· Public charity
United Way of the Big Bend Inc
To raise awareness, mobilize resources and find collaborative, targeted solutions for our community's most vital concerns.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $1,232,008 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,902,305 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $670,297 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 · $31k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $176k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BEND HOMELESS COALITION | $115,000 |
| REFUGE HOUSE | $108,500 |
| ELDER CARE SERVICES | $103,637 |
| EMERGENCY CARE HELP ORG | $90,000 |
| KIDS INC OF THE BIG BEND | $77,210 |
| BREHON FAMILY INSTITUTE | $75,000 |
| AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST | $70,587 |
| CESC KEARNEY CENTER | $65,453 |
| REFIRE CULINARY | $57,509 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB BIG BEND | $55,000 |
| 211 BIG BEND | $55,000 |
| CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY FND | $51,889 |
| OMEGA LAMPLIGHTERS PROGRAM | $50,000 |
| PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS | $50,000 |
| THE OASIS CENTER FOR WOMEN & GIRLS | $49,950 |
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 (FY17–25, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- RHREFUGE HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +25%
- KIKIDS INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +73%
- ECELDER CARE SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +6%
Funded once
- PAPROJECT ANNIEone grant, 2023 · $50k
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDAone grant, 2023 · $38k · revenue +8%
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.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
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.
Cbcil's mission is to assist people with disabilities to achieve their goals. cbcil provides five core services of advocacy, independent living, peer counseling, information and referral, and transition services. an array of programs,…
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…
The purpose of careersource capital region (cscr) is to provide for enhanced coordination, cooperation, collaboration, and outcomes, by and between the several entities, both public and private, which are involved at the local level in…
Charitable or educational purposes related to services for persons experiencing homelessness and persons at risk of homelessness in the service area. in pursuance of the foregoing purposes, vfcch shall facilitate and coordinate the…
Bond community health center, inc. was established to provide available and promptly accessible primary health services, primarily to the residents of tallahassee/leon county and surrounding areas, and to operate the health center in such…
Part iii, line 1 to empower people with disabilities to attain equal opportunities in society by providing training, education, advocacy, and resources needed to live independently.
The mission of the florida association of community health centers, inc. is to advance florida's community health centers through resource development, partnerships, technical assistance, and increased community awareness.
The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.
Big brothers big sisters association of florida strengthens and expands evidence-based youth mentoring services statewide by providing resources, advocacy, and support to 11 local affiliates.
To create a community and academic partnerships to improve the health of rural and medically underserved communities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elder Care Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Taylor County 4-H Foundation 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 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
51 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. 51 of the 61 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 REFUGE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS INCORPORATED OF THE BIG BEND ↗
- Who funds ELDER CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BEND HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BEND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BIG BEND INC ↗
- Who funds BREHON INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF THE BIG BEND REGION INC ↗
- Who funds 2-1-1 BIG BEND INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY CARE HELP ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRUCE HARTER LEARNING PAVILION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE BIG BEND INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL CITY YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CESC Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF NORTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds TURN ABOUT INC OF TALLAHASSEE ↗
- Who funds WAKULLA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCILINC ↗
- Who funds REfire Culinary Inc ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds Big Bend Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BEND CARES INC ↗
- Who funds THE OASIS CENTER FOR WOMEN & GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds OMEGA LAMPLIGHTERS INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF LEON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' CHOIR OF TALLAHASSEE ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE LANDING INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH FLORIDA OFFICE OF PUBLIC GUARDIAN INC ↗
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: Capital City Bank Group Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Florida Inc · America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc · The Beatitude Foundation Inc · Area Agency on Aging for North Florida · Big Bend Community Based Care Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Big Bend Homeless Assistance Continuum of Care Inc · Big Bend Homeless Coalition Inc · Guy & Therese de la Valdene Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Florida Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida 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 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.
- Kids Incorporated of the Big Bend — 100% of income from government
- Big Bend Homeless Coalition Inc — 65% of income from government
- Capital Area Community Action Agency Inc — 52% of income from government
- Neighborhood Medical Center Inc — 45% of income from government
- Center for Independent Living of North Florida Inc — 34% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of North Central Florida Inc — 31% of income from government
- Legal Services of North Florida Inc — 27% of income from government
- Elder Care Services Inc — 22% of income from government
- Capital City Youth Services Inc — 20% of income from government
- Refuge House Inc — 10% of income from government
- America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Amikids Inc (Parent) — 1% of income from government
- Big Bend Cares Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rethink Energy Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
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.