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CENTRAL COUNTY UNITED WAY

CENTRAL COUNTY UNITED WAY (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,046 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$195k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$45k
Net assets
$166k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Central County United Way does

Mission

Central County United Way connects people, resources and ideas to create a thriving community characterized by productive youth programs, senior services, healthy people and the community in which we live.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Retired and senior volunteer program provided volunteer opportunities for seniors age 55 plus. Placing volunteers at work sites, providing more than 70,000 service hours, providing meals to seniors.

    $161,381 spent
    87% of program spending
  2. Coordinated senior activities providing stipended volunteer service opportunities for low income seniors age 55 plus. The senior companion program volunteers assist homebound seniors. The foster grandparent program volunteers assist students in local grade schools.

    $24,310 spent
    13% of program spending
  3. Other program services

The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $185,691.

02The 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 ($544k) Expenses 100 ($546k) Net assets 100 ($577k)2018 Revenue 71 ($384k) Expenses 76 ($413k) Net assets 44 ($256k)2019 Revenue 78 ($427k) Expenses 76 ($415k) Net assets 47 ($268k)2020 Revenue 76 ($414k) Expenses 116 ($631k) Net assets 5 ($28k)2021 Revenue 49 ($267k) Expenses 71 ($386k) Net assets -12 ($-71987)2022 Revenue 55 ($302k) Expenses 40 ($217k) Net assets 30 ($172k)2023 Revenue 11 ($58k) Expenses 20 ($107k) Net assets 21 ($123k)2024 Revenue 36 ($195k) Expenses 28 ($152k) Net assets 29 ($166k)
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Revenue (36)Expenses (28)Net assets (29)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $40k to $424k (+954%).

$642k
$267k
$268k
$152k
$40k
$424k
$370k
$414k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 36% · 2019 31% · 2021 6% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of CENTRAL COUNTY UNITED WAY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
−$29k
’18
$12k
’19
−$216k
’20
−$119k
’21
$85k
’22
−$49k
’23
$44k
’24
3.6
months of
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

Phillip Burch

CEO

Board chair

Sharyl Adams-Williams

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

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Listed105666666
Joined·+4+4+0+0+3+0+0
No longer listed·9300300
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $22.

Funder
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total
Scan Health Planunclassified
$5k
funders
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2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CENTRAL COUNTY UNITED WAY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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

CENTRAL COUNTY UNITED WAY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 CENTRAL COUNTY UNITED WAY.

89%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 89% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

Where its funders are

89% of CENTRAL COUNTY UNITED WAY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CENTRAL COUNTY UNITED WAY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · above the median
Months of reserve3.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−14% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding CENTRAL COUNTY UNITED WAY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.

Federal$1.2M
grants $1.2Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$1.2M

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 CENTRAL 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CENTRAL COUNTY UNITED WAY?
CENTRAL COUNTY UNITED WAY (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,046 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CENTRAL COUNTY UNITED WAY have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $45,046 in grants to CENTRAL COUNTY UNITED WAY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL COUNTY UNITED WAY?
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTRAL COUNTY UNITED WAY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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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 4 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing