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United We

UNITED WE's mission is to advance all women's economic well-being and civic leadership.

$202k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$85k
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 2025.

Education$355kScience & Tech$343kRecreation & Sports$136kPhilanthropy$64kHealth$28kArts & Culture$26kCommunity Improvement$15kHuman Services$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$45,481
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$85,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$45,481
TULANE UNIVERSITY$41,250
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$29,150
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 (FY18–18, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $15k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IN
MO
KS
AR
SC
DC
OK
LA
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.
$719k · 9 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$719k
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+8%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyScience & TechHuman ServicesEmploymentHealthOther
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

  • UO
    University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
    4× · 2019–2024 · $129k · revenue +36%
  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    4× · 2022–2025 · $69k · revenue +19%
  • CAPITA SOCIAL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $64k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • AA
    AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +6%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +8%
  • TF
    THE FAMILY CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +28%
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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
The Kansas University Alumni Association

We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.

Education
4
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
5
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…

Education
6
Park University

Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.

Education
7
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
8
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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9
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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10
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Year Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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

14 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. 14 of the 18 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $213,450 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE: $110,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLEOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $75,882 · OtherOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITYCITY YEAR INC: $25,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INC+4 more: $42,340 · Other+4 moreUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $135,575 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $68,750 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULAN…AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC: $50,000 · EducationAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERS…PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC: $15,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCAT…MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $129,056 · Science & TechUniversity of …CAPITA SOCIAL INC: $64,286 · PhilanthropyNURTURE KC: $27,800 · HealthTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · Human ServicesKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$466,672Education$279,325Science & Tech$129,056Philanthropy$64,286Health$27,800Human Services$15,000Arts & Culture$15,000

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 budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $135,575 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $129,056 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $68,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITA SOCIAL INC: $64,286 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNURTURE KC: $27,800 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRAZEN ST LOUIS: $15,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Ewing Marion Kauffman…Greater Kansas City C…Health Forward Founda…United Way of Greater…The Francis Family Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ewing Marion Kauffman FoundationMO17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Francis Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 We funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United We. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report 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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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