Illinois · Public charity
United Way of Lake County Inc
To unite leadership and resources for lasting change, by focusing on meeting the financial, social, and educational needs of families and individuals to improve their quality of life.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $137k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $18,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $51,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 45
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations United Way of Lake County Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $351k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $137k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $1.6M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $628k | 74% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $308k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $712k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $1.5M | 49% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $773k | 4% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $808k | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| One Hope United | $1,183,757 | 6 | 1% |
| Personal Assistance Telephone Help Inc | $888,713 | 2 | 7% |
| Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center | $409,469 | 7 | 3% |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago | $397,607 | 6 | 0% |
| Lake County Crisis Center | $299,686 | 5 | 3% |
| Nicasa Nfp | $267,653 | 5 | 2% |
| United Way of Greater St Louis Inc | $253,643 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of the Round Lake Area Parks Foundation Inc | $242,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Dupage County Department of Human Services | $200,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Mano a Mano Family Resource Center | $191,536 | 7 | 2% |
Show all 98 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Lake County Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Lake County Community Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Trustmark Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Give N Kind · The Chicago Community Trust · First Bank Chicago Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Gorter Family Foundation · Baxter International Foundation
How this is measured
About United Way of Lake County Inc
- How much does United Way of Lake County Inc give?
- United Way of Lake County Inc reported 6 itemized grants totaling $137,397, out of $2,595,979 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Lake County Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (40%), Health (21%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are United Way of Lake County Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: One Hope United ($1.2M), Personal Assistance Telephone Help Inc ($889k), Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center ($409k).
- Does United Way of Lake County Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Lake County Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lake County Community Foundation, John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy, Trustmark Foundation.
- Where is United Way of Lake County Inc based?
- United Way of Lake County Inc is based in IL.
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