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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.

$986k
Granted FY2020
46
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$107k
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 2020.

Human Services$1.0MHousing & Shelter$602kYouth Development$455kHealth$451kPublic Safety & Disaster$444kFood & Nutrition$379kCrime & Legal$356kEmployment$188kOther$0
02FY2020 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 46 grants below total $936,058, the rows itemized in this filing. The $985,870 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $49,812 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 · FY2020

  • Under $10k21 grants · $159k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $385k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $392k
$10,900
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%DREAM CENTER: $94k → 15%DREAM CENTER: $92k → 15%HENDERSON CO SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $6k → 17%DREAM CENTER: $80k → 15%EXCHANGE CLUB- CARL PERKINS CENTER: $64k → 15%EXCHANGE CLUB- CARL PERKINS CENTER: $61k → 15%MCKENZIE UNITED NEIGHBORS: $24k → 16%MATHEW 2540: $96k → 17%DREAM CENTER: $60k → 15%MCKENZIE UNITED NEIGHBORS: $10k → 16%MATHEW 2540: $91k → 17%EXCHANGE CLUB- CARL PERKINS CENTER: $59k → 15%MCKENZIE UNITED NEIGHBORS: $10k → 16%MATHEW 2540: $88k → 17%EXCHANGE CLUB- CARL PERKINS CENTER: $58k → 15%MCKENZIE UNITED NEIGHBORS: $9k → 16%MATHEW 2540: $75k → 17%OFFICE OF AGINGDYER CO: $17k → 17%MADISONHAYWOOD DEVELOPMENTAL SERV: $30k → 15%MADISONHAYWOOD DEVELOPMENTAL SERV: $26k → 15%MADISONHAYWOOD DEVELOPMENTAL SERV: $22k → 15%MADISONHAYWOOD DEVELOPMENTAL SERV: $19k → 15%SCARLET ROPE PROJECT: $16k → 15%HEALING HORSES: $7k → 17%SCARLET ROPE PROJECT: $16k → 15%SCARLET ROPE PROJECT: $14k → 15%HEALING HORSES: $6k → 17%AREA RELIEF MINISTRIES: $47k → 15%AREA RELIEF MINISTRIES: $32k → 15%AREA RELIEF MINISTRIES: $10k → 15%AREA RELIEF MINISTRIES: $8k → 15%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.
$4.1M · 52 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
6

Total granted

$4.1M
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-38%

Still filing today

62%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthCrime & LegalPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club of Jackson
    4× · 2017–2020 · $384k · revenue +55%
  • TD
    The Dream Center
    4× · 2017–2020 · $326k · revenue +63%
  • EC
    Exchange Club - Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $242k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • MC
    McNairy County Senior Citizens Club
    one grant, 2018 · $28k · revenue -35%
  • DC
    Dyer County Office on Aging Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $17k
  • CP
    CS PATTERSON HARRY ADCOCK
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -46%
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
Northwest Tennessee Development Dis

To provide services for elderly in the Northwest Tennessee region

Community Improvement
2
Huntsville-Madison County Senior Center Inc

Enable senior citizens to maintain independence

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3
Graham County Rehabilitaion Center Inc

Provides support and services to individuals from 5 years to seniors with developmental disabilities and/or phsyical limitations.

Human Services
4
Harrison County Council On Aging

Provide services & meals to the elderly.

Human Services
5
Greater Chattanooga Christian Services Inc

Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling

Human Services
6
Senior Resource Center Inc

To administer and provide services for elderly residents of sawyer county

Human Services
7
Community Resource Center of Robertson County
Human Services
8
Jackson Senior Center Inc

Serving meals to the elderly including home bound

Human Services
9
Northwest Tn Human Resource Agency

To provide transportation and assistance to the elderly residents of Northwest Tennessee.

Human Services
10
Jackson County Arc Inc

To provide services for training of developmentally disabled adults

Human Services
11
Harlan County Senior Services Inc

Offers programs & services to older persons such as meals, house keeping, yard work, public transportation, and social activities.

