Connecticut · Public charity
Valley United Way Inc
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community through philanthropy, volunteerism, and collaboration.
- $290k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $256k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $19,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $66,350
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $622k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Valley United Way Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 13 | $256k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $232k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $245k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $281k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $235k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $252k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $357k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $435k | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley | $653,053 | 9 | 4% |
| Lnv Parent Child Resource Center | $289,874 | 9 | n/a |
| Boy Scouts of America 69 Housatonic Council | $253,259 | 9 | 8% |
| Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc | $243,935 | 8 | 0% |
| Area Congregations Together Inc | $219,579 | 9 | 3% |
| BHcare Inc | $211,003 | 9 | 0% |
| Rape Crisis Center of Milford Inc | $143,554 | 9 | 4% |
| Team Inc | $127,952 | 9 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities Inc Archdiocese of Hartford | $125,628 | 8 | 0% |
| Hope Counseling and Behavioral Health Center | $84,521 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 22 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Valley United Way Inc supplied at peak.
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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 Valley Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · United Way of Milford Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Valley United Way Inc
- How much does Valley United Way Inc give?
- Valley United Way Inc reported 13 itemized grants totaling $255,852, out of $290,032 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Valley United Way Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (43%), Youth Development (33%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
- Who are Valley United Way Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley ($653k), Lnv Parent Child Resource Center ($290k), Boy Scouts of America 69 Housatonic Council ($253k).
- Does Valley United Way Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Valley United Way Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Valley Community Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Ion Bank Foundation Inc.
- Where is Valley United Way Inc based?
- Valley United Way Inc is based in CT.
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