How much does United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg give?

United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg reported 53 itemized grants totaling $1,950,200, out of $2,991,597 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 90 and 127 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (63%), Human Services (17%), Housing & Shelter (5%).

Who are United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Family Lifeline ($3.4M), YWCA Richmond ($1.7M), Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond ($1.4M).

Does United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Herndon Foundation, Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition.

Where is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg based?

United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg is based in VA.

United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg

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· Public charity

United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg

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.

$3.0M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$214k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$56MHuman Services$15MHousing & Shelter$4.3MHealth$3.7MYouth Development$2.5MEducation$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.6MCommunity Improvement$819kOther$0

02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 53 grants below total $1,950,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,991,597 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,041,397 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

$10k–50k43 grants · $1.1M
$50k–250k10 grants · $859k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FAMILY LIFELINE	$214,200
YWCA RICHMOND	$114,800
FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN	$92,800
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND	$91,600
CHILDSAVERS	$69,000
YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND	$60,200
SOAR365 (FORMERLY GREATER RICHMOND ARC)	$56,200
HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST	$54,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD	$53,200
OAR OF RICHMOND INC	$53,000
THE SALVATION ARMY	$45,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES	$44,200
THRIVE VIRGINIA (FORMERLY QUIN RIVERS)	$43,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND	$41,000
ST JOSEPH'S VILLA	$39,000

02The need

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, $12.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$83M · 147 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

147 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2025, 95 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

147

Total granted

$83M

$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+23%

Still filing today

56%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

FL
FAMILY LIFELINE
9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +12%
YR
YWCA RICHMOND
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +190%
FA
FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +54%

Funded once

DV
DOMINION VIRGINIA POWRPOB25339
one grant, 2018 · $1.2M
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $747k
RE
RAPPAHANNOCK ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
one grant, 2022 · $289k · revenue +23%

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.

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

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

Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.

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Community Health Center of Richmond Inc

The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.

Health

Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health

Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health

Virginia Maryland and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives

Trade association for electric cooperatives

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SeniorNavigatorcom

SeniorNavigator and its family of websites are national models for aging, disability and veteran information. By combining online assistance with a network of community-based centers, the websites bring over 26,000 community resources,…

Community Improvement

Greater Richmond Partnership Inc

GRP's mission is to aggressively generate economic opportunities that create quality jobs for residents in the region and increase the tax base for needed community services.

Public Benefit

Chip of Virginia

Chip of virginia administers and monitors a network of 7 agencies in 27 virginia localities who work with low-income families to assure that children from birth to age 6 receive the health care necessary for them to lead healthy lives,…

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Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education

Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

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

Civil Rights

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg; the most unlike its peers is Yesusa Transformational Cities. 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

125 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. 125 of the 231 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

122/125

Grantees still filing

99/125

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$66,598,592Human Services$12,161,611Housing & Shelter$2,893,220Crime & Legal$1,849,935Youth Development$1,769,518Health$1,481,203Education$1,155,014

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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.

The Community Foundation IncVA103.8× affinity60 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Herndon Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · The Pauley Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Robins Foundation · Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc · Altria Companies Employee Community Fund · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Bon Secours Mercy Health 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 Greater Richmond & Petersburg funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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