· Public charity
Orange County's United Way
To improve lives in orange county by delivering measurable long-term solutions to complex issues in education, financial stability, and housing.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $493k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $414k
- $250k+1 grant · $712k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABRAZAR INC | $711,500 |
| WORKING WARDROBES FOR A NEW START | $165,000 |
| THE CHRYSALIS CENTER | $106,000 |
| GOOD HANDS FOUNDATION | $88,000 |
| ANAHEIM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $55,450 |
| SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $34,065 |
| ACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES | $34,000 |
| ANAHEIM UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT | $30,000 |
| ONEOC | $26,800 |
| RADIANT FUTURES | $25,000 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICE | $24,500 |
| LAGUNA WOODS VILLAGE PC CLUB | $24,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $22,000 |
| EVERFREE | $20,000 |
| VIETNAMESE AMERICAN CANCER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $8.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
119 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 93 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AIAbrazar Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +54%
- MHMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +631%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $970k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- O(OTHERS (PASS-THRU 501C(3) & LESS THAN 5000)one grant, 2021 · $40M
- SPSACRED PATH INDIGENOUS WELLNESS CENTERone grant, 2024 · $428k · revenue 0%
- SSSpecial Service for Groups Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $48k · revenue +56%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, Inc. is a family of community health centers whose mission is to be the medical home for our patients by providing personalized, quality health care services in a culturally accessible manner.
Community legal aid socal provides compassionate, holistic, and impactful legal services to residents of los angeles and orange counties who need help with housing, family law, healthcare access and other areas of law.
The principal mission of Human Services Association is to provide families with compassionate and comprehensive care to promote wellness and build strong communities.
Our mission is to train people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities for success in life and work. We provide life empowering services to more than 450 adults with disabilities including employment, education, housing,…
To improve personal and community health and wellness within the african community by increasing the availability of culturally relevant physical and mental health services.
Open paths counseling center's mission is to meet the evolving mental health needs of the community through quality counseling for individuals and families at affordable fees; free therapy programs for at-risk children and youth in local…
To promote health equity by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of communities of color.
The organization provides health care and other related services to medically underserved populations in Los Angeles County.
La Familia Counseling Service is an inclusive Latino community-based, multi-cultural organization committed to strengthening the emotional wellness of individuals and the preservation of families.
The mission of catholic charities of orange county is to provide service to people in need, promote their voice in society, and to call the church and all people to do the same."
Western Youth Services (WYS) is a community-based nonprofit organization providing prevention and mental health treatment services for youth experiencing emotional and behavioral challenges, as well as their families. Services are…
Grandma's house of hope empowers the invisible populations of orange county by providing emergency, bridge and transitional housing with trauma-informed supportive services to single individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness.
How this is measured
170 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 170 of the 204 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Abrazar Inc ↗
- Who funds People For Irvine Community Health ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ONEOC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VITAL ACCESS CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOMS ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SACRED PATH INDIGENOUS WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY ↗
- Who funds SHANTI ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF OC COMMUNITY CLINICS ↗
- Who funds Project Hope Alliance ↗
- Who funds Illumination Institute ↗
- Who funds SANTA ANA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT PUBLIC FACILITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds GOOD HANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALIANZA TRANSLATINX ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · O L Halsell Foundation · Charitable Ventures of Orange County · Oneoc · St Joseph Health System Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Orange County's United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Orange County's United Way. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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