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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.

$227k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
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 2025.

Human Services$848kFood & Nutrition$448kYouth Development$358kCrime & Legal$186kAnimals$113kHousing & Shelter$90kPublic Safety & Disaster$61kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $174,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $226,615 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $52,615 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $148k
$10,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$573k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Presbyterian Childrens Home: $12k → 10%Presbyterian Childrens Home: $12k → 10%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDRENS HOME AND SERVICE: $12k → 10%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMSE AND SERVICE: $10k → 10%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMSE AND SERVICE: $5k → 10%MIDLOTHIAN SENIOR CITIZENS: $21k → 9%MIDLOTHIAN SENIOR CITIZENS: $18k → 9%MIDLOTHIAN SENIOR CITIZENS: $17k → 9%Midlothian Senior Citizens: $17k → 9%MIDLOTHIAN SENIOR CITIZENS: $15k → 9%MIDLOTHIAN SENIOR CITIZENS: $12k → 9%Midlothian Senior Citizens: $12k → 9%THE HEIGHTS OF ELLIS COUNTY: $10k → 9%The Heights of Ellis County: $10k → 9%The Heights of Ellis County: $10k → 9%BRIDGES TRAINING FOUNDATION: $7k → 9%Bridges Training Foundation: $7k → 9%Bridges Training Foundation: $7k → 9%Meals on Wheels Ellis County: $40k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS ELLIS COUNTY: $40k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS ELLIS COUNTY: $25k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS ELLIS COUNTY: $20k → 9%YMCA OF WAXAHACHIE: $16k → 9%YMCA OF WAXAHACHIE: $16k → 9%YMCA OF WAXAHACHIE: $16k → 9%Meals on Wheels Ellis Co: $15k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS ELLIS COUNTY: $15k → 9%Meals on Wheels Ellis Co: $15k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS ELLIS COUNTY: $15k → 9%YMCA of Waxahachie: $15k → 9%YMCA OF WAXAHACHIE: $14k → 9%YMCA of Waxahachie: $14k → 9%YMCA OF WAXAHACHIE: $14k → 9%YMCA of Waxahachie: $12k → 9%Believing Restoration: $11k → 9%Believing Restoration: $10k → 9%BELIEVING RESTORATION IS ATTAINABLE: $10k → 9%WAXAHACHIE SENIOR CITIZENS: $10k → 9%Waxahachie Senior Citizens: $10k → 9%BELIEVING RESTORATION IS ATTAINABLE: $8k → 9%WAXAHACHIE SENIOR CITIZENS: $8k → 9%BELIEVING RESTORATION IS ATTAINABLE: $6k → 9%BELIEVING RESTORATION IS ATTAINABLE: $6k → 9%WAXAHACHIE SENIOR CITIZENS: $5k → 9%BELIEVING RESTORATION IS ATTAINABLE: $5k → 9%WAXAHACHIE SENIOR CITIZENS: $1k → 9%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 26 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
8

Total granted

$2.1M
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+73%

Still filing today

69%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalReligionFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • MH
    MANNA HOUSE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $263k · revenue +185%
  • WC
    WAXAHACHIE CARE SERVICES INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $192k · revenue +517%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +73%
  • FM
    FIRST METHODIST CHURCH OF MIDLOTHIAN
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • CC
    CREEKSIDE CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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2
Lone Star Casa Inc

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…

Civil Rights
3
Eastland County Crisis Center Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Shelter Agencies for Families in East Texas

To provide shelter to abused families.

Human Services
5
Texas Community Counseling

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,…

Human Services
6
Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center Inc

To bring hope and healing while working together to break the cycle of child abuse.

Human Services
7
Casa of Mclennan County

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…

Human Services
8
Texas Battered Women's Center Inc

Provide care, assistance, and counseling for abused women. Provide food for needy families.

Human Services
9
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Montgomery County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc

Serves abused children through a comprehensive approach to services for abused children and their families.

Crime & Legal
11
Court Appointed Special Advocates in the Heart of Texas

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.

Civil Rights
12
Texoma Family Shelter

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reach-Midlothian Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/24
Grantees still filing
22/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAXAHACHIE CARE SERVICES INC: $191,986 · Human ServicesWAXAHACHIE CARE SERVICES INCMEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $185,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INCYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $116,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INCMidlothian Senior Activity Center Inc: $111,500 · Human ServicesMidlothian Senior Activity Center IncBELIEVING RESTORATION IS ATTAINABLE-BRA: $56,200 · Human ServicesBELIEVING RESTORATION IS ATTAINABLE-BRAPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES: $51,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICESWAXAHACHIE SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC: $33,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY ABUSE CENTER INC: $31,000 · Human ServicesTHE HEIGHTS ELLIS COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $30,000 · Human Services+1 more: $21,250 · Human ServicesThe Salvation Army: $111,000 · OtherThe Salvation ArmyDANIEL'S DEN INC: $90,000 · OtherDANIEL'S DEN INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $81,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBEllis County 4-H: $62,000 · OtherEllis County 4-HAMERICAN RED CROSS DALLAS AREA CHAPTER: $61,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS DALLAS …Milford Senior Citizens: $40,790 · OtherMilford Senior CitizensAnchor Home: $18,000 · Other+9 more: $41,600 · Other+9 moreMANNA HOUSE: $263,291 · Food & NutritionMANNA HOUSEELLIS COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $176,000 · Crime & LegalELLIS COU…COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ELLIS COUNTY: $10,000 · Crime & LegalCOURT APP…MENTORS CARE FKA MOVEMENT TOWARD A FUTURE INC: $127,600 · Youth DevelopmentBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL: $17,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentPAWS FOR REFLECTION RANCH: $112,500 · AnimalsCommon Ground Ministries: $58,500 · ReligionHARVEST FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES: $25,600 · Religion
Human Services$827,436Other$505,390Food & Nutrition$263,291Crime & Legal$186,000Youth Development$146,100Animals$112,500Religion$84,100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMANNA HOUSE: $263,291 over 9y, 6.7% of budgetWAXAHACHIE CARE SERVICES INC: $191,986 over 7y, 16% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $185,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetELLIS COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $176,000 over 9y, 7.5% of budgetMENTORS CARE FKA MOVEMENT TOWARD A FUTURE INC: $127,600 over 9y, 7.0% of budgetYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $116,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR REFLECTION RANCH: $112,500 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetMidlothian Senior Activity Center Inc: $111,500 over 8y, 80% of budgetDANIEL'S DEN INC: $90,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetCommon Ground Ministries: $58,500 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetBELIEVING RESTORATION IS ATTAINABLE-BRA: $56,200 over 8y, 14% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES: $51,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWAXAHACHIE SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC: $33,500 over 5y, 18% of budgetFAMILY ABUSE CENTER INC: $31,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HEIGHTS ELLIS COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHARVEST FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES: $25,600 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetBridges Training Foundation: $21,250 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetAnchor Home: $18,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREACH-MIDLOTHIAN INC: $10,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ELLIS COUNTY: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 REACH-MIDLOTHIAN INC ↗
  • Who funds North Ellis County Outreach ↗
  • Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ELLIS COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…Waxahachie Foundation…Dart Foundation fka S…Ash Grove Charitable …Bnsf Railway Foundati…Servant FoundationTides FoundationNatl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX17.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 West Ellis County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of West Ellis County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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