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United Way of Greater Charlottesville

The UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE connects our community, enabling individuals and families to achieve their potential.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
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.

Health$1.2MHuman Services$784kCommunity Improvement$527kHousing & Shelter$323kEducation$208kEmployment$174kFood & Nutrition$171kYouth Development$164kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 34 grants below total $384,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,338,302 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $954,302 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $263k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PIEDMONT YMCA EARLY LEARNING CENTER$50,000
PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH$22,500
PIPER IVY PRESCHOOL$20,000
KIDZ NATION - HARVEST CHURCH$20,000
434TH ST CATERING LLC$10,000
A MOTHER'S TOUCH CHILDCARE$10,000
FLAVOR-MART$10,000
SECOND SERVE TENNIS$10,000
BAKERNOBAKERY$10,000
DREADHEAD LLC$10,000
CAVALIER BARBERS$10,000
SVN7VII BRAND$10,000
STEPPEMEDIA$10,000
EVOLVE BODY SCUPLTING$10,000
THE SCRAPPY ELEPHANT$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $716k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%READYKIDS: $113k → 8%READYKIDS: $80k → 8%READYKIDS: $73k → 8%READYKIDS: $52k → 8%READYKIDS: $50k → 8%PIEDMONT YMCA EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $50k → 8%CHARLOTTESVILLE ABUNDANT LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $49k → 8%CHARLOTTESVILLE ABUNDANT LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $34k → 8%READYKIDS: $30k → 8%NEW HILL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $20k → 8%THE HAVEN: $13k → 8%GEORGIA'S FRIENDS: $10k → 8%ARC OF THE PIEDMONT: $8k → 8%PIEDMONT YMCA INTERGENERATIONAL CENTER: $40k → 8%YMCA INTERGENERATIONAL LEARNING CENTER: $30k → 8%PIEDMONT YMCA INTERGENERATIONAL CENTER: $30k → 8%CITY OF PROMISE: $10k → 8%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 26 repeat orgs$787k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
31

Total granted

$3.1M
$473k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+30%

Still filing today

88%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $314k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CH
    CHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $661k · revenue +7%
  • RI
    READYKIDS INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $398k · revenue +31%
  • TW
    THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $192k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • IN
    International Neighbors Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +250%
  • PV
    PIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -63%
  • BG
    BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +96%
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
The Commonwealth Institute for

To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.

Public Benefit
2
Central Virginia Housing Coalition

Central virginia housing coalition improves the regional quality of life by providing affordable housing opportunities to low income families through coalition, education, counseling, and financial assistance.

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3
Communityworks in West Virginia Inc

Communityworks in west virignia (cwwv) creates housing and community development solutions for all west virginians through a network of member organizations. cwwv carries out its mission by providing effective training and technical…

Housing & Shelter
4
Virginia Community Development Corp

VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.

Housing & Shelter
5
Ywca of Central Virginia

The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.

Human Services
6
Charlottes Community Outreach

Organized KHAOS is a 12 week curriculum provided by KHAOS Koaches to teach kids how to assess, address, and reduce the impact of toxic and traumatic stress in t heir lives. This program is provided in schools and community organizations.…

Human Services
7
Central Virginia Health Services Inc

Central virginia health services, inc. (organization) is a non-profit health care organization with locations in bowling green, charles city, new canton, charlotte court house, farmville, alberta, petersburg, aylett, hopewell, montross,…

Health
8
Central Virginia Partnership for Economic Development

To promote economic development in the charlottesville and central virginia region.

—
9
New Virginia Majority

New Virginia Majority is a grassroots organization that works with low income people in local communities through leadership development, trainings and workshops, issue education and advocacy.

