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United Way of Central Virginia Inc

United way of central virginia enhances the quality of life of our local community by improving access to healthcare, advancing education, promoting financial stability, and addressing basic human needs.

$697k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$4.5MCrime & Legal$707kHealth$662kPublic Safety & Disaster$517kEducation$465kYouth Development$452kRecreation & Sports$385kFood & Nutrition$346kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $395k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $277k
$36,667
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA$99,600
BETHUNE NURSERY SCHOOL INC$91,000
CENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING$86,275
FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC$47,000
THE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA$42,000
THE SALVATION ARMY CORPS$42,000
CASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC$42,000
LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC$40,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS BLUE RIDGE CHAPTER$36,667
VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC$34,000
YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA$28,500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA$27,200
HUMANKIND (FAMILY ALLIANCE)$26,000
BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA$20,000
JUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $13k → 8%APPOMATTOX LITERACY: $5k → 12%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $12k → 8%HUMANKIND (FAMILY ALLIANCE): $134k → 13%YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $48k → 20%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $10k → 8%YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $47k → 20%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $10k → 8%YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $44k → 20%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $10k → 8%YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $43k → 20%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $7k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $6k → 8%YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $37k → 20%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $6k → 8%BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $40k → 8%YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $29k → 20%BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $34k → 8%YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $29k → 20%BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $34k → 8%HUMANKIND (FAMILY ALLIANCE): $90k → 13%YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $22k → 20%BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $33k → 8%HUMANKIND (FAMILY ALLIANCE): $89k → 13%BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $27k → 8%BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $26k → 8%HUMANKIND (FAMILY ALLIANCE): $72k → 13%BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 8%BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 8%HUMANKIND (FAMILY ALLIANCE): $69k → 13%HUMANKIND (FAMILY ALLIANCE): $29k → 13%HUMANKIND (FAMILY ALLIANCE): $26k → 13%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $7k → 13%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $7k → 13%YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $143k → 13%YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $138k → 13%YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $135k → 13%YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $135k → 13%YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $134k → 13%YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $134k → 13%YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $101k → 13%YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $100k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 26 repeat orgs$192k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
4

Total granted

$8.1M
$192k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+58%

Still filing today

81%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCivil RightsCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • YO
    YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +12%
  • BN
    BETHUNE NURSERY SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $845k · revenue +85% · 32% of their budget
  • CV
    CENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $712k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • H(
    HUMANKIND (FAMILY ALLIANCE)
    one grant, 2017 · $178k
  • NH
    NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS OF AMHERST COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +58%
  • AL
    Appomattox Literacy Intervention Project
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lynchburg Daily Bread Inc

Provision of food for the needy

Food & Nutrition
2
Central West Virginia Aging Services Inc

Provide homemaker and case management services to home-bound seniors and disabled members in west virginia. provide, also, training and job assistance to those 55 and older on a limited income.

Human Services
3
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
4
Disability Law Center of Virginia

Dlcv's mission is to advance independence, choice and self-determination; protect legal, human, and civil rights; and eliminate abuse, neglect and discrimination of people with disabilities through zealous and uncompromising legal advocacy…

Human Services
5
Central Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc

Central virginia legal aid society (cvlas) provides free civil (non-criminal) legal assistance to low income people who have legal problem arising in the cities of richmond, petersburg, hopewell, colonial heights and charlottesville; and…

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6
Feeding Southwest Virginia

To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.

Food & Nutrition
7
Virginia Lutheran Homes Inc

Providing life-enriching services that promote well-being and build community.

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8
The Child Care and Learning Center

The establishment and operation of a child learning/daycare facility for the use, benefit, and general welfare of the children of rappahannock county, virginia.

Education
9
Lynchburg Area Center for Independent Living Inc

Provide services to individuals with disabilities to enable them to become fully integrated into society and achieve personal independence.

Human Services
10
Lynchburg Covenant Fellowship Incorporated

Provision of safe and affordable housing.

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11
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
12
Fauquier Community Child Care Inc

Our mission is to provide an accessible, safe, and nurturing environment in which school-aged children learn, grow, and play to promote the development of the whole child.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living Inc; the most unlike its peers is Neighbors Helping Neighbors of Amherst County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 30 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETHUNE NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $844,704 · OtherBETHUNE NURSERY SCHOOL INCTHE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $532,608 · OtherTHE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIALYNCHBURG COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP I GROUP INC: $509,427 · OtherLYNCHBURG COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP I GROUP INCHISTORIC VIRGINIA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS: $504,170 · OtherHISTORIC VIRGINIA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSSTHE SALVATION ARMY: $477,697 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA: $349,351 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VAADULT CARE CENTER OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC: $184,209 · OtherHUMANKIND (FAMILY ALLIANCE): $177,592 · Other+8 more: $377,060 · Other+8 moreYWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $1,019,652 · Human ServicesYWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIACENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC: $711,897 · Human ServicesCENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY…PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS: $507,650 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCSYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $298,600 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CEN…BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $234,966 · Human ServicesBEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA+3 more: $92,588 · Human ServicesFREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC: $512,145 · Health+1 more: $12,698 · HealthCASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC: $379,542 · Civil RightsVirginia Legal Aid Society Inc: $327,080 · Crime & LegalJUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $174,252 · Recreation & SportsLYNCHBURG SHELTERED INDUSTRIES INC: $40,729 · Employment
Other$3,956,818Human Services$2,865,353Health$524,843Civil Rights$379,542Crime & Legal$327,080Recreation & Sports$174,252Employment$40,729

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $1,019,652 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetBETHUNE NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $844,704 over 9y, 32% of budgetCENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC: $711,897 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $532,608 over 9y, 8.2% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC: $512,145 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetLYNCHBURG COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP I GROUP INC: $509,427 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS: $507,650 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetCASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC: $379,542 over 9y, 13% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA: $349,351 over 9y, 17% of budgetVirginia Legal Aid Society Inc: $327,080 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $298,600 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetBEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $234,966 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetADULT CARE CENTER OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC: $184,209 over 7y, 12% of budgetJUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $174,252 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetALTAVISTA AREA CAMPBELL COUNTY FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING INC: $78,099 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetLAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $73,696 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICABLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS COUNCIL: $49,359 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetLYNCHBURG SHELTERED INDUSTRIES INC: $40,729 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC: $13,828 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCAMPBELL COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC: $12,698 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetDAWN INC: $8,062 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetNEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS OF AMHERST COUNTY INC: $6,327 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF VIRGINIA SKYLINE COUNCIL INC: $5,535 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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 YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds BETHUNE NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP I GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA ↗
  • Who funds Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds ADULT CARE CENTER OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ALTAVISTA AREA CAMPBELL COUNTY FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICABLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds LYNCHBURG SHELTERED INDUSTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMPBELL COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
  • Who funds DAWN INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS OF AMHERST COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF VIRGINIA SKYLINE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds Appomattox Literacy Intervention Project ↗

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.

Greater Lynchburg Com…Centra Health IncThe Al Stroobants Fou…Easley Char Irr Tua 5…Bedford Community Hea…Schewel Charitable Fo…Foster FoundationCentra Health Foundat…Bethea S Owen Irr Cha…Walter Payne Foundati…The Imperial Charitab…M4k Lynchburg Inc
Greater Lynchburg Community FoundationVA53.4× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Centra Health Inc · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Bedford Community Health Foundation · Schewel Charitable Foundation · Foster Foundation · Centra Health Foundation · Bethea S Owen Irr Charitable Tr · Walter Payne Foundation · The Imperial Charitable Trust · M4k Lynchburg Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Central Virginia Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Central Virginia Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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