· Public charity
United Way Quad Cities
United way qc mission is mobilizing people and resources to improve lives in our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $552k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $263k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY RESOURCES | $263,476 |
| YWCA OF QC | $222,446 |
| SAL FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES | $173,566 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE | $155,306 |
| HAND IN HAND | $152,807 |
| EVERYCHILD | $148,292 |
| YMCA OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY | $132,560 |
| ONE EIGHTY | $121,573 |
| SPRING FORWARD | $121,215 |
| IOWA LEGAL AID | $110,849 |
| TWO RIVERS YMCA | $104,463 |
| YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU RI COUNTY | $98,500 |
| PROJECT NOW | $88,061 |
| HUMILTY HOMES & SERVICES | $83,856 |
| MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES | $83,060 |
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 (FY17–25, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
88 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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
- EEVERYCHILD9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +109%
- SFSAL FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +92%
- YOYWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +292%
Funded once
- UNUNITED NEIGHBORSone grant, 2017 · $73k
- CFCENTER FOR ALCOHOL & DRUG SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $73k · revenue -16%
- UWUNITED WAYS OF IOWAone grant, 2017 · $63k · revenue -22%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany for Children & Families and the most unlike its peers is Testimonies of Hope 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 44 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 8% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
121 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. 121 of the 147 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 FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYCHILD ↗
- Who funds SAL FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES ↗
- Who funds Community Health Care Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds HUMILITY OF MARY HOUSING INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds Two Rivers YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC ↗
- Who funds MARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELING OF R I CO ↗
- Who funds BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ROCK ISLAND CO ↗
- Who funds THE 180 ZONE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT NOW INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA ↗
- Who funds SPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF EASTERN IOWA ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONS NFP ↗
- Who funds Safer Foundation ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERING ABILITIES ↗
- Who funds THE ROBERT YOUNG CENTER FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED OF THE QUAD CITY AREA ↗
- Who funds EASTERN IOWA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHHOPE ↗
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: Quad Cities Community Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · Scott County Regional Authority · Moline Foundation · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · Modern Woodmen of America · Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust
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 Quad Cities 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.