How much did UNITED WAY OF THE BIG BEND INC grant in FY2023?

Human Services$3.8MHousing & Shelter$704kFood & Nutrition$549kCrime & Legal$470kEducation$461kYouth Development$439kHealth$123kRecreation & Sports$12kReligion$9kOther$3.5M

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

legalseniorgroup membersboys girlscurrentlyentitiessets

2020

boys girlssrvcgod

2021

srvcgod

2022

srvcgod

2023

womentrainingjobgroup memberscurrentlyentitiesoperate

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

03FY2023 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k14 grants · $376k
$50k–250k14 grants · $982k

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

REFUGE HOUSE$124,181
ELDER CARE SERVICES$100,000
BIG BEND HABITAT$90,000
KIDS INC OF THE BIG BEND$80,000
CESC KEARNEY CENTER$76,085
AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST$67,608
211 BIG BEND$65,000
BREHON FAMILY INSTITUTE$63,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB BIG BEND$55,492
BIG BEND HOMELESS COALITION$55,000
EARLY LEARNING COALITION$54,760
CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY FND$50,407
PROJECT ANNIE$50,000
REFIRE CULINARY$50,000
PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS$40,000

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 (FY18–23, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 13%. 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.2M · 32 repeat orgs$910k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.2M

$496k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+43%

Still filing today

84%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $414k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHealthHousing & ShelterFood & 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

RH
REFUGE HOUSE
6× · 2018–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +10%
KI
KIDS INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND
6× · 2018–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +31%
BB
BIG BEND HOMELESS COALITION
6× · 2018–2023 · $791k · revenue +140%

Funded once

TA
TURN ABOUT
one grant, 2018 · $73k
BB
BIG BEND HOSPICEgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $63k · revenue +47%
LO
LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND
one grant, 2022 · $61k

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.

Coastal Bend Center for Independent

The mission is to assist people with disabilities to achieve their goals. cbcil provides core services of advocacy, independent living, peer counciling, information, and referral and transition services

Human Services

Community Legal Services of

To provide no-cost legal services to the most vulnerable in central florida, helping them protect their families, health and livelihood.

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Central Florida Community Action

Central florida community action agency implements programs that focus on achieving outcomes by engaging community partners in helping people living in poverty strengthen their lives.

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Fifth Circuit Public Guardian

Provide guardian and guardianship services to indigent and developmentally disabled citizens with no family or friends to make medical or financial decisions for them in citrus, hernando, lake, sumter and marion counties.

Human Services

Community Health Centers Inc

The mission of community health centers is to provide quality and compassionate primary healthcare services to central florida's diverse communities.

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Florida Alliance of Children's Councils

To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…

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Big Bend Community Action Committee Inc

To serve the economically disadvantaged persons in 8 west texas counties.

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Goodwill Industries of Sw Florida Inc

Goodwill industries of southwest florida is committed to serving people with disabilities and disadvantages by offering life-changing opportunities to achieve independence.

Employment

Florida Center for the Blind Inc

Florida center for the blind instructs individuals with visual impairments in the use of those compensatory skills and aids that will enable them to live safely, productively, independently and interdependently.

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Suncoast Center Inc

Strengthening, protecting and restoring lives for a healthy community.

Health

The Early Learning Coalition of Flagler

To enhance children's school readiness by providing opportunities for quality early learning while strengthening family stability for a healthy community.

Education

Lighthouse Central Florida Inc

Charting a course for living, learning, and earning with vision loss.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elder Care Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fellowship of Christian Athletes. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% 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 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/60

the rest of the field

12%

270/2,184

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

49 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)

47/49

Grantees still filing

38/49

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$3,817,837Other$3,660,084Housing & Shelter$703,848Food & Nutrition$548,774Crime & Legal$470,306Education$460,864Youth Development$439,364

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.

Capital City Bank GroupFL38.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Capital City Bank Group · Community Foundation of North · America's Second Harvest · The Beatitude Foundation Inc · Area Agency on Aging for North Florida · Big Bend Homeless Assistance Continuum of Care Inc · Big Bend Community Based Care Inc · United Way of Northwest Florida · The Scripps Howard Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 THE BIG BEND 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

24get no government money at all

3rely 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: REFIRE CULINARY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 872271636 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 REFIRE CULINARY, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 45% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 the Big Bend Inc?

Find your warmest path to United Way of the Big Bend 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 THE BIG BEND 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

49 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of the Big Bend Inc?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF THE BIG BEND 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

49 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of the Big Bend Inc?

More from the funding graph