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BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY

BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,384,724 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($886,483). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.6M
Revenue FY2024
38
Funders on record
$3.4M
Grants received
$6.1M
Net assets
31/38 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%

Against its field

BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve3.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.1M) Expenses 100 ($4.4M) Net assets 100 ($3.9M)2018 Revenue 90 ($3.6M) Expenses 86 ($3.8M) Net assets 93 ($3.7M)2019 Revenue 86 ($3.5M) Expenses 77 ($3.4M) Net assets 100 ($3.9M)2020 Revenue 87 ($3.5M) Expenses 67 ($2.9M) Net assets 118 ($4.6M)2021 Revenue 86 ($3.5M) Expenses 65 ($2.8M) Net assets 135 ($5.3M)2022 Revenue 74 ($3.0M) Expenses 61 ($2.7M) Net assets 133 ($5.2M)2023 Revenue 79 ($3.2M) Expenses 73 ($3.2M) Net assets 137 ($5.4M)2024 Revenue 113 ($4.6M) Expenses 88 ($3.9M) Net assets 156 ($6.1M)
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Revenue (113)Expenses (88)Net assets (156)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
2019
2020
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 4% · 2023 5% · 2024 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,048 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$328k
17
$117k
18
$87k
19
$605k
20
$648k
21
$299k
22
$32k
23
$692k
24
3.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $329k → $680k.

9 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)36% 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 38 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 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

75% 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.

26%
largest funder
54%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 61% · 2019 22% · 2020 29% · 2021 24% · 2022 20% · 2023 15%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

52% of BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

92% of BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

MN
WI
MI
NY
PA
DE
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 38 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

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.

Federal$1.4M
grants $1.4Mcontracts $0
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24
Top agencies
  • 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

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Wisconsin

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 12%Fundraising 14%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

WI

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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY?
BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,384,724 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($886,483). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY have?
IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $3,384,724 in grants to BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY, 31 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 38funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing