How much does United Way of the Ocoee Region give?

United Way of the Ocoee Region reported 26 grants totaling $1,638,630 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of the Ocoee Region fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Health (28%), Youth Development (17%).

Who are United Way of the Ocoee Region's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Karis Community Health ($3.1M), The Caring Place ($1.6M), City Fields ($1.4M).

Does United Way of the Ocoee Region fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is United Way of the Ocoee Region based?

United Way of the Ocoee Region is based in TN.

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Tennessee · Public charity

United Way of the Ocoee Region

To be a community-based organization that leads the efforts in identifying community needs, facilitating collaboration, and maximizing resources to positively impact our community and surrounding areas.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 26
Grants FY2025: 28
Organizations funded FY2024: 18%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $380,000
Organizations funded a year: 20 to 30; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $34M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations United Way of the Ocoee Region funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	26	$1.6M	0%
FY2024	28	$1.8M	18%
FY2023	24	$1.7M	54%
FY2022	27	$2.0M	11%
FY2021	26	$1.5M	12%
FY2020	28	$1.4M	14%
FY2019	30	$2.1M	17%
FY2018	20	$1.6M	15%

96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$4.3MHealth$4.2MYouth Development$2.6MCommunity Improvement$1.4MHousing & Shelter$967kCrime & Legal$700kEducation$290kEnvironment$284kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Karis Community Health	$3,105,856	8	87%
The Caring Place	$1,643,904	9	29%
City Fields	$1,382,723	9	59%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Ocoee Region	$938,574	8	5%
Legal Aid of East Tennessee	$485,764	9	1%
Foundation House Ministries	$317,669	7	90%
Cleveland Emergency Shelter Inc	$306,120	5	48%
Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Chattanooga	$288,000	3	0%
Habitat for Humanity	$267,771	4	49%
Family Resource Agency Inc	$258,447	3	1%

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All grantees of United Way of the Ocoee Region by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Karis Community Health	$3,105,856	8	87%
The Caring Place	$1,643,904	9	29%
City Fields	$1,382,723	9	59%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Ocoee Region	$938,574	8	5%
Legal Aid of East Tennessee	$485,764	9	1%
Foundation House Ministries	$317,669	7	90%
Cleveland Emergency Shelter Inc	$306,120	5	48%
Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Chattanooga	$288,000	3	0%
Habitat for Humanity	$267,771	4	49%
Family Resource Agency Inc	$258,447	3	1%
Ludic Spectrum Center Inc	$254,937	6	41%
Cleveland State Community College	$250,000	1	n/a
Bradley Cleveland Public Education Foundation	$206,000	3	12%
On Point	$189,145	8	5%
Cherokee Area Council Incorporated Boy Scouts of America	$171,880	3	3%
Ocoee Outreach Inc	$155,109	9	18%
Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland Inc	$145,000	3	2%
The Health Opportunity Protection & Encouragement Center Inc	$136,000	3	4%
Casa of Bradley County Tennessee	$132,403	3	32%
Family Cornerstones Inc	$105,000	5	20%
Family Promise of Bradley County	$90,000	3	16%
Cleveland Lions Club	$87,050	6	n/a
Centerstone of America Inc	$68,630	3	0%
CareEQUIP	$67,931	5	19%
Lee University	$52,613	3	0%
Walter E Boehm Birth Defects Center Inc	$43,000	3	8%
Bradley Prevention Coalition Inc	$42,400	2	8%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Ch	$40,000	2	1%
Living Water Missions International	$37,000	3	10%
The Speech and Hearing Center	$36,888	4	1%
Free 2 Fly Inc	$32,287	2	4%
New Hope Pregnancy Care Center	$32,000	3	2%
Medical Foundation of Chattanooga Inc	$31,500	3	1%
Woodsong Forest Education Foundation	$30,000	1	5%
New Life Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Museum & Cultural Center at 5ive Points	$13,300	2	2%
A Step Ahead Foundation Chattanooga Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Nurture the Next Fka Prevent Child Abuse Tennessee	$10,000	1	0%

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.3M), not named here.

United Way of the Ocoee Region supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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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.

Tucker FoundationTN26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tucker Foundation · Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · George R Johnson Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Chattanooga · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · The Bob & Susan Card Charitable Foundation · The McReynolds Family Foundation · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie 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.

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About United Way of the Ocoee Region

How much does United Way of the Ocoee Region give?: United Way of the Ocoee Region reported 26 grants totaling $1,638,630 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does United Way of the Ocoee Region fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Health (28%), Youth Development (17%).
Who are United Way of the Ocoee Region's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Karis Community Health ($3.1M), The Caring Place ($1.6M), City Fields ($1.4M).
Does United Way of the Ocoee Region fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of the Ocoee Region?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tucker Foundation, Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County, The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc.
Where is United Way of the Ocoee Region based?: United Way of the Ocoee Region is based in TN.