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United Way of Waco-McLennan County

UNITED WAY OF WACO-MCLENNAN COUNTY strengthens the community by mobilizing resources to measurably improve lives.

$1.0M
Granted FY2023
23
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$86k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2023.

Human Services$2.6MHealth$1.3MCrime & Legal$1.0MCommunity Improvement$527kEmployment$240kYouth Development$219kEducation$162kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kOther$0
02FY2023 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k16 grants · $552k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $448k
$41,950
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMMUNITY DOULAS OF WACO$85,540
LA PUERTA$75,000
CHRISTIAN WOMEN'S JOB CORPS OF MCLENNAN COUNTY$68,735
GREATER WACO LEGAL SERVICES$68,735
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE HEART OF TEXAS$50,000
ADVOCACY CENTER FOR CRIME VICTIMS AND CHILDREN$50,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS$50,000
CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY$46,750
AMERICAN GATEWAYS$46,750
MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD$46,750
GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$45,000
ADVOCACY CENTER FOR CRIME VICTIMS AND CHILDREN$41,950
GREATER WACO LEGAL SERVICES$39,790
STARRY INC$30,000
THE ARC OF MCLENNAN COUNTY$30,000
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 (FY17–23, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA of Central Texas: $131k → 16%YMCA of Central Texas: $100k → 16%YMCA of Central Texas: $92k → 16%COMMMUNITY DOULAS OF WACO: $86k → 16%YMCA of Central Texas: $63k → 16%THE ARC OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $30k → 16%THE ARC OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $27k → 16%THE ARC OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $24k → 16%ASCENSION PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $16k → 16%Communities in Schools of the Heart of TX: $107k → 16%ARC of McLennan County: $93k → 16%ARC of McLennan County: $92k → 16%ARC of McLennan County: $87k → 16%Caritas of Waco: $67k → 16%CASA of McLennan & Hill Counties: $61k → 16%Caritas of Waco: $57k → 16%Caritas of Waco: $54k → 16%Communities in Schools of the Heart of TX: $53k → 16%Caritas of Waco: $53k → 16%CASA of McLennan & Hill Counties: $53k → 16%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE HEART OF TEXAS: $50k → 16%ARC of McLennan County: $49k → 16%CASA of McLennan & Hill Counties: $41k → 16%CARITAS OF WACO: $29k → 16%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE HEART OF TEXAS: $21k → 16%CASA of McLennan & Hill Counties: $20k → 16%EOAC Child Care Services: $10k → 16%EOAC Child Care Services: $10k → 16%CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $47k → 16%Meals on Wheels: $35k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS - CENTRAL TEXAS SENIOR MINISTRY: $20k → 16%CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $19k → 16%LA PUERTA: $75k → 16%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 29 repeat orgs$384k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
11

Total granted

$5.8M
$193k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+77%

Still filing today

79%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • FAMILY ABUSE CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $529k · revenue +34%
  • ADVOCACY CENTER FOR CRIME VICTIMS AND CHILDREN
    6× · 2017–2023 · $428k · revenue +52%
  • HO
    HEART OF TEXAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $329k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • WC
    Waco Cultural Arts Festgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $32k · revenue +49%
  • AI
    AVANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +367%
  • FF
    FRIENDS FOR LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $21k · revenue +77%
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
United Way of Waco-Mclennan County

United way of waco-mclennan county strengthens the community by mobilizing resources to measurably improve lives.

Philanthropy
2
Creative Waco

Creative waco's mission is to grow and support a thriving cultural and creative community in waco and mclennan county, texas.

Arts & Culture
3
United Way of Comal County

To engage the community and focus resources for those in need in comal county

Philanthropy
4
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.

Crime & Legal
5
Ywca Corpus Christi

Ywca corpus christi is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Human Services
6
Greater Waco Collective Impact Initiative

To establish a measureable agenda for improving the community and support the implementation of interventions in the community to address the goals contained in this agenda.

Community Improvement
7
Casa of Williamson County Texas

CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.

Crime & Legal
8
United Way of Brazoria County

To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County

Philanthropy
9
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
10
Community Action Corporation of South Texas

To continuously improve the lives of South Texans by providing high quality health care, education, housing and economic opportunities to reduce poverty through services and partnerships.

