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United Way of the Coastal Empire

UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE's mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring powers of communities.

$4.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
—
States reached
$3.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$13MPhilanthropy$6.9MHuman Services$4.6MHealth$2.8MYouth Development$1.5MFood & Nutrition$1.4MArts & Culture$1.2MHousing & Shelter$1.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,100,000
Median grant
—
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FUND ALLOCATIONS$3,100,000
DESIGNATED FUNDS$1,187,656
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SENIOR CITIZENS: $254k → 16%SENIOR CITIZENS: $254k → 16%COASTAL COALITION FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 14%SENIOR CITIZENS: $254k → 16%SENIOR CITIZENS: $135k → 16%GREENBRIAR CHILDREN'S CENTER: $116k → 16%SENIOR CITIZENS: $102k → 16%GREENBRIAR CHILDREN'S CENTER: $89k → 16%GREENBRIAR CHILDREN'S CENTER: $85k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER SAVANNAH: $55k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER SAVANNAH: $54k → 16%SENIOR CITIZENS: $51k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER SAVANNAH: $50k → 16%GREENBRIAR CHILDREN'S CENTER: $40k → 16%GREENBRIAR CHILDREN'S CENTER: $35k → 16%GREENBRIAR CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER SAVANNAH: $8k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER SAVANNAH: $6k → 16%YMCA OF COASTAL GEORGIA: $80k → 16%YMCA OF COASTAL GEORGIA: $78k → 16%THE BETHESDA UNION SOCIETY OF SAVAN: $75k → 16%YMCA OF COASTAL GEORGIA: $71k → 16%THE BETHESDA UNION SOCIETY OF SAVAN: $68k → 16%YMCA OF COASTAL GEORGIA: $41k → 16%THE BETHESDA UNION SOCIETY OF SAVAN: $39k → 16%COASTAL CENTER DEVELOP: $36k → 16%COASTAL CENTER DEVELOP: $36k → 16%COASTAL CENTER DEVELOP: $36k → 16%YMCA OF COASTAL GEORGIA: $21k → 16%ABILITIES UNLIMITED: $18k → 16%ABILITIES UNLIMITED: $15k → 16%ABILITIES UNLIMITED: $15k → 16%COASTAL CENTER DEVELOP: $9k → 16%YMCA OF COASTAL GEORGIA: $7k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTERS: $252k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTERS: $251k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTERS: $250k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTERS: $102k → 16%NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT: $36k → 16%NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT: $25k → 16%NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT: $25k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTERS: $7k → 16%WESLEY COMM-LADY B DAY CARE: $101k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MA
NV
PA
CA
GA
TX
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35M · 76 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

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

76
17

Total granted

$35M
$394k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+34%

Still filing today

82%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.4M · revenue +10%
  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZENS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.1M · revenue +36%
  • WC
    WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTERS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $963k · revenue +10% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • JE
    JEWISH EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE OF SAVANNAH GEORGIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $79k · revenue +113%
  • RH
    REED HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $51k
  • NS
    NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF GA
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -50%
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.

1
Dougherty County Casa Inc

Dougherty County CASA, Inc. supports children who have experienced abuse or neglect by providing specially trained community volunteers to advocate for their best interests -- promoting their safety, stability, and permanent connections to…

Civil Rights
2
Georgia Agape Inc

Georgia agape's mission is to provide professional social services as a compassionate christian outreach to children and families in order to enhance their prospects for a better and brighter future.

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3
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
4
Southwest Georgia Children's Alliance Inc

Southwest georgia children's alliance, inc. is a nonprofit corporation organized under the georgia nonprofit corporation act, having for its principal purpose is to be the prominent regional collaborative community resource for children…

Crime & Legal
5
Child Enrichment Inc

To provide and coordinate comprehensive intervention, stabilization, & advocacy & prevention in the best interests of abused, neglected & sexually abused children.

Crime & Legal
6
Tifton Judicial Circuit Shelter Inc

To end domestic and sexual violence, as well as child sexual and physical abuse, through a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to investigations, advocacy, and support, while working in the community to change attitudes, beliefs and…

Human Services
7
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
8
Community Housing Services Agency Inc

As a community development financial institution ("cdfi"), and administrators of the savannah affordable housing fund ("sahf"), chsa provides financing and technical assistance to individuals and businesses. (continued at schedule…

Housing & Shelter
9
Family Connection Communities in School of Berrien County Inc

The entity is dedicated to coordinating human services and delivering them to children and youth in berrien county, georgia and to their families through the supportive environment of the public school or alternate education sites, the…

Education
10
Safe Harbor Center Inc

Safe Harbor's mission is to provide services that promote security and stability for at-risk families, children and individuals.

Human Services
11
Family Crisis Center of Walker Dade Catoosa& Chattooga Coinc

The purpose and object of this organization shall be to provide temporary refuge or shelter, counseling and referral services as appropriate to assist victims of domestic or family violence.

