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United Way of Williamson County

UNITED WAY OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY fights for a community where every person - no matter their background, circumstances or zip code - has an equal chance at a bright future.

$3.7M
Granted FY2019
57
Grants FY2019
4
States reached
$935k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Health$2.1MHuman Services$1.9MYouth Development$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.6MEducation$294kCommunity Improvement$264kPublic Safety & Disaster$240kEmployment$217kOther$0
02FY2019 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k11 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $579k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$23,394
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS - UNDER 5000$935,335
STARSWILLIAMSON$325,188
MCHRA WM$223,695
BRIDGES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER$195,695
COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER$175,188
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TN$133,644
UW OF METROPOLITAN NASHVILLE$115,541
UW OF MID-SOUTHSHELBY CO TN$107,648
FIFTY FORWARD$106,718
FRANKLIN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$98,910
MERCY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE$86,535
WAVES INC$80,876
UW OF GREATER KNOXVILLE$70,996
42428 AMERICAN RED CROSSWILLIAMSON$66,250
HIGH HOPES INC$56,302
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 (FY17–19, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TUCKER'S HOUSE: $17k → 10%TUCKER'S HOUSE: $17k → 10%TUCKER'S HOUSE: $15k → 10%FIFTY FORWARD: $117k → 4%FIFTY FORWARD: $116k → 4%URBAN LEAGUEMEMPHIS: $9k → 17%FIFTY FORWARD: $107k → 4%URBAN LEAGUEMEMPHIS: $7k → 17%BRENTWOOD FAMILY YMCA: $21k → 4%COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER: $188k → 4%MCHRA WM: $230k → 14%COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER: $184k → 4%COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER: $175k → 4%MCHRA WM: $224k → 14%MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENC: $217k → 14%WAVES INC: $87k → 4%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SVCSWILLIAMSON: $26k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SVCSWILLIAMSON: $26k → 14%WAVES INC: $86k → 4%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SVCSWILLIAMSON: $7k → 14%WAVES INC: $81k → 4%42428 AMERICAN RED CROSSWILLIAMSON: $72k → 4%42428 AMERICAN RED CROSSWILLIAMSON: $69k → 4%42428 AMERICAN RED CROSSWILLIAMSON: $66k → 4%GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC: $56k → 4%REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING: $55k → 4%GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC: $54k → 4%MY FRIEND'S HOUSEFAM & CHILD SVCS: $52k → 4%MY FRIEND'S HOUSEFAM & CHILD SVCS: $52k → 4%GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC: $50k → 4%REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING: $50k → 4%42296 AMERICAN RED CROSSDAVIDSON C: $16k → 14%MY FRIEND'S HOUSEFAM & CHILD SVCS: $48k → 4%REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING: $47k → 4%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $15k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $9k → 14%NURSES FOR NEWBORNSWM: $28k → 14%NURSES FOR NEWBORNSWM: $24k → 14%NURSES FOR NEWBORNSWM: $23k → 14%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.5M · 59 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2019, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
12

Total granted

$8.5M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
0%

Still filing today

90%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $967k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionReligionOther
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

  • SN
    STARS NASHVILLE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.0M · revenue +272%
  • MH
    MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $671k · revenue +11%
  • CC
    Community Child Care Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $547k · revenue +74% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • VO
    VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS UNDER 5000
    one grant, 2017 · $629k
  • VA
    VARIOUS AGENCIES LESS THAN 5000
    one grant, 2018 · $540k
  • MU
    METRO UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue -32%
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
United Way of Etowah County Inc

United way brings together people and resources and collaborates with over 27 local non-profit agencies to advance the common good in etowah county.

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2
United Way of Cleveland County Inc

The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.

Philanthropy
3
United Way of Calhoun County

The mission of the united way of calhoun county is to help increase the organized capacity of people in calhoun county to care for one another.

Philanthropy
4
United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties

United way works to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another. united way is a funder, a mobilizer, a convener and a fundraiser. united way is a community builder, connecting people through philanthropy,…

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5
United Way of Waco-Mclennan County

United way of waco-mclennan county strengthens the community by mobilizing resources to measurably improve lives.

Philanthropy
6
Greene County United Way Inc

To be clearly recognized as the most effective way to serve the most people through organizing voluntary efforts aimed at strengthening the Greene County community.

Philanthropy
7
United Way of Kentucky Inc

As a focused team of leaders, united way of kentucky will align resources and work to advance education, income and health.

Philanthropy
8
United Way of the Midlands

United way connects people and resources to improve the quality of life in the midlands. united way invests in a broad range of community programs that increase access to health care, improve student success, assist people in crisis to…

Philanthropy
9
United Way of Bristol Tn-Va Inc

The mission of the united way of bristol is to bring together the resources to help people in the regional community to live healthy and productive lives. united way bristol works with dozens of community partner agencies that provide…

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10
United Way of the Ocoee Region

To be a community-based organization that leads the efforts in identifying community needs, facilitating collaboration, and maximizing resources to positively impact our community and surrounding areas.