Human Services
11
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
12
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compassion Ministries of Waco; the most unlike its peers is Community Doulas of Waco. 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

39 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. 39 of the 43 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY ABUSE CENTER INC: $529,192 · Human ServicesFAMILY ABUSE CENTER INCTHE ARC OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $402,284 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF MCLENNAN COUNTYWACO FAMILY YMCA: $385,446 · Human ServicesWACO FAMILY YMCACARITAS OF WACO: $259,938 · Human ServicesCARITAS OF WACOCASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $241,633 · Human ServicesCASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTYCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE HEART OF TEXAS: $230,372 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE HEART OF TEX…Community Doulas of Waco: $85,540 · Human Services+4 more: $166,074 · Human Services+4 moreCommunity Cancer Association: $355,783 · HealthCommunity Cancer …HEART OF TEXAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $329,113 · HealthHEART OF TEXAS CO…Scott & White Healthcare Foundation: $115,285 · HealthScott & White Hea…CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $114,167 · HealthCARE NET PREGNANC…+1 more: $20,857 · HealthFAMILY COUNSELING AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF WACO TX: $279,276 · OtherFAMILY COUNSELING A…HEART OF TEXAS REGION MENTAL HEALTH MENTAL RETARDATION CENTER: $244,764 · OtherHEART OF TEXAS REGI…The Salvation Army: $188,274 · OtherThe Salvation ArmyGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $92,618 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF CENT…MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC: $81,775 · OtherMISSION WACO MISSIO…+9 more: $184,291 · Other+9 moreCOMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO: $281,084 · Community ImprovementCOMPASSION M…STARRY Inc: $168,125 · Community ImprovementSTARRY IncTALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE: $101,440 · Community ImprovementTALITHA KOUM…WACO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $99,312 · Community ImprovementWACO COMMUNI…+1 more: $22,000 · Community ImprovementADVOCACY CENTER FOR CRIME VICTIMS AND CHILDREN: $428,168 · EducationADVOCACY CE…THE COVE - HEART OF TEXAS INC: $156,714 · EducationTHE COVE - …INSPIRACION INC: $54,187 · EducationINSPIRACION…+1 more: $6,000 · EducationGREATER WACO LEGAL SERVICES: $198,550 · Crime & LegalAmerican Gateways: $131,815 · Crime & LegalHEART OF TEXAS GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC: $100,590 · EmploymentCHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORPS OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $95,547 · Employment
Human Services$2,300,479Health$935,205Other$1,070,998Community Improvement$671,961Education$645,069Crime & Legal$330,365Employment$196,137

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY ABUSE CENTER INC: $529,192 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetADVOCACY CENTER FOR CRIME VICTIMS AND CHILDREN: $428,168 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetTHE ARC OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $402,284 over 6y, 23% of budgetWACO FAMILY YMCA: $385,446 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCommunity Cancer Association: $355,783 over 5y, 56% of budgetHEART OF TEXAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $329,113 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO: $281,084 over 4y, 13% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELING AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF WACO TX: $279,276 over 4y, 97% of budgetCARITAS OF WACO: $259,938 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $241,633 over 6y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE HEART OF TEXAS: $230,372 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetGREATER WACO LEGAL SERVICES: $198,550 over 4y, 20% of budgetSTARRY Inc: $168,125 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE COVE - HEART OF TEXAS INC: $156,714 over 4y, 11% of budgetAmerican Gateways: $131,815 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetScott & White Healthcare Foundation: $115,285 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $114,167 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE: $101,440 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetHEART OF TEXAS GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC: $100,590 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWACO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $99,312 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetCHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORPS OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $95,547 over 3y, 26% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $92,618 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Doulas of Waco: $85,540 over 1y, 64% of budgetMISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC: $81,775 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLA PUERTA: $75,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS WACO: $55,025 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetINSPIRACION INC: $54,187 over 2y, 22% of budgetWaco Cultural Arts Fest: $32,437 over 1y, 22% of budgetMENTORING ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWACO BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $26,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAVANCE INC: $22,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS FOR LIFE: $20,857 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWACO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $20,854 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES ADVANCEMENT CORP OF PLANNING REGION XI: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BEAUMONT & NORTH JEFFERSON COUNTY: $16,667 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUnited Way of Mid & South Jefferson Co: $16,667 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $16,666 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetASCENSION PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $16,049 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ATTN CHRISTOPHER QUALLS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Waco FoundationCooper FoundationBaylor UniversityBernard & Audre Rapop…The Fentress Foundati…Clifton FoundationBowen Family Foundati…Ascension ProvidenceOnce Upon a Time Foun…Fm and Gloria Young F…Margaret Cb & S Spenc…The McClane Brown Fam…
Waco FoundationTX57.5× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waco Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Baylor University · Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation · The Fentress Foundation · Clifton Foundation · Bowen Family Foundation · Ascension Providence · Once Upon a Time Foundation · Fm and Gloria Young Family Foundation · Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc · The McClane Brown Family 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 Waco-McLennan County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Waco-McLennan County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    13report 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 43 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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