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United Way of Williamson County

The mission of United Way of Williamson County is to unite people and organizations throughout Williamson County in order to build stronger communities and improve lives.

$450k
Granted FY2021
20
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2021.

Health$861kFood & Nutrition$360kEducation$225kHuman Services$175kYouth Development$159kEmployment$131kPhilanthropy$50kCrime & Legal$40kOther$0
02FY2021 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $162,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $450,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $287,500 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k15 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $74k
$6,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Interagency Support Council$20,000
Samaritan Center for Counseling and Pastoral Care Inc$16,250
Hope Alliance$15,000
Sacred Heart Community Clinic$11,250
AGE of Central Texas$11,250
Breast Cancer Resource Center$8,750
Opportunities for WBC$8,750
Spirit Reins$6,250
Rock Ride On Center for Kids$6,250
Samaritan Health Ministries$6,250
NAMI Central Texas$6,250
Nineveh Ministries$6,250
Senior Access$5,000
Hutto Resource Center$5,000
Williamson County Children's Advocacy Center$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $460k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%Age of Central Texas: $30k → 10%AGE of Central Texas: $30k → 10%Hutto Resource Center: $5k → 6%Austin Groups for the Elderly of Central Texas: $30k → 10%Austin Groups for the Elderly of Central Texas: $30k → 10%AGE of Central Texas: $11k → 10%Wonders and Worries INC: $10k → 10%Operation Liberty Hill: $10k → 6%Operation Liberty Hill: $10k → 6%Wonders and Worries Inc: $10k → 10%Interagency Support Council of East Williamson County: $40k → 6%Interagency Support Council of East Williamson County: $35k → 6%Interagency Support Council Of East Williamson County: $30k → 6%Interagency Support Council of East Williamson County: $30k → 6%Capital Idea: $20k → 10%Interagency Support Council: $20k → 6%Capital Idea: $20k → 10%Opportunities For Wbc: $20k → 6%Opportunities of WBC: $20k → 6%Williamson Burnet County Opportunities Inc: $20k → 6%Williamson Burnet County Opportunities Inc: $20k → 6%Opportunities for WBC: $9k → 6%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of United Way of Williamson County’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

United Way of Williamson Countylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$2.0M · 29 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2021, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
1

Total granted

$2.0M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+34%

Still filing today

90%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • WC
    WILLIAMSON COUNTY CRISIS CENTER
    5× · 2017–2021 · $155k · revenue +260%
  • AG
    AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $131k · revenue +19%
  • BC
    BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER
    5× · 2017–2021 · $124k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • G
    GENAUSTINgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +34%
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
Casa of Williamson County Texas

CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.

Crime & Legal
2
Austin Child Guidance Center

To improve the mental health of children and their families through early intervention, diagnosis, and treatment to help them develop the emotional skills for meeting life's challenges.

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3
Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center

To provide emergency assistance to people in Montgomery County, TX who are in an unexpected crisis.

Human Services
4
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
5
Womens Center of Brazoria County Inc

Comprehensive service to domestic violence and sexual assault victims

Human Services
6
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
7
Kilgore Samaritan Counseling Center Inc

To provide counseling services to persons and families in the community, regardless of ability to pay.

Health
8
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
9
Austin Clubhouse Inc

The Austin Clubhouse exists to provide acceptance and empowerment so adults living with mental health diagnoses can pursue personal goals and play a meaningful role as co-workers, colleagues, family members, neighbors and friends.

Health
10
East Texas Community Clinic Inc

To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.

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11
Meals On Wheels - Walker Countytx Inc

The center functions to serve senior adults 60 yrs and older. provide programs and services that will enable the individuals to be an integral part of the community and allow them to retain independence dignity and sense of well being

Human Services
12
South Central Houston Action Council Inc

The organization provides medical services in the form of primary and preventive care to underserved and underinsured residents of harris county.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown Caring Place; the most unlike its peers is Genaustin. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

34 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. 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/34
Grantees still filing
27/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILLIAMSON COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $155,000 · OtherWILLIAMSON COUNTY CRISIS CENTERHILL COUNTRY MEDICAL MINISTRIESINC: $136,250 · OtherHILL COUNTRY MEDICAL MINISTRIESINCLiteracy Council of Williamson County: $125,000 · OtherLiteracy Council of Williamson CountySamaritan Center for Counseling and Pastoral Care Inc: $96,250 · OtherSamaritan Center for Counseling and Pastoral Care …Round Rock Area Serving Center Inc: $65,000 · OtherRound Rock Area Serving Center IncSPIRIT REINS INC: $56,250 · OtherSPIRIT REINS INCROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $40,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $50,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER CENTRAL TEXAS IN…WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $40,000 · OtherROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS INC: $36,250 · Other+5 more: $36,500 · OtherInteragency Support Council of Eastern Williamson County: $155,000 · Human ServicesInteragency Support Council of Eas…AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $131,250 · Human ServicesAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLYCapital Investing in Development and Employment of Adults Inc: $120,000 · Human ServicesCapital Investing in Development a…WILLIAMSON-BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $88,750 · Human ServicesWILLIAMSON-BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNI…HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $30,000 · Human Services+5 more: $80,000 · Human Services+5 moreBREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER: $123,750 · HealthBREAST CANCER…The Georgetown Project: $60,000 · HealthThe Georgetow…Sacred Heart Community Clinic: $51,250 · HealthSacred Heart …BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GEORGETOWN: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentGEORGETOWN CARING PLACE: $70,000 · Community ImprovementMEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionShepherd's Heart Food Pantry and Community Ministries: $30,000 · Food & NutritionTHE ANNUNCIATION MATERNITY HOME INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$886,500Human Services$605,000Health$235,000Youth Development$90,000Community Improvement$70,000Food & Nutrition$70,000Philanthropy$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWILLIAMSON COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $155,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetInteragency Support Council of Eastern Williamson County: $155,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetHILL COUNTRY MEDICAL MINISTRIESINC: $136,250 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $131,250 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetLiteracy Council of Williamson County: $125,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetBREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER: $123,750 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetCapital Investing in Development and Employment of Adults Inc: $120,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSamaritan Center for Counseling and Pastoral Care Inc: $96,250 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetWILLIAMSON-BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $88,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN CARING PLACE: $70,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetRound Rock Area Serving Center Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetThe Georgetown Project: $60,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GEORGETOWN: $60,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetSPIRIT REINS INC: $56,250 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSacred Heart Community Clinic: $51,250 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE ANNUNCIATION MATERNITY HOME INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS INC: $36,250 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetShepherd's Heart Food Pantry and Community Ministries: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION GEORGETOWN: $20,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetWonders & Worries Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOPERATION LIBERTY HILL: $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetGENAUSTIN: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNAMI Central Texas: $6,250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJAIL TO JOBS: $6,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUTTO RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSENIOR ACCESS TX: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSkillpoint Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

United Way for Greate…St David's FoundationGeorgetown Healthcare…Austin Community Foun…Georgetown Area Commu…Central Texas Communi…The Moody FoundationUnited Way WorldwideTopfer Family Foundat…Harry E and Eda L Mon…Texas Mutual Insuranc…Charles Schwab Founda…
United Way for Greater AustinTX65.5× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way for Greater Austin · St David's Foundation · Georgetown Healthcare System Inc · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Georgetown Area Community Foundation · Central Texas Community Foundation · The Moody Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Topfer Family Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Charles Schwab 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 Williamson County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Williamson County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    22report 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.
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    How do I get to United Way of Williamson County?

    Find your warmest path to United Way of Williamson County through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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