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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 FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$380k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $390k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $855k
  • $250k+1 grant · $380k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KARIS COMMUNITY HEALTH$380,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE REGION$236,000
THE CARING PLACE$173,500
CITY FIELDS$150,000
FAMILY RESOURCE AGENCY$85,000
YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA$80,000
BRADLEY CLEVELAND PUBLIC$68,000
LEGAL AID OF EAST TN$62,000
THE HOPE CENTER INC$48,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$45,000
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADV$45,000
CENTERSTONE OF TENNESSEE INC$34,630
BRADLEY PREVENTION COALITION$20,000
OCOEE OUTREACH$20,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA$20,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY RESOURCE AGENCY: $100k → 13%FAMILY RESOURCE AGENCY: $85k → 13%FAMILY RESOURCE AGENCY: $38k → 13%FAMILY RESOURCE AGENCY: $35k → 13%THE CARING PLACE: $425k → 13%THE CARING PLACE: $177k → 13%THE CARING PLACE: $174k → 13%THE CARING PLACE: $166k → 13%THE CARING PLACE: $163k → 13%THE CARING PLACE: $106k → 13%THE CARING PLACE: $100k → 13%THE CARING PLACE: $90k → 13%THE CARING PLACE: $84k → 13%THE CARING PLACE: $81k → 13%THE CARING PLACE: $45k → 13%THE CARING PLACE: $34k → 13%FOUNDATION HOUSE: $20k → 13%FOUNDATION HOUSE: $15k → 13%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 52 repeat orgs$651k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
20

Total granted

$16M
$651k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

62%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • KC
    KARIS COMMUNITY HEALTH
    8× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +129% · 87% of their budget
  • TC
    THE CARING PLACE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +326% · 29% of their budget
  • CF
    CITY FIELDS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue ×31 · 59% of their budget

Funded once

  • CS
    CLEVELAND STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $250k
  • L
    LUDIC
    one grant, 2017 · $68k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $59k
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
Tennessee Children's Home Inc

Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…

Human Services
2
Casa of the Tennessee Heartland Inc

Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.

Civil Rights
3
The Child Advocacy Center of Anderson Co Tn

To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.

Human Services
4
Greater Chattanooga Christian Services Inc

Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling

Human Services
5
Child Advocacy Center of Cullman Inc

Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation

Human Services
6
Family Counseling Center of Middle Tennessee Inc

To provide quality, affordable counseling to families and individuals.

Recreation & Sports
7
Court Appointed Special Advocates

To be the voice for children who have been victims of abuse and/or neglect. Our vision is to serve every child in the Cheaha Region by providing them with a caring and competent trained volunteer.

Crime & Legal
8
Hope House of Tennessee Inc

By creating a safe and structured two year residential program the Hope House of Tennessee will aim to equip and empower personal and educational growth economic self-sufficiency and a deeper understanding of Christs unconditional love.

Housing & Shelter
9
Williamson County Casa Inc

The organization advocates for abused or neglected children. they make recommendations to the court on permament living arrangements andcommunicating with the child ensuring that their interests are being met.

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10
Casa of Robertson County Inc

To provide court-appointed special advocates to child victims of abuse and neglect. The programs vision is a safe, permanent, loving home for every child it serves.

Human Services
11
Volunteer Behavioral Health Care System

Provide behavioral health services to clients located in middle and east tennessee

Health
12
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Resource Agency Inc; the most unlike its peers is CareEQUIP. 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

