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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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$512kPublic Safety & Disaster$291kYouth Development$274kHealth$143kCrime & Legal$93kFood & Nutrition$75kEducation$66kPhilanthropy$38k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $42,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $64,883 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,633 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 $10k5 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$699k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YWCA OF THE UPPER LOWLANDS: $8k → 14%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.
$1.5M · 18 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
2

Total granted

$1.5M
$12k

Still filing today

61%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
HealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • PT
    PATHWAYS TO HEALING
    7× · 2017–2023 · $103k · revenue +5%
  • AW
    ALSTON WILKES SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +37%
  • CC
    CLARENDON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • Y
    YWCA
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
  • CB
    CLARENDON BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Walton County Senior Citizens Council

Aging services contractor

Human Services
2
Saluda Nursing Center

The center operates a skilled nursing facility for the aged and participates under both the medicaid and medicare programs.

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3
South Central Adult Services Council Inc

South Central Adult Services, Inc., provides meals, transportation, outreach and other supportive services to senior citizens in a six county area.

Food & Nutrition
4
Somerset Commission on Aging

Provide transportation and meals and additional assistance to elderly

Human Services
5
Yancey County Committee On Aging Inc

Provide services for elderly

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6
City of Sumter Housing and Economic Development Corporation

To support / conduct activities that may provide housing, economic development, downtown revitalization, historic preservation and community development.

Housing & Shelter
7
South Carolina Victim Assistance Network

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…

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8
Council On Aging of St Lucie Inc

Elder care & transportation

Human Services
9
Dillon County Council On Aging

Provides senior center and congregate and home delivered meals, homemaker services allowing seniors to remain in their homes.

Human Services
10
Summers County Council on Aging Inc

Provide services to senior citizens of Summers County, West Virginia.

Human Services
11
Somerset Treatment Services Inc

Provide quality treatment and prevention services to all persons suffering from the consequences of substance abuse or HIV illnesses.

Health
12
Lexington Richland Alcohol & Drug Abuse Council Inc

Providing treatment, prevention and intervention services in connection with diseases of alcoholism and drug addiction.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sumter Senior Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 20 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN RED CROSS: $291,173 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSTHE SALVATION ARMY: $244,162 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSALVATION ARMY: $177,099 · OtherSALVATION ARMYALSTON WILKES SOCIETY: $93,256 · OtherALSTON WILKES SOCIETYSumter United Ministries: $81,250 · OtherSumter United MinistriesCLARENDON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $75,292 · OtherCLARENDON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INCSALVATION ARMY CORPS: $67,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMY CORPSSUMTER SENIOR SERVICES INC: $48,913 · OtherLEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $46,327 · Other+4 more: $73,705 · Other+4 morePATHWAYS TO HEALING: $102,654 · HealthPATHWAYS T…CLARENDON COUNTY COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE: $18,823 · HealthCLARENDON …SUMTER COUNTY COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE: $16,843 · HealthSUMTER COU…SUMTER COUNTY LITERACY CENTER: $66,265 · EducationGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC: $30,975 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE UPPER LOWLANDS INC: $38,730 · Human Services
Other$1,198,677Health$138,320Education$66,265Youth Development$50,975Human Services$38,730

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPATHWAYS TO HEALING: $102,654 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetALSTON WILKES SOCIETY: $93,256 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSumter United Ministries: $81,250 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCLARENDON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $75,292 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetSUMTER COUNTY LITERACY CENTER: $66,265 over 7y, 98% of budgetSUMTER SENIOR SERVICES INC: $48,913 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetLEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $46,327 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE UPPER LOWLANDS INC: $38,730 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC: $30,975 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCLARENDON COUNTY COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE: $18,823 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSUMTER COUNTY COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE: $16,843 over 3y, 0.4% 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 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 ↗

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.

Central Carolina Community FoundationSC21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sumter Clarendon and Lee Counties Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Sumter Clarendon and Lee Counties Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    6report 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 20 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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