How much does Wiregrass United Way Inc give?

Wiregrass United Way Inc reported 34 grants totaling $2,565,109 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 36 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Wiregrass United Way Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (32%), Human Services (21%), Health (13%).

Who are Wiregrass United Way Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Boys and Girls Club of the Wiregrass Inc ($1.2M), Spectracare Health Systems Inc ($948k), Vivian B Adams School Board ($855k).

Does Wiregrass United Way Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wiregrass United Way Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wiregrass Foundation, Alabama Power Foundation Inc, The Jerry B Brunson Enterprise Rotary Club.

Where is Wiregrass United Way Inc based?

Wiregrass United Way Inc is based in AL.

Wiregrass United Way Inc

Wiregrass United Way Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Wiregrass United Way Inc

Program services of the wiregrass united way, inc.

$2.6M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$216k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Youth Development$4.8MHuman Services$3.2MHealth$1.9MEducation$883kEmployment$768kReligion$693kPhilanthropy$677kCrime & Legal$635kOther$0

02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $25k
$10k–50k12 grants · $386k
$50k–250k19 grants · $2.1M

$69,848

Median grant

States reached

$3.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WIREGRASS	$216,000
SPECTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEMS	$181,571
VIVIAN B ADAMS SCHOOL	$179,208
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAKE EUFAULA	$132,353
GIRLS INC	$127,800
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST ALA	$127,200
WIREGRASS REHABILITATION CENTER	$123,823
WIREGRASS UNITED WAY 2-1-1	$116,000
CHRISTIAN MISSION CENTERS	$115,100
SALVATION ARMY OF DOTHAN	$108,248
WIREGRASS AREA UNITED WAY FOOD BANK	$94,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS EAST ALABAMA	$87,500
HOUSE OF RUTH	$86,900
SOUTHEAST ALABAMA YOUTH SERVICES	$85,000
VAUGHN BLUMBERG CENTER	$80,264

02The need

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 (FY19–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$15M · 36 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$15M

$11k

Still filing today

72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEmploymentFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther

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

BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE WIREGRASS INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +38% · 30% of their budget
VB
VIVIAN B ADAMS SCHOOL BOARD
6× · 2019–2024 · $855k · revenue +7%
WR
WIREGRASS REHAB CENTER INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $768k · revenue +44%

Funded once

EP
ENTERPRISE PUBLIC LIBRARY
one grant, 2023 · $5k
AR
ALZHEIMER'S RESOURCE CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $5k

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.

Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services

Central Alabama Regional Child Advocacy Center

Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.

Crime & Legal

Child Advocacy Center of Cullman Inc

Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation

Human Services

West Alabama Childrens Advocacy Center Inc

To provide a child-focused approach to the intervention, treatment, prevention, and prosecution of child abuse cases. to provide free therapy to child abuse victims and age appropriate awareness in our school systems.

Human Services

Boys & Girls Club of Southwest Alabama Inc

The boys and girls club of southwest alabama actively works with local youth of all backgrounds to develop the qualities needed to become responsible citizens and future leaders in our community.

Youth Development

Baldwin Family Violence Shelter

To operate and maintain a protective shelter for battered and/or abused women, men, and children or those affected by family violence.

Human Services

Talladega County Child Advocacy Center Inc

Interview facility for child abuse victims.

Human Services

Southeast Alabama Child Advocacy Center

Established to serve as an advocate of children & to reduce the trauma & anxiety of victims of child abuse by providing coordinated multi- disciplinary & human approach to the investigation & interviewing process.

Human Services

Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Alabama Inc

To enable and motivate all youth within a safe environment to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens according to judeo-christian principles.

Youth Development

Rape Counselors of East Alabama Inc

To provide crisis counseling to victims of sexual assault and their family members upon reporting to the hospital or police station. also to provide community awareness of the problems of sexual assault.

Health

Boys & Girls Clubs of Harrison County Inc

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development

Christian Services for Children in Alabama

The mission of christian services for children in alabama is to show the love of christ by providing counseling and other related services to children and their families.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Alabama Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Clearing House of Barbour County Inc. 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

26 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. 26 of the 39 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

23/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,928,107Youth Development$3,311,400Human Services$3,041,265Health$1,095,165Employment$768,115Food & Nutrition$569,015Crime & Legal$340,920Philanthropy$72,921

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

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.

Wiregrass FoundationAL28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wiregrass Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Jerry B Brunson Enterprise Rotary Club · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Wiregrass United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wiregrass United Way Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

17report 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home