35 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. 35 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE: $1,450,020 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEEBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE REGION: $938,574 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE REGIONCLEVELAND FAMILY YMCA: $694,210 · OtherCLEVELAND FAMILY YMCAFAMILY VIOLENCE SHELTER: $519,846 · OtherFAMILY VIOLENCE SHELTERLEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE: $485,764 · OtherLEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEEBRADCLEV COMMUNITY SERVICES: $435,326 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $329,724 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA: $288,000 · Other+42 more: $3,055,613 · Other+42 moreKARIS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $3,105,856 · HealthKARIS COMMUNITY HEALTHON POINT: $189,145 · HealthON POINT+5 more: $218,561 · Health+5 moreTHE CARING PLACE: $1,643,904 · Human ServicesTHE CARING PLA…FOUNDATION HOUSE MINISTRIES: $317,669 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION HOU…FAMILY RESOURCE AGENCY INC: $258,447 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESOURC…CITY FIELDS: $1,382,723 · Community ImprovementCITY FIEL…+1 more: $42,400 · Community ImprovementCLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC: $306,120 · Housing & ShelterOCOEE OUTREACH INC: $155,109 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CLEVELAND INC: $145,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE HEALTH OPPORTUNITY PROTECTION & ENCOURAGEMENT CENTER INC: $136,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF BRADLEY COUNTY: $90,000 · Housing & ShelterLUDIC SPECTRUM CENTER INC: $254,937 · EducationBRADLEY CLEVELAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $206,000 · EducationWoodsong Forest Education Foundation: $30,000 · EducationCASA OF BRADLEY COUNTY TENNESSEE: $132,403 · Crime & LegalNURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$8,197,077Health$3,513,562Human Services$2,220,020Community Improvement$1,425,123Housing & Shelter$832,229Education$490,937Crime & Legal$142,403

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 budgetKARIS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $3,105,856 over 8y, 87% of budgetTHE CARING PLACE: $1,643,904 over 9y, 29% of budgetCITY FIELDS: $1,382,723 over 9y, 59% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE REGION: $938,574 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetLEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE: $485,764 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetFOUNDATION HOUSE MINISTRIES: $317,669 over 7y, 90% of budgetCLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC: $306,120 over 5y, 48% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA: $288,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHabitat for Humanity: $267,771 over 4y, 49% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE AGENCY INC: $258,447 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLUDIC SPECTRUM CENTER INC: $254,937 over 6y, 41% of budgetBRADLEY CLEVELAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $206,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetON POINT: $189,145 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetCHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $171,880 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetOCOEE OUTREACH INC: $155,109 over 9y, 18% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CLEVELAND INC: $145,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE HEALTH OPPORTUNITY PROTECTION & ENCOURAGEMENT CENTER INC: $136,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCASA OF BRADLEY COUNTY TENNESSEE: $132,403 over 3y, 32% of budgetFamily Cornerstones Inc: $105,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF BRADLEY COUNTY: $90,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetCENTERSTONE OF AMERICA INC: $68,630 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCareEQUIP: $67,931 over 5y, 19% of budgetLEE UNIVERSITY: $52,613 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWALTER E BOEHM BIRTH DEFECTS CENTER INC: $43,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetBRADLEY PREVENTION COALITION INC: $42,400 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CH: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLIVING WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $37,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetTHE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER: $36,888 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFREE 2 FLY INC: $32,287 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetNEW HOPE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $32,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMEDICAL FOUNDATION OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $31,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWoodsong Forest Education Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER AT 5IVE POINTS: $13,300 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE: $10,000 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 KARIS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds THE CARING PLACE ↗
  • Who funds CITY FIELDS ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE REGION ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA ↗
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds LUDIC SPECTRUM CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BRADLEY CLEVELAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ON POINT ↗
  • Who funds CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds OCOEE OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CLEVELAND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HEALTH OPPORTUNITY PROTECTION & ENCOURAGEMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF BRADLEY COUNTY TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds Family Cornerstones Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BRADLEY COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CENTERSTONE OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds CareEQUIP ↗
  • Who funds LEE UNIVERSITY ↗

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 FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Community Foundat…George R Johnson Fami…United Way of Greater…Weldon F Osborne Foun…Chattanooga Christian…Benwood Foundation IncTennessee Health Foun…The Bob & Susan Card …The McReynolds Family…McKenzie Foundation D…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of the Ocoee Region funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of the Ocoee Region. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report 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 72 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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