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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$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

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%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your 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

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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CA
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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.

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you 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

+41%
+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

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

  • 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%

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.

1
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
2
Inner City Night Shelter Inc

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

Housing & Shelter
3
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
4
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
5
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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6
Goodwill of the Coastal Empire Inc

Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.

Employment
7
United Way of Greater Chattanooga

Uniting people and resources in building a stronger, healthier community

Philanthropy
8
Georgia Agape Inc

The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…

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9
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
10
United Way of Charlotte County Inc

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

Philanthropy
11
Annandale At Suwanee Inc

To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.

Health
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Coastal Empire and the most unlike its peers is Atlantic Area Court Appointed Casa. 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 53 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number29%2%<5yr16%2%5–10yr17%12%10–20yr12%15%20–35yr9%23%35–55yr17%46%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value29%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr17%8%10–20yr12%7%20–35yr9%21%35–55yr17%63%55yr+

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 — 4% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
4/89
the rest of the field
18%
276/1,540

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.

04the grantee network

79 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. 79 of the 95 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/79
Grantees still filing
56/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetTHE KICKLIGHTER RESOURCE CENTER INC — $120,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetHODGE MEMORIAL DAY CARE CENTER — $120,000 over 3y, 11% 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
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 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

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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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