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United Way of the Great River Region

In partnership with united way worldwide, improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities to advance the common good.

$97k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0175% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$138kFood & Nutrition$86kCrime & Legal$28kYouth Development$28kOther$0
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $48,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $97,258 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $49,258 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$9,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$537k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOERNER YMCA$10,000
COMMUNITY ACTION OF SE IOWA$10,000
COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL INC$9,000
EMMA CORNELIS HOSPITALITY HOUSE$7,000
FOOD FOR THOUGHTS HANCOCK COUNTY$6,000
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL OF SCOUT$6,000
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 (FY23–23, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%HOERNER YMCA: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL INC: $9k → 14%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.
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$314k · 7 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$314k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+22%

Still filing today

29%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & 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

  • EC
    EMMA CORNELIS HOSPITALITY HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +7% · 36% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    6× · 2017–2022 · $58k
  • FM
    FORT MADISON FOOD PANTRY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $57k

Funded once

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION O
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • CS
    COMMUNITY SERVICE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMMA CORNELIS HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $68,500 · OtherEMMA CORNELIS HOSPITALITY HOUSEIndividual grant recipient: $58,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFORT MADISON FOOD PANTRY: $57,000 · OtherFORT MADISON FOOD PANTRYCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWA: $53,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWAIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHILD ABUSE PREVENTION COUNCIL: $28,000 · OtherCHILD ABUSE PREVENTION COUNCILFOOD FOR THOUGHTS: $14,000 · Other+5 more: $33,500 · Other+5 moreHoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesMISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOOD FOR THOUGHTS HANCOCK COUNTY: $6,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$347,500Human Services$19,000Youth Development$6,000Food & Nutrition$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEMMA CORNELIS HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $68,500 over 8y, 36% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWA: $53,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL INC: $9,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHTS HANCOCK COUNTY: $6,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds EMMA CORNELIS HOSPITALITY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWA ↗
  • Who funds Hoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THOUGHTS HANCOCK COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗

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.

Keokuk Area Community…Amazonsmile Foundation
Keokuk Area Community FoundationIA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Keokuk Area Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 16 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $123k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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