How much did UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2018

donor dessavannaheducationcounselingtogetherchangeshelter

2019

donor dessavannaheducationcounselingsheltercarechildren

2020

—

2021

see attachment

2022

see attached

2023

—

2025

develop

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

03FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,100,000

Median grant

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States reached

$25M

Total assets

Largest grants

COMMUNITY FUND ALLOCATIONS$3,100,000
DESIGNATED FUNDS$1,187,656

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 (FY17–19, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 12%. 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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$27M · 76 repeat orgs$7.0M to everyone else

76 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 75 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$27M

$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+32%

Still filing today

83%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthEducationCrime & LegalOther

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

UP
UWCE PROGRAM DESIGNATIONS
4× · 2017–2020 · $1.4M · revenue +10%
SC
SENIOR CITIZENS
3× · 2017–2019 · $1.1M · revenue +37%
WC
WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTERS
3× · 2017–2019 · $963k · revenue +10% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

CF
COMMUNITY FUND ALLOCATION
one grant, 2023 · $3.5M
SJ
SAVANNAH JEWISH FEDERATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $79k · revenue +97%
RH
REED HOUSE INC
one grant, 2017 · $51k

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.

Georgia Center for Child Advocacy Inc

The Georgia center for child advocacy's mission is to champion the needs of sexually and severely physically abused children through prevention, intervention, therapy, and collaboration.

Human Services

Georgia Court Appointed Special

develops and supports court-sanctioned, community-based affiliate programs that provide trained and supervised volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children involved in juvenile court dependency proceedings.

Civil Rights

Goodwill of the Coastal Empire Inc

At goodwill of the coastal empire (dba goodwill southeast georgia), we believe every individual should be given the opportunity to achieve their full potential through the dignity and power of work.

Employment

Inner City Night Shelter Inc

A non-profit corporation that provides shelter for homeless men and women in savannah, ga.

Housing & Shelter

United Way of Charlotte County Inc

Mobilizing the power of our community to break the cycle of poverty.

Philanthropy

The Glynn Community Crisis Center Inc

Providing emergency shelter and other services to persons battered and or abused, commonly referred to as domestic violence.

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United Way of Coastal Carolina Inc

The united way of coastal carolina, inc. strives to meet the current and emerging human needs in craven, carteret, jones, and pamlico counties by mobilizing the resources of community organizations, agencies, recipients, and volunteers.

Philanthropy

South Carolina Network of Children's

To support, develop and expand children's advocacy centers in south carolina scncac believes that all children in sc should have access to children's advocacy center services if they need them.

Youth Development

United Way of Southeast Georgia

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities.

Philanthropy

Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

Georgia Center for Opportunity (GCO) is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.

Education

The Creative Coast Inc

To nurture the members of the savannah community engaged in creative or innovative endeavors and to cultivate an environment in which they can thrive.

Community Improvement

Community Housing Services Agency Inc

To develop, implement and operate various affordable housing programs in chatham county, ga.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Savannah Speech & Hearing and the most unlike its peers is Antique Automobile Club. 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 54 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/89

the rest of the field

15%

224/1,540

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

78 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)

72/78

Grantees still filing

54/78

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$23,646,439Human Services$4,281,359Philanthropy$1,945,983Health$1,518,719Education$965,905Arts & Culture$810,000Housing & Shelter$764,365

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.

The Savannah Community FoundationGA96.9× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Savannah Community Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · The Hodge Foundation Inc · Courtney Knight Gaines Foundation · John G Kennedy Foundation Inc · The Dunn Foundation · Savannah Jewish Council Inc · Colonial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater · Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc · Communities of Coastal Georgia

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 COASTAL EMPIRE 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely 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: FAMILY PROMISE OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 462846593 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 FAMILY PROMISE OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 31% of their budget — diversified.
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 Coastal Empire?

Find your warmest path to United Way of the Coastal Empire 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 COASTAL EMPIRE

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

78 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 Coastal Empire?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE

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

78 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 Coastal Empire?

More from the funding graph