alabama Inc

The arc of alabama provides services to advocate and aid individuals with cognitive, intellectual, and developmental disabilities in the state of alabama.

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2
The Arc of Central Alabama Inc

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

—
3
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
4
Central Alabama Regional Child Advocacy Center

Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.

Crime & Legal
5
Southeast Alabama Child Advocacy Center

Established to serve as an advocate of children & to reduce the trauma & anxiety of victims of child abuse by providing coordinated multi- disciplinary & human approach to the investigation & interviewing process.

Human Services
6
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
7
Rebuilding Together of South Al

Repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives.

Housing & Shelter
8
Child Advocacy Center of Cullman Inc

Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation

Human Services
9
Covenant Academy of Mobile

Operation of a public charter school in Mobile Alabama.

Human Services
10
Voices for Alabama's Children

Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
11
The Arc of Tuscaloosa

The mission of the Arc of Tuscaloosa County is to provide activities to persons residing in Tuscaloosa County who have developmental or intellectual disabilities, which enable the individual to maintain previously acquired skills/behaviors…

Human Services
12
Rape Counselors of East Alabama Inc

To provide crisis counseling to victims of sexual assault and their family members upon reporting to the hospital or police station. also to provide community awareness of the problems of sexual assault.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Coastal Alabama; the most unlike its peers is Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc. 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

41 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. 41 of the 49 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $606,083 · OtherDUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTERGOODWILL GULF COAST: $521,325 · OtherGOODWILL GULF COASTTHE SALVATION ARMY: $459,112 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $353,412 · OtherTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INCUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $326,215 · OtherUNITED CEREBRAL PALSYMOBILE ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS: $322,248 · OtherMOBILE ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENSST MARYS HOME: $321,760 · OtherST MARYS HOMEWILMER HALL CHILDREN'S HOME: $301,612 · OtherWILMER HALL CHILDREN'S HOMEAMERICAN RED CROSS ALABAMA GULF COAST CHAPTER: $288,745 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS ALABAMA GULF COAST CHAPTERDEARBORN YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $276,263 · OtherDEARBORN YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INCSenior Citizens Services Inc: $245,381 · OtherCatholic Social Services of Montgomery: $238,437 · OtherDrug Education Council Inc: $222,065 · Other+12 more: $450,313 · Other+12 moreFamily Counseling Center of Mobile Inc: $783,738 · Human ServicesFamily Counseling Center of Mo…PENELOPE HOUSE INC: $573,763 · Human ServicesPENELOPE HOUSE INCGULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES INC: $360,976 · Human ServicesGULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD …Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc: $258,045 · Human ServicesRonald McDonald House Charitie…THE ARC OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC: $227,280 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA I…Mulherin Custodial Home Inc: $222,693 · Human ServicesMulherin Custodial Home IncCRITTENTON YOUTH SERVICES INC: $154,787 · Human ServicesREGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $117,844 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF COASTAL ALABAMA: $115,565 · Human ServicesCHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $106,143 · Human Services+4 more: $92,613 · Human ServicesVictory Health Partners Inc: $695,729 · HealthVictory Health …Home of Grace For Women Inc: $439,518 · HealthHome of Grace F…Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc: $258,989 · HealthOzanam Charitab…AIDS ALABAMA INC: $87,162 · HealthAIDS ALABAMA IN…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $600,797 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL GULF COAST INC: $254,872 · Youth DevelopmentFeeding the Gulf Coast: $404,665 · Food & NutritionHOPE FOR ALL GULF COAST: $279,659 · Food & NutritionMcKemie Place Inc: $154,106 · Housing & ShelterGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE GULF COAST INC: $22,821 · Employment
Other$4,932,971Human Services$3,013,447Health$1,481,398Youth Development$855,669Food & Nutrition$684,324Housing & Shelter$154,106Employment$22,821

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFamily Counseling Center of Mobile Inc: $783,738 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetVictory Health Partners Inc: $695,729 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetDUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $606,083 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $600,797 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetPENELOPE HOUSE INC: $573,763 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetHome of Grace For Women Inc: $439,518 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast: $404,665 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES INC: $360,976 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $353,412 over 8y, 23% of budgetMOBILE ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS: $322,248 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHOPE FOR ALL GULF COAST: $279,659 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetDEARBORN YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $276,263 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetOzanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc: $258,989 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc: $258,045 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL GULF COAST INC: $254,872 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetSenior Citizens Services Inc: $245,381 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetCatholic Social Services of Montgomery: $238,437 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetTHE ARC OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC: $227,280 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetMulherin Custodial Home Inc: $222,693 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetDrug Education Council Inc: $222,065 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetTHE LEARNING TREE INC: $160,104 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCRITTENTON YOUTH SERVICES INC: $154,787 over 6y, 33% of budgetMcKemie Place Inc: $154,106 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetREGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $117,844 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF COASTAL ALABAMA: $115,565 over 8y, 13% of budgetCHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $106,143 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetSICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA MOBILE: $104,772 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetAIDS ALABAMA INC: $87,162 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF CLARKE COUNTY INC: $40,435 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetALPHA WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER INC: $40,414 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MOBILE INC: $37,216 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE GULF COAST INC: $22,821 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA MOBILE INC: $16,150 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BALDWIN COUNTY INC: $13,604 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMOBILE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $12,442 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA of South Alabama Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSouth Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program: $5,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST ALABAMA RSVP INC: $1,764 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTH ALABAMA INC: $441 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Family Counseling Center of Mobile Inc ↗
  • Who funds Victory Health Partners Inc ↗
  • Who funds DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds PENELOPE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Home of Grace For Women Inc ↗
  • Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
  • Who funds GULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR ALL GULF COAST ↗
  • Who funds DEARBORN YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc ↗
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL GULF COAST INC ↗
  • Who funds Senior Citizens Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Social Services of Montgomery ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds Mulherin Custodial Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds Drug Education Council Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE LEARNING TREE INC ↗
  • Who funds CRITTENTON YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds McKemie Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF COASTAL ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA MOBILE ↗
  • Who funds AIDS ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF CLARKE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds ALPHA WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MOBILE INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE GULF COAST INC ↗

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.

Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank TrusteeAL34.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Hyman Foundation · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · Dog Hill Foundation · Mary J Larkins Charitable Foundation · The Joseph Treadwell Charitable Fdn · Skyros Benevolent Society

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 Southwest Alabama Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 49 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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