How much does United Way of Washington County Inc give?

United Way of Washington County Inc reported 21 itemized grants totaling $1,169,910, out of $1,433,993 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does United Way of Washington County Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (43%), Health (22%), Youth Development (21%).

Who are United Way of Washington County Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Elevate Inc ($837k), The Threshold Incorporated ($803k), Friends Inc ($695k).

Does United Way of Washington County Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Washington County Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include West Bend Community Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation, Froedtert West Bend Hospital Foundation Inc.

Where is United Way of Washington County Inc based?

United Way of Washington County Inc is based in WI.

United Way of Washington County Inc

United Way of Washington County Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

United Way of Washington County Inc

Mobilize the caring power of washington county to improve lives and community conditions in measurable and lasting ways.

$1.4M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$133k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% 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$3.2MHealth$1.7MYouth Development$1.6MHousing & Shelter$580kCrime & Legal$215kFood & Nutrition$162kPublic Safety & Disaster$92kEmployment$65kOther$0

02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 21 grants below total $1,169,910, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,433,993 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $264,083 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k11 grants · $190k
$50k–250k10 grants · $980k

$42,200

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES	$132,500
FAMILY PROMISE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY	$130,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY	$130,000
THE THRESHOLD INC	$111,500
FRIENDS INC	$101,500
ELEVATE INC	$98,560
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY	$82,500
INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY	$73,000
THE YOUTH FAMILY PROJECT INC	$62,500
CASA GUADALUPE EDUCATION CENTER	$57,750
KETTLE MORAINE YMCA	$42,200
LAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE	$30,000
FULL SHELF FOOD PANTRY	$20,000
NAMI WASHINGTON COUNTY INC	$15,900
IMPACT INC	$15,000

02The need

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, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.5M · 30 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.5M

$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+43%

Still filing today

80%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentReligionHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther

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

EI
ELEVATE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $837k · revenue +157%
TT
THE THRESHOLD INCORPORATED
9× · 2017–2025 · $803k · revenue +17%
FRIENDS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $695k · revenue +39%

Funded once

4C
4C - CHILDREN
one grant, 2018 · $38k
FC
FAMILY CENTER OF WASHINGTON CNTY
one grant, 2017 · $29k
WR
WISCONSIN RAPIDS FAMILY CENTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $29k · revenue +43%

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.

Family Service Agency of Waukesha County Inc

Building stronger communities, strengthening families, and empowering individuals through compassionate, life changing programs and behavioral health services.

Human Services

Family Impact Network

Providing resources & services to vulnerable children and families to address overall well-being. family impact network ("fin") supports restorative and empowering efforts to transition under-resourced children and families from crisis to…

Human Services

Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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Workforce Connections Inc

Wci empowers individuals through employment and training services, helping people of all backgrounds including low-skilled and unskilled adults enter the workforce. we provide economically disadvantaged individuals and those facing…

Employment

Family Works Programs Inc

Provider of treatment foster care for children and youth with complex needs.

Human Services

Family Service Inc

To provide family and individual counseling

—

Family Solutions Inc

Family solutions is a community based, comprehensive behavioral health provider cultivating the wellness of southwest washington by offering hope and health to children, youth and families.

Health

Family Promise of Waukesha County Inc

Our mission is to help low-income families and families experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.

Housing & Shelter

Lutheran Counseling and Family Services

Lutheran counseling and family services of wisconsin provides faith-based mental health counseling, family life education and adoption services.

Human Services

The Family Service Center of Wilmette Glenview Northbrook and Kenilworth

To strengthen and empower families and communities by providing accessible evidenced-based counseling, crisis response, outreach, and education. To help build a community united in actively supporting emotional and mental well-being. FSC…

Human Services

Family Services of Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois Inc

To restore and enhance lives in our community through advocacy, education, counseling and case management.

Human Services

Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends Inc; the most unlike its peers is Senior Citizens Activities Inc. 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

28 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. 28 of the 36 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/28

Grantees still filing

19/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$3,486,301Other$2,473,586Youth Development$667,480Housing & Shelter$580,000Religion$172,208Health$169,500Employment$64,750

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

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.

West Bend Community Foundation IncWI43.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: West Bend Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Froedtert West Bend Hospital Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Oscar & Augusta Schlegel Fdn · Prescott Family Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Westbury Bank Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze 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 Washington County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Washington County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

18report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home