· Public charity
United Way of the Capital Area
To improve lives and build strong communities by uniting individuals with the will, passion, expertise and resources needed to solve problems.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERATION SHOESTRING | $33,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF JACKSON | $30,150 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI | $26,800 |
| CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION | $20,100 |
| MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL | $16,750 |
| MIDTOWN PARTNERS | $16,750 |
| GIRL SCOUTS MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI COUNCIL | $11,390 |
| CLINTON COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIANS IN ACTION | $10,000 |
| MADISON COUNTIANS ALLIED AGAINST POVERTY | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $345k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of United Way of the Capital Area’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MS; read by stated purpose it is 74% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +13% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down.
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 FY2020, 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC3× · 2017–2020 · $102k · revenue +3%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION INC3× · 2017–2020 · $80k · revenue +141%
- MPMIDTOWN PARTNERS INC3× · 2017–2020 · $72k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -13%
- JSJACKSON STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
To provide comprehensive services to victims of child abuse.
The mission of christian services for children in alabama is to show the love of christ by providing counseling and other related services to children and their families.
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.
The cac provides intervention services for children who are victims of severe abuse and advocacy services to their non offending caregivers. this includes forensic interviews, medical exams, therapy, and prevention education. the cac also…
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
Prevention of child abuse
Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation
Child advocacy services gives voice, healing, and security to children in ten parishes in southeast louisiana through its casa program, children's advocacy program, and prevention education.
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.
Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…
To provide a safe caring place to evaluate any child who may have been abused
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clinton Community Christian Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 OPERATION SHOESTRING INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds CLINTON COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CORP ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIANS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON COUNTIANS ALLIED AGAINST POVERTY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Ergon Foundation Inc · Regions Foundation · His Way Inc · Mississippi Food Network 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 the Capital Area 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.