Human Services
12
Dawson County Senior Citizens Center Inc

Provide meals on wheels, congregate meals, and recreational facility for elderly and low income persons of dawson county texas.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Haywood Developmental Services; 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.
04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/41
Grantees still filing
26/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MILAN MUSTARD SEED INC: $167,687 · OtherTHE MILAN MUSTARD SEED INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $142,806 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYAMERICAN RED CROSS W TN CHAPTER: $138,395 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS W TN CHAPTERWE CARE MINISTRIES INC: $128,095 · OtherWE CARE MINISTRIES INCSOUTHWEST HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY: $104,305 · OtherSOUTHWEST HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCYTAMB OF JACKSON TENNESSEE INC: $89,165 · OtherMCNAIRY COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC: $87,712 · OtherMARTIN HOUSING AUTHORITY: $69,750 · OtherWEAKLEY COUNTY BACKPACK PROGRAM: $66,750 · Other+27 more: $797,946 · Other+27 moreMATTHEW 2540 INC: $349,499 · Human ServicesMATTHEW 2540 INCThe Dream Center: $325,809 · Human ServicesThe Dream CenterExchange Club - Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse Inc: $242,381 · Human ServicesExchange Club - Carl Perkins Center…Madison Haywood Developmental Services: $97,870 · Human ServicesMadison Haywood Developmental Servi…AREA RELIEF MINISTRIES: $97,458 · Human ServicesAREA RELIEF MINISTRIESYMCA OF DYER COUNTY INC: $58,869 · Human ServicesMcKenzie United Neighbors: $54,087 · Human ServicesSCARLET ROPE PROJECT: $45,344 · Human Services+3 more: $36,266 · Human ServicesBoys and Girls Club of Jackson: $384,273 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Gi…Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest Ten: $14,248 · Youth Development+1 more: $12,782 · Youth DevelopmentWOMEN'S RESOURCE AND RAPE ASSISTAN HUTCHERSON: $222,058 · HealthWOMEN'S R…COMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $74,628 · HealthCOMMUNITY…Life Choices Crisis Pregnancy Supp: $38,916 · HealthLife Choi…JACKSON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $91,449 · Crime & LegalTRANSITIONS OF DYER COUNTY: $55,472 · Crime & LegalDAMASCUS INC: $30,250 · Crime & LegalStar Center Inc: $120,885 · EmploymentDYER COUNTY VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD: $41,749 · Public Safety & DisasterHUMBOLDT AREA RESCUE SQUAD: $27,878 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,792,611Human Services$1,307,583Youth Development$411,303Health$335,602Crime & Legal$177,171Employment$120,885Public Safety & Disaster$69,627

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 budgetBoys and Girls Club of Jackson: $384,273 over 4y, 18% of budgetMATTHEW 2540 INC: $349,499 over 4y, 35% of budgetThe Dream Center: $325,809 over 4y, 16% of budgetExchange Club - Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse Inc: $242,381 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetWOMEN'S RESOURCE AND RAPE ASSISTAN HUTCHERSON: $222,058 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE MILAN MUSTARD SEED INC: $167,687 over 4y, 22% of budgetStar Center Inc: $120,885 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMadison Haywood Developmental Services: $97,870 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAREA RELIEF MINISTRIES: $97,458 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetJACKSON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $91,449 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetTAMB OF JACKSON TENNESSEE INC: $89,165 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMCNAIRY COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC: $87,712 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $74,628 over 4y, 22% of budgetYMCA OF DYER COUNTY INC: $58,869 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetHabitat for Humanity: $54,747 over 4y, 20% of budgetMcKenzie United Neighbors: $54,087 over 4y, 38% of budgetJESUS CARESMCNAIRY COUNTY INC: $48,109 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetSCARLET ROPE PROJECT: $45,344 over 3y, 10% of budgetWEST TN AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $43,669 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE DREAM FACTORY INC - HEADQUARTERS: $43,049 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetHands Up Preschool Inc: $42,789 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetDYER COUNTY VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD: $41,749 over 4y, 54% of budgetLife Choices Crisis Pregnancy Supp: $38,916 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetHUMBOLDT SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC: $33,750 over 4y, 26% of budgetWEST TENNESSEE HEARING & SPEECH CEN: $32,687 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetDAMASCUS INC: $30,250 over 3y, 14% of budgetHUMBOLDT AREA RESCUE SQUAD: $27,878 over 4y, 20% of budgetWEST MADISON SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $26,525 over 4y, 14% of budgetVISION HAYWOOD COUNTY: $22,204 over 2y, 32% of budgetWest Tennessee Legal Services INC: $22,157 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSELMER SENIOR CENTER: $22,067 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Northwest Ten: $14,248 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHEALING HORSES: $13,311 over 2y, 40% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF THE SOUTH: $12,782 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - JACKSON TENNESSEE AREA INC: $6,631 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCS PATTERSON HARRY ADCOCK: $5,747 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHENDERSON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC: $5,625 over 1y, 4.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

West Tn Healthcare Fo…Charles P Wilson Foun…Cadence Bank Foundati…Community Foundation …The Murray Foundation…James E Campbell Fami…Southwest Members Car…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
West Tn Healthcare Foundation IncTN36.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: West Tn Healthcare Foundation Inc · Charles P Wilson Foundation Inc · Cadence Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Murray Foundation Inc · James E Campbell Family Foundation 26-3889180 · Southwest Members Care Incorporated · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 59 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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