Civil Rights
10
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
11
Charlottesville Public Housing Association of Residents Inc

To educate and empower low-income residents to protect and improve our own communities through collective action. phar has a recognized federal mandate to represent residents in all aspects of charlottesville redevelopment & housing…

Housing & Shelter
12
Habitat for Humanity Virginia

Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monticello Area Community Action Agency; the most unlike its peers is The 30 Day Fund 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

45 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. 45 of the 88 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
31/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC: $661,455 · OtherCHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INCGREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $147,600 · OtherGREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCBLUE RIDGE HEALTH CENTER INC: $143,500 · OtherBLUE RIDGE HEALTH CENTER INCLOCAL FOOD HUB INC: $75,500 · OtherMONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $67,000 · OtherOffender Aid and Restoration of Charlottesville and Albemarle: $90,100 · OtherCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT COLLABORATIVE: $85,000 · Other+55 more: $710,440 · Other+55 moreREADYKIDS INC: $398,330 · Human ServicesREADYKIDS INCPIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC: $149,946 · Human ServicesPIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA I…CHARLOTTESVILLE ABUNDANT LIFE MINISTRIES: $82,600 · Human ServicesCHARLOTTESVILLE ABUNDA…CITY OF PROMISE INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF PROMISE INC+5 more: $75,000 · Human Services+5 moreTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $192,000 · HealthTHE WOMEN'S …CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $134,500 · HealthCHARLOTTESVI…ON OUR OWN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA INC: $104,900 · HealthON OUR OWN C…RECLAIMED HOPE INITIATIVE: $15,000 · HealthCultivate Charlottesville: $76,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $73,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPUTERS4KIDS: $58,700 · Youth DevelopmentTHE UHURU FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYouth Development Council of Greene County: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE ALBEMARLE: $107,600 · EducationPIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationAFRICAN AMERICAN TEACHING FELLOWS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE INC: $25,000 · Education100 Black Men of Central Virginia: $15,000 · EducationSOHO CENTER FOR ARTS AND EDUCATION INC: $8,000 · EducationWorkSource Enterprises: $174,386 · EmploymentPIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE: $95,000 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE AND CONGREGATIONS ENGAGED IN MINISTRY: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,980,595Human Services$760,876Health$446,400Youth Development$240,200Education$185,600Employment$174,386Housing & Shelter$125,000

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 budgetCHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC: $661,455 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetREADYKIDS INC: $398,330 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $192,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetWorkSource Enterprises: $174,386 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetPIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC: $149,946 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $147,600 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBLUE RIDGE HEALTH CENTER INC: $143,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $134,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE ALBEMARLE: $107,600 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetON OUR OWN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA INC: $104,900 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetPIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE: $95,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetOffender Aid and Restoration of Charlottesville and Albemarle: $90,100 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT COLLABORATIVE: $85,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE ABUNDANT LIFE MINISTRIES: $82,600 over 2y, 11% of budgetCultivate Charlottesville: $76,500 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetLOCAL FOOD HUB INC: $75,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $73,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $67,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOMPUTERS4KIDS: $58,700 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetCITY OF PROMISE INC: $55,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTHE 30 DAY FUND INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Neighbors Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPEOPLE AND CONGREGATIONS ENGAGED IN MINISTRY: $30,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN TEACHING FELLOWS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetUNITED WAY OF STAUNTON AUGUSTA COUNTY & WAYNESBORO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetFOOTHILLS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNEW HILL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE UHURU FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE MINISTRY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRECLAIMED HOPE INITIATIVE: $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budget100 Black Men of Central Virginia: $15,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTHE HAVEN AT FIRST AND MARKET INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE: $11,440 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetELK HILL FARM INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSOHO CENTER FOR ARTS AND EDUCATION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Charlottesville Area …The J & E Berkley Fou…Manning Family Founda…Perry Foundation IncCaplin FoundationThe Genan FoundationSentara HealthThe Charles Fund IncOakwood Foundation Ch…Thomas C & Mary Ann H…The Oak Hill FundS&P Global Foundation…
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA83.1× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · Caplin Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Sentara Health · The Charles Fund Inc · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Thomas C & Mary Ann Hays Fam Char Tr · The Oak Hill Fund · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research 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 Greater Charlottesville funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Greater Charlottesville. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 88 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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