How much did UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND grant in FY2024?

UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND reported 100 grants totaling $9,769,774 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND based?

UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND is based in VA.

UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND

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· Public charity

UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND

UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & petersburg is a nonprofit organization that exists to mobilize the caring power of our local communities to help those in need and to create opportunities for all people to thrive.

$9.8M

Granted FY2024

100

Grants

Communities

$4.7M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

donor directeddirected designations

2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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2025

donor directdirect designations

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 100 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $94k
$10k–50k66 grants · $1.6M
$50k–250k19 grants · $1.7M
$250k+1 grant · $4.7M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants

DOMINION ENERGY POB25339$4,695,350
FAMILY LIFELINE$214,200
RAPPAHANNOCK ELECTRIC COOPERAT$176,887
YWCA RICHMOND$114,800
JAY INVESTMENT CORP$112,062
FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN$92,800
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND$91,600
APPALACHIAN POWER$90,744
SHENANDOAH VALLEY ELECTRIC$80,824
SOUTHSIDE ELECTRIC COOP$77,611
CHILDSAVERS$69,000
D&H CONSTRUCTION SERVICES INC$68,036
MECKLENBURG ELEC COOP$66,843
NORTHERN VIRGINIA ELECTRIC COO$66,326
YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND$60,200

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $9.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 7%. 93% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$76M · 135 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

135 repeat relationships — 92 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

135

Total granted

$76M

$5.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+53%

Still filing today

53%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

YR
YWCA RICHMOND
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +161%
BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +3%
FA
FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $927k · revenue +56%

Funded once

DV
DOMINION VIRGINIA POWRPOB25339
one grant, 2018 · $1.2M
CE
CHP ENERGY SOLUTIONS
one grant, 2022 · $747k
HR
HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY
one grant, 2022 · $606k · revenue -40%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Virginia Community Action

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

Community Health Center of Richmond Inc

To provide quality health care and specialty services that are affordable and accessible.

Health

Virginia Center for Inclusive

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights

Virginia Maryland and Delaware

Trade association for electric cooperatives

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People Incorporated of Virginia

To provide opportunities for economically disadvantaged people to reach their goals in order to enhance their lives, their families, and their communities.

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Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

To serve members and enhance the richmond virginia region business environment.

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Greater Charlottesville Habitat

Bring people together to build homes and communities to provide safe, decent, affordable housing

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Greater Prince William Area Community

Provide comprehensive, integrated and coordinated quality healthcare.

Health

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.

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Virginia Association of Community Banks

To provide undiluted advocacy, targeted education and quality collaboration for virginia's community banks.

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Greater Richmond Partnership Inc

Grp's purpose is to promote the economic development of the richmond metropolitan area in cooperation with member local governments. more specifically, grp's purpose is to (i) attract new businesses and industries within the jurisdiction…

Public Benefit

West Virginia Community Action Partnersh

West virginia community action partnership is an alliance of community action agencies that supports and strengthens our members, advocates for low-income and families and promotes partnerships.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Metro Habitat for Humanity and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/112

the rest of the field

13%

1,502/11,180

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

109 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

106/109

Grantees still filing

81/109

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$64,487,971Human Services$9,207,668Housing & Shelter$2,268,648Crime & Legal$1,384,936Youth Development$1,311,262Health$1,100,049Education$1,011,734

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation IncVA117.1× affinity68 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · The Pauley Family Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Altria Companies Employee Community Fund · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Robins Foundation · Bon Secours - St Mary's Hospital of Richmond Inc · Carmax Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FAMILY LIFELINE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 540737133 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FAMILY LIFELINE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way of Greater Richmond?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Greater Richmond through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

109 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Greater Richmond?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

109 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Greater Richmond?

More from the funding graph