· Public charity
United Way of the Midlands
United way connects people and resources to improve the quality of life in the midlands.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+6 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MHMidlands Housing Alliance Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +97%
- MIMental Illness Recovery Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +35%
- VCVital Connections of the Midlands9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +28%
Funded once
- COCHURCH OF THE BRETHRENone grant, 2017 · $184k
- UBUNITED BLACK CLERGY INCone grant, 2017 · $125k
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF UPSTATEMIDLANDS SOUTH CAROLINA INCgraduatedone 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.
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.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
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How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
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.
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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