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United Way of the Midlands

United way connects people and resources to improve the quality of life in the midlands.

$7.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it funds
0198% 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$8.8MHuman Services$8.2MEducation$7.2MHousing & Shelter$6.1MHealth$5.0MYouth Development$3.0MPhilanthropy$1.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 36 grants below total $4,680,951, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,267,866 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,586,915 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.0M
$52,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE MIDLANDS$1,278,192
SALVATION ARMY$499,485
MIDLANDS FATHERHOOD COALITION$360,000
MIRCI$360,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE MIDLANDS$292,202
FAIRFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT$250,000
MIDLANDS HOUSING ALLIANCE (TRANSITIONS)$160,000
VITAL CONNECTIONS OF THEMIDLANDS$158,830
UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SC$147,265
HOMELESS NO MORE$114,750
HOMEWORKS OF AMERICA$113,958
BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE$111,000
FREE MEDICAL CLINIC$100,000
CITY YEAR COLUMBIA$85,000
SENIOR RESOURCES$70,720
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WINGS FOR KIDS: $68k → 12%ORANGEBURG COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $25k → 25%WINGS FOR KIDS: $68k → 12%NEWBERRY COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $74k → 17%WINGS FOR KIDS: $50k → 12%NEWBERRY COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $64k → 17%NEWBERRY COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $63k → 17%NEWBERRY COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $58k → 17%SENIOR RESOURCES: $90k → 16%SENIOR RESOURCES: $75k → 16%SENIOR RESOURCES: $71k → 16%GROWING HOMES SOUTHEAST: $40k → 11%SENIOR RESOURCES: $55k → 16%GROWING HOMESOUTHEAST INC: $35k → 11%SENIOR RESOURCES: $55k → 16%SENIOR RESOURCES: $38k → 16%GROWING HOMESOUTHEAST INC: $34k → 11%SENIOR RESOURCES: $35k → 16%LEXINGTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $87k → 11%MISSION LEXINGTON: $85k → 11%LEXINGTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY: $75k → 11%MISSION LEXINGTON: $68k → 11%MISSION LEXINGTON: $58k → 11%MISSION LEXINGTON: $30k → 11%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 16%COLUMBIA URBAN LEAGUE: $50k → 16%HOME WORKS OF AMERICA: $283k → 16%HOMEWORKS OF AMERICA: $114k → 16%VITAL CONNECTIONS OF THE MIDLANDS: $320k → 16%VITAL CONNECTIONS OF THEMIDLANDS: $317k → 16%THE COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $75k → 16%VITAL CONNECTIONS OF THE MIDLANDS: $305k → 16%THE COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $72k → 16%VITAL CONNECTIONS OF THE MIDLANDS: $302k → 16%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $71k → 16%VITAL CONNECTIONS OF THE MIDLANDS: $302k → 16%VITAL CONNECTIONS OF THE MIDLANDS: $190k → 16%VITAL CONNECTIONS OF THEMIDLANDS: $159k → 16%VITAL CONNECTIONS OF THEMIDLANDS: $146k → 16%THE COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $64k → 16%THE COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $60k → 16%VITAL CONNECTIONS OF THEMIDLANDS: $114k → 16%FAMILY CONNECTION OF SC INC: $54k → 16%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $53k → 16%HOME WORKS OF AMERICA: $51k → 16%THE COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $38k → 16%HOME WORKS OF AMERICA INC: $30k → 16%HOME WORKS OF AMERICA INC: $26k → 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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59M · 70 repeat orgs$925k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

70 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
25

Total granted

$59M
$902k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-9%

Still filing today

83%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MH
    Midlands Housing Alliance Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +97%
  • MI
    Mental Illness Recovery Center Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +35%
  • VC
    Vital Connections of the Midlands
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN
    one grant, 2017 · $184k
  • UB
    UNITED BLACK CLERGY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $125k
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF UPSTATEMIDLANDS SOUTH CAROLINA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $95k · revenue +26%
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
Carolina Family Connections

Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.

Human Services
2
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
3
Spartanburg County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

Education
4
Colleton County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

—
5
Chester County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our vision is that every south carolina child will be prepared for success in school.

Education
6
Carolina Childrens Home

The mission of Carolina Children's Home is to meet the under-served mental and physical health needs of children, young adults, and their families

Human Services
7
Marion County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Per south carolina code of laws section 59-152-10: there is established the south carolina first steps to school readiness, a comprehensive, results- oriented initiative for improving early childhood development by providing, through local…

Education
8
South Carolina Legal Services

South carolina legal services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income south carolinians.

Crime & Legal
9
Charleston County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

Education
10
Bamberg County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Section 59-152-10 of the south carolina code established the south carolina first steps to school readiness program, which is a comprehensive, results-oriented initiative for improving early childhood development by providing, through…

Education
11
Beyond Housing

We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…

—
12
Anderson County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas; the most unlike its peers is The Brookland Foundation. 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

