· Public charity
United Way of West Tennessee Inc
United way improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 46 grants below total $936,058 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $985,870 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $49,812 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 · FY2020
- Under $10k21 grants · $159k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $385k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $392k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JACKSON | $106,500 |
| DREAM CENTER | $93,741 |
| MATHEW 2540 | $74,742 |
| EXCHANGE CLUB- CARL PERKINS CENTER | $64,386 |
| WRAP WOMEN'S RAPE ASSISTANCE | $52,903 |
| WE CARE MINISTRIES | $31,245 |
| MADISONHAYWOOD DEVELOPMENTAL SERV | $29,576 |
| MUSTARD SEED MILAN | $28,959 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS W TN CHAPTER | $28,179 |
| ASPELL RECOVERY CENTER TAMB | $23,823 |
| STAR CENTER | $23,527 |
| JACKSON CENTER FOR INDEP LIVING | $21,684 |
| MARTIN HOUSING AUTHORITY | $21,131 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF DYER COUNTY | $20,506 |
| WEAKLEY COUNTY BACKPACK PROGRAM | $19,244 |
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 (FY17–20, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against -38% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2020, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- BABoys and Girls Club of Jackson4× · 2017–2020 · $384k · revenue +55%
- TDThe Dream Center4× · 2017–2020 · $326k · revenue +63%
- ECExchange Club - Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $242k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- MCMcNairy County Senior Citizens Clubone grant, 2018 · $28k · revenue -35%
- DCDyer County Office on Aging Incone grant, 2019 · $17k
- CPCS PATTERSON HARRY ADCOCKone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -46%
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 services for elderly in the Northwest Tennessee region
Provides support and services to individuals from 5 years to seniors with developmental disabilities and/or phsyical limitations.
Enable senior citizens to maintain independence
Provide services & meals to the elderly.
Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling
To administer and provide services for elderly residents of sawyer county
Serving meals to the elderly including home bound
To provide transportation and assistance to the elderly residents of Northwest Tennessee.
To provide services for training of developmentally disabled adults
Offers programs & services to older persons such as meals, house keeping, yard work, public transportation, and social activities.
Provide meals on wheels, congregate meals, and recreational facility for elderly and low income persons of dawson county texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Haywood Developmental Services and the most unlike its peers is Dyer County Office on Aging 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 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 59 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 Boys and Girls Club of Jackson ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 2540 INC ↗
- Who funds The Dream Center ↗
- Who funds Exchange Club - Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE AND RAPE ASSISTAN HUTCHERSON ↗
- Who funds THE MILAN MUSTARD SEED INC ↗
- Who funds Star Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Madison Haywood Developmental Services ↗
- Who funds AREA RELIEF MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds JACKSON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds TAMB OF JACKSON TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds MCNAIRY COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CANCER FUND ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF DYER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONS OF DYER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds McKenzie United Neighbors ↗
- Who funds JESUS CARESMCNAIRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SCARLET ROPE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WEST TN AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE DREAM FACTORY INC - HEADQUARTERS ↗
- Who funds Hands Up Preschool Inc ↗
- Who funds DYER COUNTY VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD ↗
- Who funds Life Choices Crisis Pregnancy Supp ↗
- Who funds HUMBOLDT SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TENNESSEE HEARING & SPEECH CEN ↗
- Who funds DAMASCUS 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.
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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 Tennessee 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.