· Public charity
United Way Worldwide
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 209 grants below total $11,418,901 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $22,424,325 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,005,424 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $245k
- $10k–50k121 grants · $2.6M
- $50k–250k45 grants · $4.6M
- $250k+9 grants · $3.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $736,333 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $556,230 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA | $460,565 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON | $440,950 |
| UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC | $421,365 |
| UNITED WAY OF WISCONSIN | $390,333 |
| UNITED WAY OF CALIFORNIA | $343,333 |
| UNITED WAY SUNCOAST (FL) | $340,243 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA | $260,450 |
| UNITED WAY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $235,125 |
| UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY | $234,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $226,900 |
| UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $226,650 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA | $225,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE INC | $214,021 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $12.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $11M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: EDUCATION · HEALTH, EDUCATION · COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Stated purpose: EDUCATION, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT · COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT · EDUCATION, GENERAL CHARITABLE OPERATIONS
Stated purpose: GENERAL CHARITABLE OPERATIONS · EDUCATION · ENVIRONMENT, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY · HUMAN & SOCIAL SERVICES · INCOME, ENVIRONMENT, EDUCATION
Stated purpose: GENERAL CHARITABLE OPERATIONS · EDUCATION · HEALTH
Stated purpose: EDUCATION · GENERAL CHARITABLE OPERATIONS
Stated purpose: EDUCATION, HUMANITARIAN RELIEF · GENERAL CHARITABLE OPERATIONS
Stated purpose: EDUCATION, GENERAL CHARITABLE OPERATIONS · GENERAL CHARITABLE OPERATIONS · ENVIRONMENT
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
1745 repeat relationships — 161 still active in FY2024, 1584 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $242k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UWUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY8× · 2017–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +37%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches4× · 2017–2020 · $4.3M · revenue +46%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC4× · 2017–2020 · $4.2M · revenue +145%
Funded once
- VSVanguard Strong Start for Kids Fund - PAone grant, 2018 · $1.0M
- AFAT&T FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $756k · revenue -11%
UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $581k · revenue -74%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Invest in nonprofits, programs, collaborations that equip, empower and create opportunities for all to thrive.
To unite communities, contributors, and human service agencies to improve quality of life.
Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
Uniting our community to empower individuals and families to thrive.
Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance the university of toledo through fundraising, stewardship, and prudent asset management to provide scholarship opportunities for students, tier one athletic programs, education events…
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
To provide professional investment management and related services for the funds under management and control of the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of family medicine.
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of St Joseph County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Tech Interactive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1694 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1694 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PEACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Community Abundant Life Ministries ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds AT&T EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fund · Siemer Institute · United Ways of California · AT&T Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · First Community Foundation Inc · United Way of North Carolina · Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity · Catholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe) · Georgetown Healthcare System Inc · United Way for Greater Austin
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 organization United Way Worldwide 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% of income from government
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Central Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Northwest Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way of Brevard County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- United Way of the Big Bend Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.