· Public charity
United Way of Vermillion
Uniting people and resources to build a stronger community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $66,354 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $102,629 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $36,275 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAIN STREET CENTER | $14,000 |
| Domestic Violence Safe Options | $10,000 |
| USD Vucurevich Children's Center | $10,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Vermillion | $10,000 |
| Dollywood Foundation | $8,354 |
| Southeast CASA Program | $8,000 |
| USD Scottish Rite Speech & Hearing Clinic | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of United Way of Vermillion’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in SD; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +88% since the first grant, against +63% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FVFEEDING VERMILLION5× · 2019–2024 · $71k · revenue +1%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $54k · revenue +174%
- SCSENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES OF VERMILL5× · 2020–2024 · $53k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- VFVermillion Food Pantryone grant, 2022 · $24k
- VCVUCUREVICH CHILDREN'S CENTERone grant, 2018 · $9k
- VFVERMILLION FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2018 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Child abuse awareness and prevention
Perform forensic interviews on minor children in response to calls from either the Department of Children and Family Services or law enforcement, regarding potential abuse of the child. The Center works as an advocate for the child with…
To provide trained community volunteers to aid in making decisions in ocourt about abused and neglected children's lives
To provide training and assistance to shelters for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
The purpose of the corporation is to provide food and meals to those in need.
Serving as n advocate for the homeless and those at risk of homelessness, the dwelling place of vermilion county serves as a connection to services which have a positive impact on their life's journey.
Provide mental health counseling to needy families and persons in south central Oklahoma
To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.
Heartland casa (court appointed special advocates) supports abused and neglected children in the court system through recruiting and training informed, caring volunteers who speaks for these children.
To serve and enhance the lives of older people and their families in Southwest Kansas.
Adults day care
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helpline Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Domestic Violence Safe Options Svcs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FEEDING VERMILLION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES OF VERMILL ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SAFE OPTIONS SVCS ↗
- Who funds Sesdac Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RURAL OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST CASA PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds HELPLINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF YANKTON COUNTY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization United Way of Vermillion funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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