· Public charity
United Way of Sumter Clarendon and Lee Counties Inc
To identify the health and human service needs of sumter, claredon, and lee counties, and through an organized joint effort, raise and distribute funds to meet those needs.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of UNITED WAY OF SUMTER CLARENDON AND LEE COUNTIES INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $42,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $64,883 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,633 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUMTER UNITED MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY CORPS | $7,500 |
| LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $7,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - SUMTER CHAPTER | $6,500 |
| ALSTON WILKES SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| SUMTER COUNTY LITERACY CENTER | $5,250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PTPATHWAYS TO HEALING7× · 2017–2023 · $103k · revenue +5%
- AWALSTON WILKES SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +37%
- CCCLARENDON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC6× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- YYWCAone grant, 2022 · $7k
- CBCLARENDON BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICEone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Aging services contractor
South Central Adult Services, Inc., provides meals, transportation, outreach and other supportive services to senior citizens in a six county area.
The center operates a skilled nursing facility for the aged and participates under both the medicaid and medicare programs.
Provide transportation and meals and additional assistance to elderly
To support / conduct activities that may provide housing, economic development, downtown revitalization, historic preservation and community development.
The south carolina victim assistance network's mission is to ensure crime victims receive access to, and assistance from the criminal and juvenile justice systems and related social service providers; to improve the quality of services…
Provide services for elderly
Elder care & transportation
Provides senior center and congregate and home delivered meals, homemaker services allowing seniors to remain in their homes.
Provide quality treatment and prevention services to all persons suffering from the consequences of substance abuse or HIV illnesses.
Provide services to senior citizens of Summers County, West Virginia.
To promote the mental social and physical welfare of seniors in Union County SC. To operate senior centers providing group dining home delivered meals transportation homemaker services and material support to seniors 60 and older.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sumter Senior Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sumter County Literacy Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO HEALING ↗
- Who funds ALSTON WILKES SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Sumter United Ministries ↗
- Who funds CLARENDON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds SUMTER COUNTY LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUMTER SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE UPPER LOWLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds CLARENDON COUNTY COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE ↗
- Who funds SUMTER COUNTY COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization United Way of Sumter Clarendon and Lee Counties 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.
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 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.