· Public charity
United Way of West Georgia Inc
United way of west georgia's mission is to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another by expanding them effectively to build a better, more self- sufficient 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 17 grants below total $493,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $514,746 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,246 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
- Under $10k6 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAGRANGE PERSONAL AID | $135,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $65,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| HARMONY HOUSE | $30,000 |
| INTERFAITH FOOD CLOSET | $30,000 |
| LAGRANGE ACTIVE LIFE | $29,500 |
| HOGANSVILLE SENIOR CENTER | $27,500 |
| CASA | $25,000 |
| MAIDEE SMITH NURSERY | $20,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF TROUP | $16,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $9,000 |
| FOSTER GRANDPARENT PROGRAM | $8,500 |
| SENIOR COMPANIONS | $8,500 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $677k) 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 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.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- LPLAGRANGE PERSONAL AID ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +74% · 44% of their budget
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2017–2024 · $417k · revenue +46%
- MSMAIDEE SMITH EARLY CARE & LEARNING CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $349k · revenue +232% · 51% of their budget
Funded once
- ANATHLETES NAMED TROUP SPECIALone grant, 2024 · $6k
- WPWEST POINT ACTIVE LIFEone grant, 2024 · $6k
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.
To provide volunteer support & training, and the girl scout leadership program within thirty counties in southern alabama.
To provide quality golf experience and life skill enhancements to youth of troup county, georgia.
Provide recreational activities, athletic programs, various educational and enrichment programs to members and other youth with an emphasis on the under privileged.
Financial support of choctaw area council no. 302, boy scouts of america, inc.
The purpose of troup cares, inc. is to study, evaluate, and implement systemic solutions for the lack of affordable health care for the persons in the troup county, georgia community.
Shelter service for abused women and children in mingo and logan counties in west virginia.
Dougherty County CASA, Inc. supports children who have experienced abuse or neglect by providing specially trained community volunteers to advocate for their best interests -- promoting their safety, stability, and permanent connections to…
Emergency foster care for abused and neglected children in pickens, dawson, and surrounding counties.
Child Advocacy Services
Providing educational and recreational programs for children.
Our mission is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.
To be the voice for children who have been victims of abuse and/or neglect. Our vision is to serve every child in the Cheaha Region by providing them with a caring and competent trained volunteer.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Troup Council On Aging Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chattahoochee Council Inc Boy Scouts of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 22 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 LAGRANGE PERSONAL AID ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MAIDEE SMITH EARLY CARE & LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Boys & Girls Club of West Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds TROUP COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONY HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHE INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TROUP COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD CLOSET ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP VIOLA INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF TROUP CO 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: The Charter Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley 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 Georgia 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.