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United Way of North Carolina

We bridge people, local united ways, and resources so individuals, families, and communities thrive in north carolina.

$200k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$11M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations United Way of North Carolina funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20232$200k0%
FY20222$200k50%
FY20211$19k0%
FY20202$24k50%
FY20194$100k0%
FY201812$716k58%
FY201710$159kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Public Safety & Disaster$986kPhilanthropy$431k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget United Way of North Carolina supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLumber River United Way: $434,325 over 6y, 15% of budgetUnited Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc: $238,410 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Way of Alamance County: $200,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetUnited Way of Onslow County Inc: $100,150 over 2y, 15% of budgetUnited Way of Cumberland County Inc: $71,100 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetUnited Way of Sampson County: $35,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetAlbemarle Area United Way: $26,279 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUnited Way of Wayne County Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUnited Way Tar River Region: $17,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUnited Way of Wilson County Inc: $14,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUnited Way Association of South Carolina Inc: $11,993 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Carolina 211: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUnited Way of Richmond County Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC34.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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.

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About United Way of North Carolina

How much does United Way of North Carolina give?
United Way of North Carolina reported 2 grants totaling $200,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does United Way of North Carolina fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (70%), Philanthropy (30%).
Who are United Way of North Carolina's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Lumber River United Way ($434k), United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc ($238k), United Way of Alamance County ($200k).
Does United Way of North Carolina fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of North Carolina?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, United Way Worldwide, Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation.
Where is United Way of North Carolina based?
United Way of North Carolina is based in NC.

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 19 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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