GrantmakersGeorgia

United Way of Forsyth County Inc

Cumming, GA · EIN 58-1925396. Reported 68 grants totalling $2,997,087 to 24 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

24organizations funded
$34,387median reported grant
$2,997,087granted, 2021-2024
85%of grantees funded again the next year
18%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 Forsyth 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. 24 distinct organizations, with 18% 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. 85% 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 $34,387. Half of what it reported fell between $13,305 and $53,550; the smallest was $5,535 and the largest $298,800. 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
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
17 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
19 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
17 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
5 grants
$250,000 Or More
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
Corner FarmsCumming, GA$536,818222022
Georgia Highlands Medical Services IncCumming, GA$435,375442024
The Childrens Center for Hope and Healing IncGainesville, GA$247,968442024
Mentor Me - North Georgia IncCumming, GA$197,701442024
Bald Ridge Lodge IncCumming, GA$188,744442024
CASA of Forsyth County IncCumming, GA$185,270442024
Boy Scouts of AmericaIrving, TX$182,531442024
Forsyth County Schools - Credit Recovery ProgramCumming, GA$150,875332023
Jesses House IncCumming, GA$146,358442024
United Way of Forsyth County IncCumming, GA$134,573332023
American National Red CrossWashington, DC$99,652442024
Rape Response IncGainesville, GA$74,387332024
Good Shepherd Clinic of Dawson County IncDawsonville, GA$70,720332024
Boys & Girls Club of Lanier IncGainesville, GA$60,936112021
Place of Forsyth County IncCumming, GA$43,853222023
Creative Enterprises IncLawrenceville, GA$43,750222023
Other - Less Than 5000$38,850222024
Sisu of Georgia IncGainesville, GA$33,710222023
Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta IncMableton, GA$30,938222023
Society of St Vincent De Paul Georgia IncAtlanta, GA$30,000332024
Dawson County Family Connection IncDawsonville, GA$22,760332024
Georgia Extension 4-H Foundation IncAthens, GA$19,973222024
N O a S Ark IncDahlonega, GA$15,245222024
Hall-Dawson CASA Program IncGainesville, GA$6,100112023

22 of 24 (92%) 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 of 24 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
Youth Development
4 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Mental Health
2 orgs
Crime & Legal
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Housing & Shelter
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202113$870,831$51,250
202218$974,911$43,624
202322$730,554$25,762
202415$420,791$21,620

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

90% 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
$2.7M
Texas
$183K
District of Columbia
$100K

Down to the city

Cumming, GA
$2.0M
Gainesville, GA
$423K
Irving, TX
$183K
Washington, DC
$100K
Dawsonville, GA
$93K
Lawrenceville, GA
$44K

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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.

North Georgia Community Foundation13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc10 shared recipientsJackson Emc Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsGeorgia Power Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsPublix Super Markets Charities Inc8 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation for Greater7 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 $34,387 -- 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 Forsyth 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 15 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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 1350, Cumming, GA, 30028.

EIN 58-1925396 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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