· Public charity
United Way of West Ellis County Inc
The UWWEC, in partnership with you, seeks to improve the education, health and financial stability of our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $174,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $226,615 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $52,615 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $148k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Manna House | $30,000 |
| Ellis Co Childrens Advocacy | $20,000 |
| Paws For Reflection Ranch | $15,000 |
| YMCA of Waxahachie | $15,000 |
| Meals on Wheels Ellis Co | $15,000 |
| Presbyterian Childrens Home | $12,000 |
| Believing Restoration | $10,500 |
| North Ellis County Outreach | $10,000 |
| The Heights of Ellis County | $10,000 |
| Mentors Care | $10,000 |
| Ellis County 4-H | $7,500 |
| Bridges Training Foundation | $7,000 |
| The Anchor Home | $6,000 |
| Common Ground Ministry | $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 (FY17–25, $604k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- MHMANNA HOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $263k · revenue +185%
- WCWAXAHACHIE CARE SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2023 · $192k · revenue +517%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +73%
- FMFIRST METHODIST CHURCH OF MIDLOTHIANone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CCCREEKSIDE CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…
To provide services designed to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims by providing for immediate, short, and long-term needs.
When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…
To provide shelter to abused families.
To bring hope and healing while working together to break the cycle of child abuse.
CASA of McLennan County recruits, trains, and supports volunteers who advocate for the best interest of children in foster care. We seek advocates whose identity mirrors the children we service, in order to provide informed, quality…
Provide care, assistance, and counseling for abused women. Provide food for needy families.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
Training and supporting quality volunteers who speak out for the best interest of abused and neglected children in court in an effort to find each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
Feed and house homeless families, counsel and help them prepare for job interviews, assist in completing forms for govt assistance, and provide rent/utilities assistance. Coordinate with local food bank.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reach-Midlothian Inc and the most unlike its peers is Midlothian Senior Activity Center Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 35 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 MANNA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WAXAHACHIE CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIS COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MENTORS CARE FKA MOVEMENT TOWARD A FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR REFLECTION RANCH ↗
- Who funds Midlothian Senior Activity Center Inc ↗
- Who funds DANIEL'S DEN INC ↗
- Who funds Common Ground Ministries ↗
- Who funds BELIEVING RESTORATION IS ATTAINABLE-BRA ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WAXAHACHIE SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ABUSE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEIGHTS ELLIS COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Bridges Training Foundation ↗
- Who funds Anchor Home ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ELLIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds REACH-MIDLOTHIAN INC ↗
- Who funds North Ellis County Outreach ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Waxahachie Foundation Inc Waxahachie Foundation Inc · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · Ash Grove Charitable Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Servant Foundation · Tides Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Ellis County 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.