How much does United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc give?

United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc reported 26 grants totaling $4,300,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (34%), Human Services (26%), Health (15%).

Who are United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Easter Seals West Georgia Inc ($5.2M), Boys & Girls Clubs of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc ($4.9M), Girls Incorporated of Columbus and Phenix-Russell ($3.7M).

Does United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc, Georgia Power Foundation Inc, Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc.

Where is United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc based?

United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc is based in GA.

United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc

United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc

The mission of united way is to lead and unite our community resources in transforming lives.

$4.3M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$607k

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.

Youth Development$14MHuman Services$11MHealth$6.2MFood & Nutrition$3.3MHousing & Shelter$3.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.8MReligion$1.3MCrime & Legal$881kOther$0

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $9k
$10k–50k6 grants · $141k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.9M
$250k+5 grants · $2.2M

$140,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY	$607,000
EASTER SEALS OF WEST GEORGIA INC	$565,000
FEEDING THE VALLEY INC	$385,000
GIRLS INC OF COLUMBUS AND PHENIX CITYRUSSELL CO	$377,500
HOPE HARBOUR (COLUMBUS ALLIANCE FOR BATTERED WOMEN)	$272,000
YMCA OF METROPOLITAN COLUMBUS	$243,000
MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS	$220,000
HOUSE OF TIME INC	$210,000
SAFEHOUSE MINISTRIES	$170,000
CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA	$162,000
TWIN CEDARS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC	$157,200
OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INC	$141,300
SALVATION ARMY	$140,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF HISTORIC GEORGIA	$136,000
RUSSELL COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC	$88,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

$42M · 28 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$42M

$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+94%

Still filing today

89%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationEmploymentFood & NutritionOther

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

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EASTER SEALS WEST GEORGIA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +62%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +32%
FT
Feeding the Valley Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +836%

Funded once

CC
COLUMBUS COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue +52% · 45% of their budget
SK
SAFE KIDS OF GEORGIA INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +115%
ES
ENRICHMENT SERVICES PROGRAMINCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +94%

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.

Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia Inc

Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.

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Community Shelter Board

The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

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Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc

To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.

Human Services

The Women's Clinic of Columbus

Women's health clinic focusing on helping at-risk parents deal with issues related to prenancy and parenting.

Health

Columbus Housing Initiative Inc

Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing

Housing & Shelter

Creative Community Services Inc

Creative community services (ccs) improves the quality of life for children teens and adults with developmental disabilities and mental health needs, and their families, by providing direct services and community-based support throughout…

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Columbus Regional Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence

To work towards the prevention and elimination of domestic and dating violence.

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Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…

Civil Rights

Communities in Schools of Central Georgia Inc

Communities In Schools surrounds students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and acheive in life. Our goal is to support youth, improve graduation rates, academic acheivement and job and post-secondary school…

Education

Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia Inc

To promote, assist and support the development, growth & continuation of children's advocacy centers in the state of Georgia.

Crime & Legal

Central Georgia Casa Inc

Central georgia casa provides high quality volunteer advocacy to child victims of abuse and neglect who have been adjudicated dependent by the juvenile court and placed in foster care. providing this high-quality volunteer advocacy…

Civil Rights

Atlanta Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Atlanta Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc.'s mission: To educate the community and to recruit, train and supervise court appointed volunteers to advocate for the best interest, safety and permanent placement of abused and neglected…

Civil Rights

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pastoral Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Urban League of Greater Columbus Inc. 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

35 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. 35 of the 38 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/35

Grantees still filing

26/35

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$12,729,926Youth Development$9,440,449Human Services$6,378,213Employment$5,190,000Health$3,952,132Food & Nutrition$3,310,000Religion$1,159,682

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

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.

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.

Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley IncGA58.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · The Jordan Foundation Inc · WL Amos Sr Foundation Inc co William L Amos III · McClure Family Foundation Inc Co Truist Foundations & Endowments Spec · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Lipham Foundation Inc

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 the Chattahoochee Valley Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report 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.

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