· Public charity
United Way of West Alabama Inc
The mission of united way of west alabama is to promote the general welfare of the citizens of west alabama by: raising funds, on an annual basis, to assist the effective delivery of health and human care programs and services, allocating funds raised on a fair and equitable basis according to the priority needs of the community,…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $2,982,252 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,447,658 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $465,406 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
- $10k–50k5 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY | $233,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $210,575 |
| TEMPORARY EMERGENCY SERVICES | $196,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $185,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEST ALABAMA | $179,050 |
| FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES | $177,800 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $160,700 |
| THE ARC OF TUSCALOOSA | $135,970 |
| FOCUS 50 | $126,965 |
| TURNING POINT | $126,001 |
| HOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA | $120,825 |
| WEST ALABAMA EASTER SEALS REHAB CTR | $120,000 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS | $105,950 |
| CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION SERVICES | $95,550 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH-CENTRAL AL | $93,086 |
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 (FY17–24, $5.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
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
- TETEMPORARY EMERGENCY SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +49% · 31% of their budget
- FCFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF WEST ALABAM A INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +52% · 38% of their budget
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST ALABAMA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +320% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
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.
Social services
Support services for the mentally challenged of south talladega county in alabama.
Strengthens families and serve sexual assault victims
To receive, invest and manage funds for the benefit of the arc of tuscaloosa county.
Tuscaloosa children's center, inc. is a non-profit organization serving as an interview facility designed to coordinate the efforts of local law enforcement, social service and professional agencies in such ways as to meet the needs of…
Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.
Southeast alabama youth services, inc. is a non-profit organization that provides counseling and housing to troubled youth of southeast alabama.
The hospice of northwest alabama's primary purpose is to provide health care for terminally ill patients. this care primarily consists of counseling for the patients and their families and nursing care provided in the patient's home and/or…
Serving people with intellectual and/or other developmental disabilities and their families.
To educate, empower, and improve services for mental health consumers in the state of alabama.
Provides training for adults with developmental disabilities in an adult training setting and supervised alternative living arrangements for washington county, alabama
To provide a child-focused approach to the intervention, treatment, prevention, and prosecution of child abuse cases. to provide free therapy to child abuse victims and age appropriate awareness in our school systems.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tuscaloosa Safe Centerinc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Theo Ratliff. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 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. 25 of the 29 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF TUSCALOOSA INC ↗
- Who funds TEMPORARY EMERGENCY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BLACK WARRIOR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF WEST ALABAM A INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Tuscaloosa ↗
- Who funds SAN INC DBA TURNING POINT ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON SENIOR CITIZENS OF TUSCALO ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WEST AL ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION SERVICES OF TUSCALOOSA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds TUSCALOOSA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds United Cerebral Palsy of West Alabama ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CARING DAYS INC ↗
- Who funds WEST ALABAMA AIDS OUTREACH INC FIVE HORIZONS HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ARTS' N AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA HEAD INJURY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST ALABAMA SICKLE CELL ANEMIA FOU ↗
- Who funds TUSCALOOSA SAFE CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THEO RATLIFF ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF THE VILLAGE NETWORK INC ↗
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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Nick's Kids Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Civil Justice Foundation · The Westervelt Foundation · Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable Foundation · The Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan Cork · Holle Family Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 West Alabama Inc 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.