Philanthropy
11
River Region United Way

The mission of the river region united way is to improve the quality of life in the communities it serves by creating lasting and sustainable changes in the community conditions. in its daily operation, river region united way will unite…

Philanthropy
12
United Way of Mcminn and Meigs Counties

To build a stronger, caring community by uniting our resources and enhance the human services available in mcminn and meigs counties.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc; the most unlike its peers is Company D. 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

67 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. 67 of the 76 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/67
Grantees still filing
49/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS - UNDER 5000: $935,335 · OtherVARIOUS - UNDER 5000VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS UNDER 5000: $629,082 · OtherVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS UNDER 5000VARIOUS AGENCIES LESS THAN 5000: $539,886 · OtherVARIOUS AGENCIES LESS THAN 5000UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC: $242,538 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINCHIGH HOPES INC: $169,198 · OtherCENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC: $161,760 · OtherUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENNESSEE: $147,439 · OtherWILLIAMSON COUNTY CASA INC: $140,270 · Other+25 more: $820,121 · Other+25 moreMID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY: $670,816 · Human ServicesMID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURC…Community Child Care Inc: $546,941 · Human ServicesCommunity Child Care IncSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $339,706 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS INCWAVES INC: $253,646 · Human ServicesWAVES INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $222,981 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross …GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC: $160,229 · Human ServicesGRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INCMy Friend's House Family and Children Services Inc: $152,307 · Human ServicesMy Friend's House Family and…THE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC: $151,418 · Human ServicesTHE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSE…+7 more: $324,979 · Human Services+7 moreSTARS NASHVILLE: $1,023,954 · HealthSTARS NASHVILLEBRIDGES OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY: $543,335 · HealthBRIDGES OF WILLIAMSON C…MERCY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $383,459 · HealthMERCY HEALTH SERVICES I…SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $135,200 · HealthSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER+6 more: $250,432 · Health+6 moreUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $413,034 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH: $338,189 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $295,339 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY…UNITED WAY OF MAURY COUNTY INC: $62,850 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $59,717 · Philanthropy+8 more: $175,218 · Philanthropy+8 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $310,602 · Youth DevelopmentBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $177,817 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $166,309 · Housing & ShelterSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $108,842 · Food & NutritionFEED AMERICA FIRST OF TENNESSEE: $5,416 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,785,629Human Services$2,823,023Health$2,336,380Philanthropy$1,344,347Youth Development$488,419Housing & Shelter$166,309Food & Nutrition$114,258

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY: $670,816 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCommunity Child Care Inc: $546,941 over 3y, 39% of budgetBRIDGES OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY: $543,335 over 3y, 22% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $413,034 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMERCY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $383,459 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $339,706 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH: $338,189 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $310,602 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $295,339 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWAVES INC: $253,646 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC: $242,538 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $222,981 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $177,817 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHIGH HOPES INC: $169,198 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $166,309 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetCENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC: $161,760 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetGRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC: $160,229 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC: $151,418 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENNESSEE: $147,439 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetWILLIAMSON COUNTY CASA INC: $140,270 over 3y, 12% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $135,200 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $108,842 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $75,081 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTULSA AREA UNITED WAY: $70,948 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEGIN ANEW: $68,814 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetUnited Way of Wilson County & the Upper Cumberland: $67,077 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MAURY COUNTY INC: $62,850 over 3y, 13% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $60,195 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $59,755 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $59,717 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $58,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THE CUMBERLANDS: $57,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSADDLE UP: $54,215 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTUCKER'S HOUSE: $48,320 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetGENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT INC: $46,872 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $45,260 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $44,141 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMNER COUNTY: $39,981 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetOASIS CENTER INC: $33,775 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST TENNESSEE HIGHLANDS INC: $32,199 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CLARKSVILLE REGION INC: $29,326 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $27,923 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC: $26,654 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC: $23,924 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $20,126 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC: $18,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Mid-South Inc: $17,637 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $16,200 over 3y, 0.1% 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 of Middle …The Community Foundat…Hca Healthcare Founda…The Frist FoundationMemorial Foundation I…The Healing Trust For…Nashville Predators F…Dorothy Cate and Thom…T & T Family Foundati…Aetna Foundation IncPublix Super Markets …Franklin Noon Rotary …
United Way of Middle Tennessee IncTN88× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Nashville Predators Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · T & T Family Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Franklin Noon Rotary Charitable Foundation 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 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%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
    1get no government money at all
    28report 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 76 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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