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United Way of Florida Inc

To enhance the local florida united ways' efforts to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.1M
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.

Public Safety & Disaster$5.7MPhilanthropy$1.7MArts & Culture$51kPublic Benefit$29kEmployment$9k
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $337k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$58,387
Median grant
1
States reached
$462k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY SUNCOAST$1,083,524
HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY$311,184
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$184,447
UNITED WAY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$161,577
UNITED WAY OF PASCO COUNTY$151,883
UNITED WAY OF LEE HENDRY AND GLADES INC$135,906
UNITED WAY OF VOLUSIA-FLAGLER COUNTIES$121,008
UNITED WAY OF LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES$82,758
UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA$61,086
UNITED WAY OF THE BIG BEND$60,286
UNITED WAY OF ST LUCIE & OKEECHOBEE$58,387
UNITED WAY OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY$49,016
UNITED WAY OF COLLIER & THE KEYS$48,459
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY$47,857
UNITED WAY OF HERNANDO COUNTY$42,049
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED WAY OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY: $58k → 9%UNITED WAY OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY: $173k → 9%UNITED WAY OF LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES: $83k → 10%UNITED WAY OF COLLIER & THE KEYS: $181k → 10%UNITED WAY OF PASCO COUNTY: $152k → 11%UNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY: $515k → 11%UNITED WAY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $162k → 11%UNITED WAY OF HERNANDO COUNTY: $42k → 12%HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY: $311k → 13%UNITED WAY SUNCOAST: $1.1M → 13%UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY: $68k → 13%UNITED WAY OF ST LUCIE & OKEECHOBEE: $58k → 13%UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA: $102k → 14%UNITED WAY OF MIAMI-DADE INC: $98k → 15%UNITED WAY OF MARION COUNTY: $24k → 16%UNITED WAY OF CITRUS COUNTY: $31k → 17%UNITED WAY OF SUWANNEE VALLEY: $82k → 19%UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA: $61k → 19%UNITED WAY OF PUTNAM COUNTY INC: $24k → 23%UNITED WAY OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY: $49k → 9%UNITED WAY OF COLLIER COUNTY: $74k → 10%UNITED WAY OF LEE HENDRY AND GLADES INC: $136k → 11%UNITED WAY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $96k → 11%HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY: $75k → 13%UNITED WAY SUNCOAST: $921k → 13%UNITED WAY OF BROWARD CO: $44k → 13%UNITED WAY MIAMI: $90k → 15%UNITED WAY OF CITRUS COUNTY INC: $24k → 17%UNITED WAY OF THE BIG BEND: $60k → 19%UNITED WAY OF SUWANNEE VALLEY: $30k → 19%UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA: $55k → 19%UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC: $75k → 9%UNITED WAY OF COLLIER & THE KEYS: $48k → 10%UNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY: $91k → 11%UNITED WAY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $25k → 11%HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY: $38k → 13%UNITED WAY SUNCOAST: $218k → 13%UNITED WAY OF BROWARD CO: $41k → 13%UNITED WAY OF MIAMI-DADE INC: $54k → 15%UNITED WAY OF THE BIG BEND: $58k → 19%UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA: $27k → 19%UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC: $45k → 9%UNITED WAY OF VOLUSIA-FLAGLER: $213k → 12%HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY: $30k → 13%UNITED WAY OF THE BIG BEND: $31k → 19%UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC: $30k → 9%UNITED WAY OF VOLUSIA-FLAGLER COUNTIES: $121k → 12%UNITED WAY OF VOLUSIA-FLAGLER COUNT: $25k → 12%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.
$6.8M · 27 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
5

Total granted

$6.8M
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

96%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’23’24’25
PhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • The United Way of Lee County Inc
    5× · 2017–2025 · $779k · revenue +137%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $346k · revenue +335%
  • UW
    United Way of Central Florida Inc
    5× · 2017–2025 · $274k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • GC
    Gannett Co
    one grant, 2024 · $51k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF PUTNAM COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $24k
  • FC
    Florida Center For Fiscal and Econo
    one grant, 2018 · $19k · revenue -28%
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
United Way of Florida Inc

To enhance the local florida united ways' efforts to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.

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2
United Way of Comal County

To engage the community and focus resources for those in need in comal county

Philanthropy
3
United Way of Lee County Inc

The mission of united way is to increase the organzied capacity of people to care for one another.

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4
United Way of Umatilla & Morrow Counties

United way of umatilla and morrow counties empowers individual givers to support their communities in caring for those in need.

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5
United Way of Coastal Carolina Inc

The united way of coastal carolina, inc. strives to meet the current and emerging human needs in craven, carteret, jones, and pamlico counties by mobilizing the resources of community organizations, agencies, recipients, and volunteers.

Philanthropy
6
United Way of Waco-Mclennan County

United way of waco-mclennan county strengthens the community by mobilizing resources to measurably improve lives.

