Texas · Public charity
The United Way Inc
Our mission is to improve lives through the caring power of community. United way recruits people and organizations who bring passion, expertise and resources needed to raise the money to get things done. We mobilize these community resources and volunteers to meet human service needs. We connect people to services 24/7 through 2-1-1…
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $46,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $325,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The United Way Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $1.8M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $1.5M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $1.6M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $1.6M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $1.9M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $2.0M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $2.6M | 11% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $2.0M | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maverick Boys & Girls Club of Amarillo Inc | $3,080,117 | 9 | 34% |
| Family Support Services of Amarillo | $2,475,230 | 9 | 10% |
| Children's Learning Centers of Amarillo Inc | $1,550,449 | 9 | 6% |
| Catholic Charities of the Texas Panhandle | $1,163,849 | 9 | 5% |
| Golden Spread Council Inc 562 of the Boy Scouts of America | $1,159,295 | 9 | 8% |
| Panhandle Regional Planning Commiss | $814,764 | 9 | n/a |
| The Salvation Army | $752,995 | 9 | n/a |
| Goodwill of Northwest Texas | $709,871 | 9 | n/a |
| Tyler Street Resource Center Inc | $646,547 | 8 | 72% |
| Girl Scouts of Texas Oklahoma | $623,996 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 69 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The United Way Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Mary E Bivins Foundation · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · The Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Mays Foundation · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · William & Louise Mullins Foundation · Amarillo Business Foundation
How this is measured
About The United Way Inc
- How much does The United Way Inc give?
- The United Way Inc reported 24 itemized grants totaling $1,784,500, out of $2,059,129 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The United Way Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Youth Development (29%), Education (11%).
- Who are The United Way Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Maverick Boys & Girls Club of Amarillo Inc ($3.1M), Family Support Services of Amarillo ($2.5M), Children's Learning Centers of Amarillo Inc ($1.6M).
- Does The United Way Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The United Way Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amarillo Area Foundation Inc, Mary E Bivins Foundation, High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation.
- Where is The United Way Inc based?
- The United Way Inc is based in TX.
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