Wisconsin · Nonprofit
BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY
BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,742,298 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($886,483). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Brown County United Way does
Mission
Brown County United Way unites people, ideas, and resources to create community solutions that strengthen every person and every community in brown county.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Brown County United Way strives for an inclusive community where every person in our community is able to meet their basic needs and have equal opportunity for stability in their health, education, financial well-being, and connection to community.
$1,611,475 spentof which $1,611,475 as grants$20,930 earned by the program53% of program spendingProgram investment - investing in local direct service programs to positively impact individuals. During 2025, our program investment portfolio included grants to 26 programs. These programs provided direct assistance in our community, within the priority investment areas of education, health, financial wellbeing, and connection to community
$371,269 spent12% of program spendingImpact initiatives and advocacy solutions - in the area of impact initiatives, we are leading and partnering on efforts to bring about physical and social environment change to improve community systems. Beginning in 2019, the majority of our impact initiatives became place-based, focusing primarily on neighborhoods. Our central objectives are to improve social cohesion, growth, and vitality through research, evidence, community partnerships, and the voices of residents, helping to ensure that neighborhoods are safe places where people can thrive. In support of this work, during 2025 our community investment staff organized and lead community building activities, numerous volunteer projects, and events, and surveyed community members. Our neighborhood partnership grant program, established in 2020, continued to invest in neighborhood-based projects and initiatives, including a community gardens project. The staff team also organized trauma-informed care trainings for human service providers and other partners, began developing a new training program focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.with respect to advocacy solutions, our objective in this area is to seek out…
$460,323 spent15% of program spendingInformation and referral services: Brown County United Way's 2-1-1 contact center is a free, confidential information and referral service that made thousands of referrals to community resources in 2025. A comprehensive community resource database comprised of more than 2,000 resources was maintained by Brown County United Way 2-1-1 resource specialists, in collaboration with the aging & disability resource center of brown county and the crisis center of family services of northeast wisconsin. 2025 accomplishments in partnership with the greater green bay labor council included the blanketing brown county driver and a diaper drive, which collected thousands of blankets, diapers, and baby items for distribution to brown county programs serving low-income individuals and families. Community information system: the community information system (cis) is a multidisciplinary data sharing system designed to improve decision support for policymakers, create effective interagency coordination and support the community. Brown County United Way and achieve brown county co-own the cis via a strategic partnership alliance.
$617,129 spent$3,054 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,060,196.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $6.0M to $6.9M (+15%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 4% · 2023 5% · 2024 43% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Robyn Davis
President/CEO
Board chair
Anjoli Rashid
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $329k → $680k.
9 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.2M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY raised.
From the IRS filings of BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 61% · 2019 46% · 2020 29% · 2021 24% · 2022 20% · 2023 19% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
93% of BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$450k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY?
- BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,742,298 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($886,483). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $3,742,298 in grants to BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $886,483 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing