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United Way of the Mid South

The mission of United Way is to improve the quality of life for Mid- Southerners by mobilizing and aligning community resources to address priority issues.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$237k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$27MHealth$13MYouth Development$7.3MEducation$3.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.8MCrime & Legal$1.8MPhilanthropy$1.7MReligion$817kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 55 grants below total $2,684,085 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,864,361 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $180,276 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $503k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $2.1M
$26,262
Median grant
2
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Meritan$237,070
Porter-Leath Children's Center$209,552
Knowledge Quest$163,563
Boys and Girls Club of Memphis$159,512
Salvation Army$138,039
Alpha Omega Veterans Services$131,839
Memphis Public Interest Law$127,056
American Red Cross Mid South Chapt$108,213
Goodwill Homes Community Services$95,456
Grace House of Memphis Inc$91,571
YMCA of Memphis and the Mid-South$89,220
Alliance Heathcare Services$86,356
Hope House$82,064
Memphis Crisis Center$69,575
Memphis Child Advocacy Center$68,171
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 (FY17–25, $19.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE BADDOUR CENTER: $93k → 19%YOUTH VILLAGES: $1.3M → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $1.3M → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $1.2M → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $1.2M → 17%MERITAN INC: $577k → 17%MERITAN INC: $508k → 17%MERITAN INC: $495k → 17%MERITAN: $464k → 17%MERITAN: $382k → 17%MERITAN: $378k → 17%MERITAN: $373k → 17%MERITAN: $291k → 17%Meritan: $237k → 17%YMCA OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH: $428k → 17%YMCA OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH: $420k → 17%YMCA OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH: $409k → 17%YMCA OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH: $382k → 17%YMCA OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH: $257k → 17%YMCA OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH: $138k → 17%YMCA OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH: $137k → 17%YMCA OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH: $135k → 17%YMCA of Memphis and the Mid-South: $89k → 17%SHELBY RESIDENTIAL AND VOC SERVICE: $142k → 17%SHELBY RESIDENTIAL AND VOC SERVICE: $133k → 17%SHELBY RESIDENTIAL AND VOC SERVICE: $131k → 17%SHELBY RESIDENTIAL AND VOC SERVICE: $107k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS MID SOUTH CHAPT: $464k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS MID SOUTH CHAPTER: $456k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS MID SOUTH CHAPT: $454k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS MID SOUTH CHAPT: $393k → 17%MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $203k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS MID SOUTH CHAPT: $172k → 17%MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $172k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS MID SOUTH CHAPT: $169k → 17%MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $167k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS MID SOUTH CHAPT: $148k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS MID SOUTH CHAPT: $144k → 17%MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE: $138k → 17%American Red Cross Mid South Chapt: $108k → 17%HOPE HOUSE: $107k → 17%MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE: $106k → 17%HOPE HOUSE: $105k → 17%HOPE HOUSE: $105k → 17%MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE: $98k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITITES OF WEST TN: $96k → 17%HOPE HOUSE: $95k → 17%YWCA OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $268k → 17%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

NY
MA
CA
MO
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
MS
GA
FL

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$55M · 132 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

132 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 82 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

132
103

Total granted

$55M
$6.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+22%

Still filing today

89%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k 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 ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther

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

  • YOUTH VILLAGES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +140%
  • YO
    YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +178%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • GU
    GRANTS UNDER 5000
    one grant, 2018 · $2.9M
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $523k
  • SR
    SHELBY RESIDENTIAL AND VOC SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $216k

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
One Family Memphis
Human Services
2
Mental Health Cooperative Inc

Mental health cooperative inc. (mhc) provides integrated health services that include behavioral health care, primary health care, addiction services, and community-based care management. mhc also provides emergency psychiatric services…

Health
3
Mayor's Institute for Excellence in Government Inc

Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee

Public Benefit
4
The Meadows Housing Corporation Inc

To provide housing and services to low, very low, and extremely low income families.

Housing & Shelter
5
Memphis Tomorrow

Memphis tomorrow is an association of ceos of memphis' largest businesses working to promote opportunity and quality of life for all memphians through collective action and public-private partnerships.

Community Improvement
6
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
7
Children's Foundation of Memphis
Health
8
Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce

To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.

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9
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
10
Mississippi Methodist Hospital Rehabilitation Center Inc

In response to the love of god, the methodist rehabilitation center, is dedicated to the restoration and enhancement of the lives of those we serve. we are committed to excellence and leadership in the delivery of comprehensive…

Health
11
Warriors Center Memphis

Warriors Center Memphis is dedicated to assisting men overcome issues related to substance abuse and/or homelessness. We meet the needs of men such as clothing, shelter, education, job training and rehabilitation.

Housing & Shelter
12
Memphis Center for Independent Living

Advocate, educate and unite communities

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach and the most unlike its peers is Freeman Outreach Center. 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 39 years old; the field is 31. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%1%<5yr11%4%5–10yr13%11%10–20yr11%26%20–35yr7%32%35–55yr41%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr11%0%5–10yr13%2%10–20yr11%10%20–35yr7%40%35–55yr41%47%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/193
the rest of the field
14%
1,713/12,309