Human Services
12
Inner City Night Shelter Inc

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

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Citizens Inc; the most unlike its peers is Eastside Concerned Citizens 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

79 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. 79 of the 95 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/79
Grantees still filing
56/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FUND ALLOCATION: $6,992,405 · OtherCOMMUNITY FUND ALLOCATIONDESIGNATED FUNDS: $6,369,886 · OtherDESIGNATED FUNDSCOMMUNITY SERVICE FUND ALLOCATION: $4,974,975 · OtherCOMMUNITY SERVICE FUND ALLOCATIONCOMMUNITY FUND ALLOCATIONS: $3,100,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FUND ALLOCATIONS+47 more: $7,048,855 · Other+47 moreSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $1,050,294 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZ…WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $962,694 · Human ServicesWESLEY COMMU…SAFE SHELTER CENTER FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INC: $537,530 · Human ServicesSAFE SHELTER…GREENBRIAR CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $374,406 · Human ServicesGREENBRIAR C…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $297,520 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS C…HOSPICE SAVANNAH INC: $194,840 · Human ServicesBETHESDA UNION SOCIETY OF SAVANNAH: $182,635 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE INC: $173,075 · Human Services+8 more: $508,365 · Human Services+8 moreUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE: $1,442,732 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY INC: $147,163 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $124,573 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC: $97,729 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY COUNTY MANNA HOUSE: $86,500 · Philanthropy+3 more: $47,286 · PhilanthropyMARY'S PLACE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE INC: $459,079 · HealthJC LEWIS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENT: $454,668 · HealthMEDBANK FOUNDATION INC: $223,098 · HealthSAVANNAH ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $186,214 · HealthFAITH EQUESTRIAN THERAPEUTIC CENTER INC: $144,497 · HealthREED HOUSE INC: $51,163 · HealthSAVANNAH SPEECH & HEARING CENTER INC: $596,155 · EducationSAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $255,750 · EducationTHE MATTHEW REARDON CENTER FOR AUTISM INC: $48,000 · EducationTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $41,000 · Education+1 more: $25,000 · EducationTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC: $459,000 · Arts & CultureDEEP CENTER INCORPORATED: $168,500 · Arts & CultureSAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION: $67,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF GA: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSAVANNAH CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC: $27,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $37,500 · Arts & CultureUNION MISSION INC: $734,365 · Housing & ShelterRECOVERY PLACE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$28,486,121Human Services$4,281,359Philanthropy$1,945,983Health$1,518,719Education$965,905Arts & Culture$810,000Housing & Shelter$764,365

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE: $1,442,732 over 4y, 12% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $1,050,294 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $962,694 over 3y, 29% of budgetUNION MISSION INC: $734,365 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetFRANK CALLEN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $627,258 over 3y, 31% of budgetSAVANNAH SPEECH & HEARING CENTER INC: $596,155 over 3y, 18% of budgetAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $549,969 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society: $548,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetSAFE SHELTER CENTER FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INC: $537,530 over 3y, 14% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE INC: $459,079 over 3y, 23% of budgetTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC: $459,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetJC LEWIS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENT: $454,668 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetGREENBRIAR CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $374,406 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetCONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF THE SAVANNAH AREA INC: $311,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $297,520 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MEDIATION CENTER OF COASTAL EMPIRE INC: $284,800 over 3y, 15% of budgetSAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $255,750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGirl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc: $255,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetROYCE LEARNING CENTER: $251,545 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetMEDBANK FOUNDATION INC: $223,098 over 3y, 28% of budgetCOASTAL GEORGIA COUNCIL INC: $217,933 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetGEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC: $205,366 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetInspiritus Inc: $199,031 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHOSPICE SAVANNAH INC: $194,840 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTH GEORGIA INC: $194,599 over 3y, 13% of budgetSAVANNAH ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $186,214 over 3y, 11% of budgetBETHESDA UNION SOCIETY OF SAVANNAH: $182,635 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE INC: $173,075 over 3y, 19% of budgetDEEP CENTER INCORPORATED: $168,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE INC: $166,918 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPARK PLACE OUTREACHINC: $156,753 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $147,163 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOASTAL CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $144,511 over 3y, 24% of budgetFAITH EQUESTRIAN THERAPEUTIC CENTER INC: $144,497 over 3y, 22% of budgetSTEP UP SAVANNAH INC: $140,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetEMPLOYABILITY INC: $135,837 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $124,573 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHODGE MEMORIAL DAY CARE CENTER: $120,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE KICKLIGHTER RESOURCE CENTER INC: $120,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetMARY LOU FRASER FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES INC: $106,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetBRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC: $104,118 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES OF SAVANNAH INC: $104,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetUNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC: $97,729 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPERFORMANCE INITIATIVES INC: $86,500 over 3y, 21% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $86,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF EFFINGHAM INC: $80,773 over 3y, 31% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE OF SAVANNAH GEORGIA INC: $79,480 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION: $67,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budget
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.

The Savannah Communit…Georgia Power Foundat…International Paper C…The Hodge Foundation …Colonial Foundation I…Courtney Knight Gaine…The Savannah Benevole…John G Kennedy Founda…Savannah Jewish Counc…Communities of Coasta…Tr Uw Charles I BrananThe Blackbaud Giving …
The Savannah Community Foundation IncGA72.9× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · The Hodge Foundation Inc · Colonial Foundation Inc · Courtney Knight Gaines Foundation · The Savannah Benevolent Association · John G Kennedy Foundation Inc · Savannah Jewish Council Inc Dba Savannah Jewish Federation · Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • United Way of Pioneer Valley Inc: 10% of income from government
  • United Way of Palm Beach County Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
32report 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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