GrantmakersGeorgia

United Way of Colquitt County Inc

Moultrie, GA · EIN 58-0955533. Reported 88 grants totalling $1,988,034 to 31 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

31organizations funded
$15,500median reported grant
$1,988,034granted, 2021-2024
88%of grantees funded again the next year
15%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 Colquitt County Inc, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 31 distinct organizations, with 15% 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. 88% 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 $15,500. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $78,000. 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
16 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
49 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
10 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
13 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
Southwest Georgia Community Action Council IncMoultrie, GA$303,000442024
Boys and Girls Clubs of Moultrie Colquitt County IncMoultrie, GA$260,320442024
Young Mens Christian Association-Moultrie YMCAMoultrie, GA$185,000442024
Colquitt County Arts Council IncMoultrie, GA$181,800442024
Hero House the Childrens Advocacy Center of Colquitt County IncMoultrie, GA$115,030642024
Colquitt County Serinity House Project IncMoultrie, GA$103,100442024
Cross Road Gospel Rescue Mission IncMoultrie, GA$72,716442024
Colquitt County Board of EducMoultrie, GA$70,500442024
Mcc Parks & RecreationMoultrie, GA$65,000112024
Childrens Cheer & Toy Shop IncMoultrie, GA$64,400442024
Sowega Council on Aging IncAlbany, GA$64,000442024
American National Red CrossWashington, DC$60,000442024
Green Oaks CenterMoultrie, GA$56,500442024
Colquitt Food and Clothing Bank IncMoultrie, GA$50,000442024
Special EventsMoultrie, GA$35,253222024
Colquitt County 4-HMoultrie, GA$34,833332024
One World LinkCollege Park, GA$30,000222024
The Salvation ArmyBrookhaven, GA$30,000332023
Legendary Foundation IncMoultrie, GA$24,000332023
Moultriecc LibraryMoultrie, GA$24,000332024
Special Olympics Georgia IncNorcross, GA$21,400222024
Breathe OrganizationMoultrie, GA$18,000222024
Cc Educational FoundationMoultrie, GA$18,000222024
Colquitt Regional Medical CenterMoultrie, GA$16,299222024
Teens Have Visions 2 IncMoultrie, GA$15,335222024
Never Lost IncThomasville, GA$15,000222022
Colquitt County SchoolsMoultrie, GA$13,821112022
University of GeorgiaAthens, GA$12,000112022
Special Olympics GeorgiaAtlant, GA$10,727112022
MccdaMoultrie, GA$10,000112022
Locate South Georgia Foundation IncThomasville, GA$8,000112023

25 of 31 (81%) 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 5 groups 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 16 of 31 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
7 orgs
Youth Development
4 orgs
Crime & Legal
1 org
Recreation & Sports
1 org
Health Care
1 org
Civil Rights
1 org
Education
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202117$406,623$16,000
202222$493,024$13,660
202325$548,740$15,000
202424$539,647$16,000

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

97% of its giving went to organizations in Georgia. 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.

Georgia
$1.9M
District of Columbia
$60K

Down to the city

Moultrie, GA
$1.7M
Albany, GA
$64K
Washington, DC
$60K
College Park, GA
$30K
Brookhaven, GA
$30K
Thomasville, GA
$23K

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Funders that support the same organizations

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Second Harvest of3 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund3 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund2 shared recipientsGs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund2 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc2 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 $15,500 -- 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 Georgia.
  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 Colquitt 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.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 16 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 8 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: Po Box 969, Moultrie, GA, 31776.

EIN 58-0955533 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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