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United Ways of Texas Inc

United ways of texas (uwt) exists to strengthen and support the work and impact of local united ways in texas.

$518k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$79k
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$583kHuman Services$424kPhilanthropy$292kPublic Benefit$23kEnvironment$16kEducation$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$8k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $354,479, the rows itemized in this filing. The $517,737 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $163,258 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $277k
$8,420
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN$79,348
BRIGHT BY TEXT (AKA LANTERN)$75,000
TEXAS PBS$65,000
UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY$57,393
UNITED WAY OF HAYS & CALDWELL COUNTIES$11,065
UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL BEND$10,729
THE UNITED WAY OF COMAL COUNTY$8,420
UNITED WAY GALVESTON MAINLAND$7,438
UNITED WAY OF BRAZORIA COUNTY$7,395
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS$7,268
UNITED WAY OF WACO-MCLENNAN COUNTY$6,933
UNITED WAY OF THE BRAZOS VALLEY$6,343
UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER FORT HOOD AREA$6,127
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH TEXAS$6,020
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 (FY20–24, $424k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BRIGHT BY TEXT (AKA LANTERN): $75k → 12%BRIGHT BY THREETEXT: $168k → 12%BRIGHT BY THREETEXT: $96k → 12%BRIGHT BY THREETEXT: $45k → 12%BRIGHT BY THREETEXT: $40k → 12%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 3 repeat orgs$235k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$1.1M
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+3%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther
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

  • TP
    TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $583k · revenue +65% · 48% of their budget
  • BB
    BRIGHT BEGINNINGS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $424k · revenue -36%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $115k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • United Way of Greater Houstongraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $43k · revenue +28%
  • UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $23k · revenue +3%
  • EF
    Environmental Fund For Texas Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue -36%
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 East-Central Texas

To support local united way agencies to provide needed services to community members.

Philanthropy
2
United Ways of Texas Inc

United ways of texas (uwt) exists to strengthen and support the work and impact of local united ways in texas.

Philanthropy
3
United Way of Central Texas Inc

To provide support, both managerial and financial, to human service programs of the central texas area. to bring the entire community together to find lasting solutions that change people's lives.

Philanthropy
4
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.

—
5
United Way of Wise County Inc

To conduct annual fund-raising campaigns to solicit contributions for distribution to united way agenices within wise county, texas.

Philanthropy
6
United Way of Walworth County

Collect and disburse funds for the united way

Philanthropy
7
Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

—
8
United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc

To unite our community by funding programs in the areas of education, income and health. Our goal is to create long-lasting change that prevents problems from happening in the first place. Our community is the 5 parish area of Allen,…

—
9
Matagorda County United Way

To provide aids or funding to Qualified Nonprofit agencies in and around Matagorda County, TX in order to further the mission of bringing people, organization, resources together to improve the community well being.

Philanthropy
10
Greater Waco United Fund Foundation

In connection with the united way of waco-mclennan county, texas, helping to achieve a community where all people have the education, health and stability needed to reach their full potential.

—
11
United Way of Johnson County Inc

The organization provides funding to various not-for-profit organizations which assist with the health and welfare needs of the citizens of johnson county, tx.

Philanthropy
12
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc; the most unlike its peers is United Way for Greater Austin. 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

18 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. 18 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
7/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION: $583,189 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATIONBRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $424,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHT BEGINNINGSUNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN: $114,744 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY FOR GRE…United Way of Greater Houston: $42,615 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Grea…United Way of Hays County: $11,065 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL BEND INC: $10,729 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF COMAL COUNTY: $8,420 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Brazoria County: $7,395 · Philanthropy+4 more: $26,564 · Philanthropy+4 moreUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $57,393 · OtherUnited Way of Mid & South Jefferson Co: $7,828 · OtherUNITED WAY GALVESTON COUNTY MAINLAND INC: $7,438 · OtherUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRI-COUNTY AREA: $6,127 · OtherUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $23,107 · Public BenefitEnvironmental Fund For Texas Inc: $16,000 · EnvironmentFIRST BOOK: $10,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$583,189Human Services$424,000Philanthropy$221,532Other$78,786Public Benefit$23,107Environment$16,000Education$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION: $583,189 over 8y, 48% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $424,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN: $114,744 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $42,615 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $23,107 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Fund For Texas Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUnited Way of Hays County: $11,065 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL BEND INC: $10,729 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COMAL COUNTY: $8,420 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of Mid & South Jefferson Co: $7,828 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY GALVESTON COUNTY MAINLAND INC: $7,438 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of Brazoria County: $7,395 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $7,268 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WACO-MCLENNAN COUNTY: $6,933 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUnited Way of the Brazos Valley: $6,343 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRI-COUNTY AREA: $6,127 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH TEXAS: $6,020 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 WorldwideUnited Way of San Ant…Shell USA Company Fou…AT&T FoundationCenterpoint Energy Fo…United Way of Metropo…First Community Found…Enterprise Holdings F…United Way of Tarrant…Lumen Clarke M Willia…Charities Aid Foundat…One Gas Foundation Inc
United Way WorldwideVA22.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Worldwide · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County · Shell USA Company Foundation · AT&T Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · First Community Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · United Way of Tarrant County · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · One Gas 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 Ways of Texas Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Ways of Texas 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
    9report 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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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