77 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. 77 of the 98 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/77
Grantees still filing
41/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $17,293,203 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOMMUNITY PARTNERS OF THE MIDLANDS DBA WELLPARTNERS: $8,379,751 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS OF THE MIDLANDS DBA WELLPARTNERSCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE MIDLANDS INC: $3,422,549 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE MIDLANDS INCMidlands Housing Alliance Inc: $3,306,097 · OtherMidlands Housing Alliance IncTHE SALVATION ARMY: $3,268,260 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYMental Illness Recovery Center Inc: $2,394,448 · OtherBoys and Girls Clubs of the Crescent Region: $2,111,827 · Other+43 more: $5,444,404 · Other+43 moreVital Connections of the Midlands: $2,153,609 · Human ServicesVital Conn…HOME WORKS OF AMERICA INC: $544,158 · Human ServicesHOME WORKS…Senior Resources Inc: $417,888 · Human ServicesSenior Res…MISSION LEXINGTON: $412,164 · Human ServicesMISSION LE…The Cooperative Ministry: $347,189 · Human ServicesThe Cooper…NEWBERRY COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $269,666 · Human ServicesBROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE: $269,180 · Human ServicesWINGS FOR KIDS: $210,000 · Human Services+12 more: $770,185 · Human Services+12 moreHomeless No More Inc: $1,983,140 · Housing & ShelterFairfield County School District Education Foundation: $550,000 · Housing & ShelterOne-Eighty Place: $155,084 · Housing & ShelterMIDLANDS HOUSING TRUST FUND: $110,000 · Housing & ShelterFREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $1,335,342 · HealthFREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF NEWBERRY COUNTY INC: $264,250 · HealthPrisma Health-Midlands: $205,534 · HealthORANGEBURG CALHOUN FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $164,938 · HealthGOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC: $154,370 · Health+2 more: $49,500 · HealthUNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $1,427,659 · PhilanthropyABLE SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $159,366 · PhilanthropyTHE BROOKLAND FOUNDATION: $57,500 · Philanthropy+3 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $1,019,085 · Public Safety & DisasterRichland County Public Library: $555,439 · EducationCALHOUN COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $119,650 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC: $73,625 · EducationLEXINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $60,000 · EducationRICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA: $57,470 · EducationORANGEBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $50,000 · Education+4 more: $70,800 · Education
Other$45,620,539Human Services$5,394,039Housing & Shelter$2,798,224Health$2,173,934Philanthropy$1,694,525Public Safety & Disaster$1,019,085Education$986,984

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE MIDLANDS INC: $3,422,549 over 9y, 35% of budgetMidlands Housing Alliance Inc: $3,306,097 over 9y, 19% of budgetMental Illness Recovery Center Inc: $2,394,448 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetVital Connections of the Midlands: $2,153,609 over 9y, 17% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of the Crescent Region: $2,111,827 over 9y, 89% of budgetHomeless No More Inc: $1,983,140 over 9y, 30% of budgetUNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $1,427,659 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetFREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $1,335,342 over 9y, 6.7% of budgetTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $1,019,085 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES: $563,750 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetRichland County Public Library: $555,439 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFairfield County School District Education Foundation: $550,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetHOME WORKS OF AMERICA INC: $544,158 over 7y, 27% of budgetMidlands Fatherhood Coalition: $512,483 over 4y, 17% of budgetSenior Resources Inc: $417,888 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetMISSION LEXINGTON: $412,164 over 7y, 9.2% of budgetBoys Farm Inc: $382,750 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC: $350,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetThe Cooperative Ministry: $347,189 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetALSTON WILKES SOCIETY: $345,626 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSISTERCARE INC: $285,921 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetNEWBERRY COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $269,666 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetBROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE: $269,180 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetFREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF NEWBERRY COUNTY INC: $264,250 over 9y, 29% of budgetNewberry County Literacy Council: $235,000 over 3y, 84% of budgetWINGS FOR KIDS: $210,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetPrisma Health-Midlands: $205,534 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetORANGEBURG CALHOUN FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $164,938 over 9y, 13% of budgetABLE SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $159,366 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $156,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOne-Eighty Place: $155,084 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC: $154,370 over 8y, 11% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS: $147,906 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetFAMILY SHELTER INC: $140,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetTHE SAMARITAN HOUSE OF ORANGEBURG COUNTY INC: $134,249 over 3y, 11% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER COLUMBIA INC: $130,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetCALHOUN COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $119,650 over 7y, 10% of budgetCENTRAL SC HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $117,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetEDISTO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $112,500 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetORANGEBURG COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $111,666 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetINDIAN WATERS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $110,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMIDLANDS HOUSING TRUST FUND: $110,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetGROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INC: $109,297 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF UPSTATEMIDLANDS SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $95,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $73,625 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Columbia Urban League Inc: $72,746 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetLutheran Family Services in the Carolinas: $69,877 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLEXINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $60,000 over 5y, 2.7% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE MIDLANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Midlands Housing Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds Mental Illness Recovery Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Vital Connections of the Midlands ↗
  • Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of the Crescent Region ↗
  • Who funds Homeless No More Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds PALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Richland County Public Library ↗
  • Who funds Fairfield County School District Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HOME WORKS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Midlands Fatherhood Coalition ↗
  • Who funds Senior Resources Inc ↗
  • Who funds MISSION LEXINGTON ↗
  • Who funds Boys Farm Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Cooperative Ministry ↗
  • Who funds ALSTON WILKES SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SISTERCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEWBERRY COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF NEWBERRY COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Newberry County Literacy Council ↗
  • Who funds WINGS FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds Prisma Health-Midlands ↗
  • Who funds ORANGEBURG CALHOUN FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds ABLE SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds One-Eighty Place ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHY LEARNERS ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗

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.

Central Carolina Community FoundationSC107× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Lipscomb Family Foundation · United Way Association of South Carolina Inc · Prisma Health · Junior League of Columbia Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Nord Family Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · South Carolina Physicians Care Charity Inc · Michael J Mungo 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 Midlands funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of the Midlands. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
21report 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 98 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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