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

178 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. 178 of the 243 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
171/178
Grantees still filing
110/178
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YOUTH VILLAGES INC — $5,069,224 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INCMERITAN INC — $3,703,316 · Human ServicesMERITAN INCYMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH — $2,771,720 · Human ServicesYMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTHAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,507,269 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Const…GOODWILL HOMES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $1,827,160 · Human ServicesGOODWILL HOMES COMMUNITY SERVICES INCMEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC — $1,088,835 · Human Services+26 more — $4,634,622 · Human Services+26 morePORTER-LEATH — $3,412,899 · OtherPORTER-LEATHGRANTS UNDER 5000 — $2,923,926 · OtherGRANTS UNDER 5000THE SALVATION ARMY — $2,359,546 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYGrace House of Memphis Tennessee — $1,160,058 · OtherGrace House of Memphis TennesseeMEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $855,632 · OtherASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF MEMPHIS — $827,572 · OtherHARWOOD CENTER INC — $723,434 · Other+99 more — $8,566,851 · Other+99 moreALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC — $1,935,137 · HealthALPHA OMEGA VETE…Alliance Health Services Inc — $1,226,246 · HealthAlliance Health …MEMPHIS RECOVERY CENTERS INC — $1,203,284 · HealthMEMPHIS RECOVERY…SUICIDE & CRISIS INTERVENTION SVC — $818,489 · HealthSUICIDE & CRISIS…CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC — $609,821 · HealthCHURCH HEALTH CE…Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals — $558,787 · HealthMethodist Health…The Synergy Foundation Incorporated — $480,475 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $442,245 · HealthLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation — $388,229 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center — $359,905 · Health+13 more — $1,226,128 · Health+13 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS — $2,545,730 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC — $2,386,792 · Youth DevelopmentKNOWLEDGE …GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF THE SOUTH — $757,001 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUT…+3 more — $44,870 · Youth DevelopmentMEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $1,069,383 · Crime & LegalKindred Place Inc — $896,052 · Crime & LegalHealing Hearts Child Advocacy Center — $138,163 · Crime & LegalMEMPHIS PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER — $127,056 · Crime & Legal+3 more — $113,036 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC — $708,968 · PhilanthropyCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS — $664,565 · Philanthropy+6 more — $125,489 · PhilanthropyMEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $483,478 · EducationMADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED — $216,819 · EducationDESOTO COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION — $207,923 · EducationFAYETTE COUNTY SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $87,366 · EducationFAYETTE LITERACY — $69,795 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MEMPHIS — $53,562 · EducationFISK UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · Education+11 more — $230,616 · Education
Human Services$21,602,146Other$20,829,918Health$9,248,746Youth Development$5,734,393Crime & Legal$2,343,690Philanthropy$1,499,022Education$1,399,559

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $5,069,224 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMERITAN INC — $3,703,316 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetPORTER-LEATH — $3,412,899 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetYMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH — $2,771,720 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS — $2,545,730 over 9y, 11% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,507,269 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKNOWLEDGE QUEST INC — $2,386,792 over 9y, 21% of budgetALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC — $1,935,137 over 9y, 13% of budgetGOODWILL HOMES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $1,827,160 over 9y, 11% of budgetAlliance Health Services Inc — $1,226,246 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMEMPHIS RECOVERY CENTERS INC — $1,203,284 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetGrace House of Memphis Tennessee — $1,160,058 over 9y, 14% of budgetMEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC — $1,088,835 over 9y, 39% of budgetMEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $1,069,383 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetKindred Place Inc — $896,052 over 8y, 11% of budgetMEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $855,632 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetSUICIDE & CRISIS INTERVENTION SVC — $818,489 over 9y, 33% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF THE SOUTH — $757,001 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetHARWOOD CENTER INC — $723,434 over 9y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC — $708,968 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC — $704,569 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS — $664,565 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetShelby Residential & Vocational Services Inc — $641,195 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC — $609,821 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF MEMPHIS — $570,223 over 5y, 18% of budgetMethodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals — $558,787 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS FOR LIFE CORPORATION — $524,535 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetSPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF — $514,552 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetMEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $483,478 over 8y, 11% of budgetThe Synergy Foundation Incorporated — $480,475 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetLATINO MEMPHIS INC — $452,495 over 9y, 7.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $442,245 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC 558 CHICKASAW COUNCIL — $414,611 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation — $388,229 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $359,905 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK — $341,451 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGES USA INC — $333,877 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Memphis Tennessee — $325,169 over 2y, 17% of budgetLITERACY MID-SOUTH INC — $294,142 over 6y, 15% of budgetLowenstein House Inc — $276,496 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association — $267,527 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetSEARCH DOGS SOUTH — $242,309 over 9y, 73% of budgetBAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $225,770 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BADDOUR CENTER INC — $223,373 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetFRAYSER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $218,087 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetMADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED — $216,819 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetFayette Cares Inc — $213,538 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetTHE ARC OF NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI — $209,140 over 8y, 7.8% 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.

  • Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
  • Who funds MERITAN INC ↗
  • Who funds PORTER-LEATH ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC ↗
  • Who funds ALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL HOMES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Alliance Health Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Grace House of Memphis Tennessee ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Kindred Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SUICIDE & CRISIS INTERVENTION SVC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF THE SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds HARWOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds Shelby Residential & Vocational Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF MEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS FOR LIFE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Synergy Foundation Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds LATINO MEMPHIS INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC 558 CHICKASAW COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Christian Community F…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…Jr Hyde III Family Fo…Plough FoundationThe Assisi Foundation…Thomas W Briggs Found…The Urban Child Insti…Baptist Memorial Heal…Women's Foundation fo…Slingshot Memphis IncThomas Garrott Founda…
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN136.7× affinity100 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Plough Foundation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Urban Child Institute · Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation · Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis · Slingshot Memphis Inc · Thomas Garrott Foundation

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 Mid South 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 · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
54report 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 243 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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