Philanthropy
7
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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8
United Way of Whiteside County

Providing dynamic leadership in uniting people and resources to create lasting change that improves lives and strengthens our communities.

Philanthropy
9
United Way Manitowoc County Inc

United way's mission is to improve lives.

Philanthropy
10
United Way of Calhoun County

The mission of the united way of calhoun county is to help increase the organized capacity of people in calhoun county to care for one another.

Philanthropy
11
United Way of Williams County

The united way of williams county improves the quality of life within its community by connecting volunteers, organizations and resources to advance health, education, and financial stability.

Philanthropy
12
United Way of Union County Inc

The mission of the united way of union county is to bring neighbors and resources together to improve lives.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northeast Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is Florida Center for Fiscal and Econo. 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

32 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. 32 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/32
Grantees still filing
15/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC: $2,394,493 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY SUNCOAST INCThe United Way of Lee County Inc: $779,170 · PhilanthropyThe United Way of Lee County IncHEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC: $476,218 · PhilanthropyHEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INCUNITED WAY OF VOLUSIA-FLAGLER COUNTIES INC: $381,822 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF VOLUSIA-FLAGLER COUNTIES INCUNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC: $346,363 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $334,232 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Central Florida Inc: $273,567 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY MIAMI INC: $241,920 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY INC: $237,785 · Philanthropy+13 more: $1,294,024 · Philanthropy+13 moreUNITED WAY OF PASCO COUNTY INC: $169,220 · OtherUNITED WAY…United Way of the Florida Keys Inc: $113,161 · OtherUnited Way…United Way of Suwannee Valley Inc: $112,495 · OtherUnited Way…UNITED WAY OF ST JOHNS COUNTY INC: $103,478 · OtherUNITED WAY…UNITED WAY OF CITRUS COUNTY INC: $55,485 · OtherUNITED WAY…Gannett Co: $50,569 · OtherGannett CoUNITED WAY OF BREVARD COUNTY INC: $39,391 · OtherUNITED WAY…UNITED WAY OF PUTNAM COUNTY INC: $24,188 · Other+3 more: $41,072 · Other+3 moreFlorida Center For Fiscal and Econo: $19,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$6,759,594Other$709,059Public Benefit$19,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC: $2,394,493 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetThe United Way of Lee County Inc: $779,170 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC: $476,218 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VOLUSIA-FLAGLER COUNTIES INC: $381,822 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC: $346,363 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $334,232 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetUnited Way of Central Florida Inc: $273,567 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY MIAMI INC: $241,920 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY INC: $237,785 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PASCO COUNTY INC: $169,220 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BIG BEND INC: $159,298 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $158,755 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $153,302 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of North Central Florida Inc: $150,917 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $120,496 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetUnited Way of Suwannee Valley Inc: $112,495 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ST JOHNS COUNTY INC: $103,478 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $103,042 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetUnited Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc: $97,758 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $79,185 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ST LUCIE & OKEECHOBEE INC: $78,808 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HERNANDO COUNTY: $74,786 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CITRUS COUNTY INC: $55,485 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $45,345 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Way of Marion County Inc: $40,793 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BREVARD COUNTY INC: $39,391 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEST FLORIDA INC: $31,539 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PUTNAM COUNTY INC: $24,188 over 1y, 25% of budgetUNITED WAY EMERALD COAST: $22,572 over 2y, 1.2% 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.

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.

AT&T FoundationPublix Super Markets …Volunteer Florida Fou…United Way WorldwideTruist Foundation IncCapital City Bank Gro…Hca Healthcare Founda…Givewell Community Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Blue Cross Blue Shiel…Lumen Clarke M Willia…Duke Energy Foundation
AT&T FoundationTX25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AT&T Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · Truist Foundation Inc · Capital City Bank Group Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Givewell Community Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation

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 Florida Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Florida Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • United Way of Broward County Inc: 27% of income from government
  • United Way Miami Inc: 23% of income from government
  • United Way of Pasco County Inc: 17% of income from government
  • United Way of Suwannee Valley Inc: 12% of income from government
  • United Way Emerald Coast: 9% of income from government
  • United Way of Martin County Inc: 4% of income from government
  • United Way of Marion County Inc: 4% of income from government
  • United Way of North Central Florida Inc: 3% of income from government
  • United Way of West Florida Inc: 3% of income from government
  • United Way of South Sarasota County Inc: 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Northwest Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Northeast Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties Inc: 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc: 1% of income from government
  • United Way of Indian River County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • United Way of Hernando County: 1% of income from government
  • United Way of Palm Beach County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • United Way Suncoast Inc: 1% of income from government
  • United Way of St Johns County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The United Way of Lee County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • United Way of Brevard County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Heart of Florida United Way Inc: 0% of income from government
  • United Way of the Big Bend Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 34 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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