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United Way of Union County Inc

The united way of union county is a voluntary effort to increase the organized capacity of people who care for one another.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$357k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$3.4MHuman Services$2.6MHealth$2.4MCommunity Improvement$291kEducation$186kAnimals$183kCrime & Legal$127k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $773k
  • $250k+2 grants · $607k
$76,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EL DORADO$356,500
HOPE LANDING$250,000
SALVATION ARMY$240,000
COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGEMENTS$80,000
BOY SCOUTS-DESOTO COUNCIL$78,000
HORIZONS$76,000
MAGDALENE HOUSE$72,200
SOUTH ARKANSAS DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER$67,000
SOUTH ARKANSAS CHILDRENS COALITION$53,400
UNION COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY$53,000
TURNING POINT$53,000
LITERACY COUNCIL$19,800
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 (FY17–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%HOPE LANDING: $250k → 19%HOPE LANDING: $225k → 19%HOPE LANDING: $212k → 19%HOPE LANDING: $207k → 19%HOPE LANDING: $198k → 19%HOPE LANDING: $183k → 19%HOPE LANDING: $180k → 19%HOPE LANDING: $180k → 19%COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: $82k → 19%COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: $80k → 19%COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: $80k → 19%COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: $80k → 19%COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: $75k → 19%COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: $73k → 19%COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: $73k → 19%COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: $71k → 19%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.2M · 14 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
0

Total granted

$9.2M
$0

Still filing today

79%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationCivil RightsAnimalsOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EL DORADO INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +62% · 31% of their budget
  • HL
    HOPE LANDING INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +18%
  • DS
    DE SOTO AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $712k · revenue +7% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

    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
    Searcy Childrens Home Inc Sparrows Promise

    Providing hope for children and families in the arkansas child welfare system provide foster care, supervised visitation services, a safe space for children to rest while waiting on a foster family and training for foster families.

    —
    2
    Casa of North Arkansas

    The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.

    Civil Rights
    3
    The Arkansas Center for Independence

    Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities

    Human Services
    4
    Arkansas Animal Alliance Inc

    Nonprofit animal rescue

    Animals
    5
    Arkansas Coalition Against Domestic Violence

    Provide help to domestic violence victims and encourage community efforts to promote domestic peace.

    —
    6
    Southeast Arkansas Behavioral Healthcare

    To create an environment where staff is conscientious to the behavioral health needs of the area in a manner which is client oriented, accessible, affordable, and quality driven.

    Health
    7
    South Arkansas Regional Health Center Inc

    South Arkansas Regional Health Center, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides counseling,mental health, and behavioral health care services to residents of South Arkansas.

    Health
    8
    Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter in Dba Everhope Arkansas Inc

    To provide a safe have, high quality care, and hope for the future to chidren who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected.

    Human Services
    9
    Arkansas Enterprises for the Developmentally Disabled Inc

    Teaching work skills and daily living skills to individuals with developmental disabilities.

    Human Services
    10
    Central Arkansas Development Council

    To provide services to low income individuals.

    Community Improvement
    11
    Legal Aid of Arkansas

    To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.

    Crime & Legal
    12
    Arkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc

    The organization provides a therapeutic shelter and care for homeless and/or abused children.

    Housing & Shelter
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Arkansas Development Center for Children and Families Inc; the most unlike its peers is Magdalene House El Dorado. 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

    12 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. 12 of the 14 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.

    5
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    6
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    11/12
    Grantees still filing
    10/12
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EL DORADO INC: $2,317,292 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EL DORADO INCSALVATION ARMY: $1,667,922 · OtherSALVATION ARMYDE SOTO AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $711,577 · OtherDE SOTO AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INCSOUTH ARKANSAS DEVELOPMENT CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $521,137 · OtherSOUTH ARKANSAS DEVELOPMENT CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INCTURNING POINT OF SOUTH ARKANSAS INC: $290,852 · Other+1 more: $124,759 · OtherHOPE LANDING INC: $1,635,017 · Human ServicesHOPE LANDING INCCommunity Living Arrangements Inc: $613,794 · Human ServicesCommunity Living Arrangemen…CAMP FIRE EL DORADO INC: $418,196 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTH ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S COALITION: $286,487 · Civil RightsSOUTH ARKANSAS FIGHTS AIDS: $230,484 · HealthUNION COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY INC: $182,567 · AnimalsMAGDALENE HOUSE EL DORADO: $127,200 · Crime & LegalSOUTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $60,909 · Education
    Other$5,633,539Human Services$2,248,811Youth Development$418,196Civil Rights$286,487Health$230,484Animals$182,567Crime & Legal$127,200Education$60,909

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

    25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EL DORADO INC: $2,317,292 over 8y, 31% of budgetHOPE LANDING INC: $1,635,017 over 8y, 14% of budgetDE SOTO AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $711,577 over 8y, 31% of budgetCommunity Living Arrangements Inc: $613,794 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetSOUTH ARKANSAS DEVELOPMENT CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $521,137 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetCAMP FIRE EL DORADO INC: $418,196 over 8y, 31% of budgetTURNING POINT OF SOUTH ARKANSAS INC: $290,852 over 8y, 13% of budgetSOUTH ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S COALITION: $286,487 over 8y, 12% of budgetSOUTH ARKANSAS FIGHTS AIDS: $230,484 over 7y, 68% of budgetUNION COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY INC: $182,567 over 5y, 12% of budgetMAGDALENE HOUSE EL DORADO: $127,200 over 2y, 57% of budgetSOUTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $60,909 over 6y, 4.8% 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EL DORADO INC ↗
    • Who funds HOPE LANDING INC ↗
    • Who funds DE SOTO AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
    • Who funds Community Living Arrangements Inc ↗
    • Who funds SOUTH ARKANSAS DEVELOPMENT CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
    • Who funds CAMP FIRE EL DORADO INC ↗
    • Who funds TURNING POINT OF SOUTH ARKANSAS INC ↗
    • Who funds SOUTH ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S COALITION ↗
    • Who funds SOUTH ARKANSAS FIGHTS AIDS ↗
    • Who funds UNION COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY INC ↗
    • Who funds MAGDALENE HOUSE EL DORADO ↗
    • Who funds SOUTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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.

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    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 Union County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Union County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
      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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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