GrantmakersNorth Carolina

United Way of Scotland County Inc

Laurinburg, NC · EIN 56-6062713. Reported 54 grants totalling $652,109 to 22 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

22organizations funded
$9,965median reported grant
$652,109granted, 2021-2024
67%of grantees funded again the next year
13%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For United Way of Scotland County Inc, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 22 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $9,965. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $35,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
27 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
22 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
American Red CrossLaurinburg, NC$87,600442024
Project InasmuchLaurinburg, NC$75,135442024
Church Community Services of Scotland County IncLaurinburg, NC$60,375442024
Scotland Co Public Safety & EmbergeLaurinburg, NC$60,000222023
Scotland County Partnership for Children and Families IncLaurinburg, NC$51,006442024
Scotland County Humane Society IncLaurinburg, NC$48,930442024
Domestic Violence and Rape Crisis Center of Scotland CountyLaurinburg, NC$42,055332023
Gift of Love Food Pantry of Laurel Hill North CarolinaLaurel Hill, NC$38,800332024
Scots for Youth IncLaurinburg, NC$32,155442024
Scotland Youth DevelopmentLaurinburg, NC$30,470442024
Habitat for HumanityLaurinburg, NC$28,138332023
Scotland Community HealthLaurinburg, NC$22,000332023
Lumber River Development CorpPembroke, NC$15,000222024
Scotland Family Counseling Center IncLaurinburg, NC$10,045222024
Scotland Co 4-HLaurinburg, NC$8,000112021
Scotland Co Literacy CouncilLaurinburg, NC$8,000112021
Scotland County 4HLaurinburg, NC$8,000112024
Girl Scouts North Carolina Coastal Pines IncRaleigh, NC$6,400112021
My Meta Re-Entry ServicesCharlotte, NC$5,000112024
Partners in MinistryLaurinburg, NC$5,000112024
Scotland County Senior GamesLaurinburg, NC$5,000112024
Special Olympics North Carolina IncMorrisville, NC$5,000112024

14 of 22 (64%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 12 of 22 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Food & Nutrition
2 orgs
Mental Health
2 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
Human Services
1 org
Education
1 org
Animal Welfare
1 org
Youth Development
1 org
Crime & Legal
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202115$167,309$8,138
202212$175,800$15,000
202312$163,000$13,500
202415$146,000$8,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

Laurinburg, NC
$582K
Laurel Hill, NC
$39K
Pembroke, NC
$15K
Raleigh, NC
$6K
Charlotte, NC
$5K
Morrisville, NC
$5K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Morgan Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsFoundation for the Carolinas5 shared recipientsFood Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc4 shared recipientsThe Conservation Fund a Nonprofit4 shared recipientsNorth Carolina Community Foundation4 shared recipientsRestoring Hope Center Inc3 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $9,965 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from United Way of Scotland County Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 742, Laurinburg, NC, 28352.

EIN 56-6062713 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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