United Way of Southwestern Indiana Inc
Evansville, IN · EIN 35-0868069. Reported 72 grants totalling $4,474,506 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For United Way of Southwestern Indiana Inc, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 36 distinct organizations, with 12% 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.
- How much its list changes. 47% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,002. Half of what it reported fell between $11,770 and $91,213; the smallest was $5,429 and the largest $269,625. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Young Mens Christian Association of Southwestern Indiana Inc | Evansville, IN | $519,843 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Carver Community Organization Inc | Evansville, IN | $296,793 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dream Center Evansville | Evansville, IN | $250,813 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Evsc Foundation Inc | Evansville, IN | $243,788 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Catholic Charities Bureau | Evansville, IN | $228,799 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ark Inc | Evansville, IN | $228,067 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Youth First Inc | Evansville, IN | $226,585 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lampion Center Inc | Evansville, IN | $224,621 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Evansville Christian Life Center Inc | Evansville, IN | $177,604 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Evansville Inc | Evansville, IN | $175,873 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Red Cross - Sw Indiana | Evansville, IN | $163,247 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Vincent Early Learning Center Inc | Evansville, IN | $158,136 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Easter Seals Rehabilitation Center Inc | Evansville, IN | $138,240 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern Indiana Inc | Evansville, IN | $129,267 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Echo Community Health Care Inc | Evansville, IN | $127,067 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Work One | Evansville, IN | $111,080 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Albion Fellows Bacon Center Inc | Evansville, IN | $98,778 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Evansville, IN | $97,922 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Evansville Arc Inc | Evansville, IN | $92,220 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ivy Tech | Evansville, IN | $88,920 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grow Southwest Indiana Workforceboard Inc | Evansville, IN | $82,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Parenting Time Center | Evansville, IN | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Other United Way | Evansville, IN | $67,747 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Aurora Inc | Evansville, IN | $63,556 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Missing Pieces Community Development Corporation | Evansville, IN | $62,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vanderburgh County CASA Incorporated | Evansville, IN | $60,357 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Legal Aid Society of Evansville Inc | Evansville, IN | $58,150 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Christian Resource Center Inc | Rockport, IN | $50,004 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Methodist Youth Home Inc | Evansville, IN | $44,408 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Crisis Connection Inc | Jasper, IN | $30,512 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Voices Inc | Evansville, IN | $24,187 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Success Through Mentoring | Rockport, IN | $22,232 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Hoffman Estates, IL | $18,474 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Spencer County Council on Aging Inc | Rockport, IN | $16,670 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mental Health America of Vanderburgh County | Evansville, IN | $10,431 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Girl Scouts of Southwest Indiana Inc | Evansville, IN | $10,115 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
19 of 36 (53%) 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 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.
- Lampion Center
MISSION: TO STRENGTHEN AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY LIFE. PROGRAMS FUNDED BY UNITED WAY: ADVOCACY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES; COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT; COUNSELING PROGRAM - Carver Community Organization
MISSION: TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY RECREATIONAL, CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES TO SERVE ALL AGES AND BOTH SEXES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTEREST AND PARTICIPATION IN CHARACTER BUILDING PROGRAMS AND COMMUNITY BETTERMENT, AND PARTICULARLY INCLUDING THOSE SERVICES TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY OF EVANSVILLE. PROGRAMS FUNDED BY UNITED WAY: EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT, CARVER YOUTH PROGRAMS AND AARP EXPERIENCE CORPS. - Dream Center
MISSION: SHARING GOD'S LOVE BY WALKING WITH KIDS CRADLE TO CAREER, SUPPORTING THEIR FAMILIES, AND ENGAGING IN NEIGHBORHOOD TRANSFORMATION. - Ark Crisis Childcare
MISSION: KEEPING CHILDREN SAFE AND STRENGTHENING FAMILIES IN TIMES OF STRESS. PROGRAM FUNDED BY UNITED WAY: ARK'S WORKING PARENTS PROGRAM - St Vincent's Day Care Center
MISSION: TO HELP INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ACHIEVE MAXIMUM INDEPENDENCE. PROGRAMS FUNDED BY UNITED WAY: MEDICAL REHABILITATION. - American Red Cross - Sw Indiana
MISSION: THE AMERICAN RED CROSS IS A HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATION, LED BY VOLUNTEERS, THAT PROVIDES RELIEF TO VICTIMS OF DISASTER AND HELPS PEOPLE PREVENT, PREPARE FOR AND RESPOND TO EMERGENCIES. IT DOES THIS THROUGH SERVICES THAT ARE CONSISTENT WITH ITS CONGRESSIONAL CHARTER AND THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS MOVEMENT. PROGRAMS FUNDED BY UNITED WAY: CRISIS ADMINISTRATION; BIOMEDICAL SERVICES; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE & RECOVERY PROGRAM; PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION & SAFETY PROGRAM; SERVICES TO ARMED FORCES.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 of 36 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 26 | $2,286,286 | $76,503 |
| 2022 | 12 | $132,820 | $8,386 |
| 2023 | 20 | $798,849 | $23,262 |
| 2024 | 14 | $1,256,551 | $82,535 |
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
100% of its giving went to organizations in Indiana. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,002 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Indiana.
- 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 Southwestern Indiana 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.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 13 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 318 Main Street Po Box 18, Evansville, IN, 47708.
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