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United Way of South Central

Bloomington, IN · EIN 35-0985959. Reported 113 grants totalling $2,987,546 to 49 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

49organizations funded
$23,000median reported grant
$2,987,546granted, 2021-2024
82%of grantees funded again the next year
8%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 South Central, 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. 49 distinct organizations, with 8% 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. 82% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $23,000. Half of what it reported fell between $12,000 and $35,000; the smallest was $5,075 and the largest $105,401. 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
19 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
46 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
33 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
14 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
1 grant

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
Hoosier Hills Food Bank IncBloomington, IN$239,492442024
Middle Way House IncBloomington, IN$173,882442024
Planned Parenthood of IndianaIndianapolis, IN$155,038442024
Boys & Girls Club of BloomingtonBloomington, IN$152,462442024
Healthnet IncIndianapolis, IN$147,551332023
Community Kitchen of Monroe County IncBloomington, IN$147,335442024
Stone Belt Arc IncBloomington, IN$147,111442024
Mother Hubbards Cupboard IncBloomington, IN$138,971442024
Beacon IncBloomington, IN$138,853332023
Catholic Charities Bloomington IncBloomington, IN$133,498542024
New Hope Family Shelter IncBloomington, IN$127,444442024
Area 10 Council on AgingEllettsville, IN$99,485442024
Greene County Foundation IncBloomfield, IN$95,209112021
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Monroe County IncBloomington, IN$91,423442024
Pathways IncBloomington, IN$88,107442024
Amethyst House IncBloomington, IN$67,018442024
Salvation ArmyBloomington, IN$63,504442024
Owen County Community FoundationSpencer, IN$62,008112021
Indiana Legal Services IncIndianapolis, IN$61,832442024
American Red CrossBloomington, IN$52,270442024
Lifedesigns IncBloomington, IN$50,225112021
Fathers Forever Coalition IncBedford, IN$43,000112021
Monroe County Community Schools Assistance FundBloomington, IN$37,453442024
Girls IncBloomington, IN$37,166222022
Berthas MissionBedford, IN$35,000112021
Cancer Support Community - Central Indiana IncIndianapolis, IN$34,277442024
Boy Scouts of AmericaBloomington, IN$25,851332023
Hoosier Uplands Economic Development CorporationMitchell, IN$25,000112021
Love Never FailsFrench Lick, IN$25,000112021
Wheeler Mission Ministries IncIndianapolis, IN$24,000112021
Shalom Community CenterBloomington, IN$23,991112024
Pantry 279 IncBloomington, IN$23,000112021
Brown County Community Foundation IncNashville, IN$22,658112021
Citizens for Community Justice IncBloomington, IN$21,070112021
People and Animal Learning Services IncBloomington, IN$21,007222022
Southern Indiana Community Health CarePaoli, IN$20,000112021
I U Health FoundationBloomington, IN$18,316112021
Girl Scouts of Central Indiana IncIndianapolis, IN$15,570222023
Indiana Recovery AllainceBloomington, IN$14,000112021
Society of St Vincent De Paul Archdiocesan Council ofIndianapolis, IN$12,000112021
La Central Latina IncBloomington, IN$11,000112021
CosmosMitchell, IN$10,000112021
Youth First IncEvansville, IN$10,000112021
New Leaf-New Life IncBloomington, IN$8,679112021
Bloomington Refugee Support Network IncBloomington, IN$8,500112021
Courage to Change Sober LivingBloomington, IN$8,000112021
Boy Scouts Hoosier TrailsBloomington, IN$7,412112024
Girls Inc of Monroe CountyBloomington, IN$7,192112024
Rbbs School Assistance FundEllettsville, IN$5,686112021

24 of 49 (49%) 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.

It also reported 1 group of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 of 49 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.

Human Services
8 orgs
Food & Nutrition
5 orgs
Health Care
5 orgs
Crime & Legal
4 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 orgs
Youth Development
2 orgs
Education
2 orgs
Housing & Shelter
2 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202146$1,457,186$24,723
202224$517,519$22,393
202322$639,630$23,831
202421$373,211$16,872

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

Bloomington, IN
$2.1M
Indianapolis, IN
$450K
Ellettsville, IN
$105K
Bloomfield, IN
$95K
Bedford, IN
$78K
Spencer, IN
$62K
Mitchell, IN
$35K
French Lick, IN
$25K

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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.

Community Foundation of Bloomington23 shared recipientsDuke Energy Foundation20 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund19 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc17 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc16 shared recipientsThe Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc15 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 $23,000 -- 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 Indiana.
  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 South Central'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: 431 S College Avenue, Bloomington, IN, 47403.

EIN 35-0985959 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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