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FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO

FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,342,630 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,010,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$8.8M
Funders on record
67
Grants received
$21M
Net assets
$10.0M
29/67 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Fondos Unidos de Puerto Rico Inc & United Way Puerto Rico does

Mission

The purpose of the organization is to raise funds in annual campaigns to cover program services of its participating agencies.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Funds distributons and allocation services - payment to participating agencies. Grants consist of allocation of funds collected through the annual campaign in public and private sector to more than one thousand welfare and health agencies of which 114 are affiliated to the agency which benefit more than 800k people in puerto rico.

    $1,814,868 spentof which $1,814,868 as grants$3,235,592 earned by the program
    25% of program spending
  2. Information and referral - 211 phone number connect callers to information about critical health and human services available in puerto rico. This service provides callers with information and referral to human services for everyday needs and in time of crisis. 211 can offer access to basic human need resources physical and mental health resources and any other service.

    $136,000 spent
    2% of program spending
  3. Volunteers center - match you with volunteer opportunites that fit the interest skills availability and location with the needs of the non-profit organization. Also promote the volunteer help among the corporations that support the annual fundraising campaign and has a program called "club me importas tu" that develops leadership skills for high school and university sudents.

    $90,789 spent
    1% of program spending
  4. Allocation Services

    $296,663 spent
    4% of program spending
  5. Sembrando futuro

    $186,155 spent
    3% of program spending
  6. Special project Department of Health

    $1,319,650 spent
    18% of program spending
  7. Special Project ACUDEN

    $2,743,022 spent
    37% of program spending
  8. Other programs

    $733,120 spent
    10% of program spending

The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,320,267.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($6.8M) Expenses 100 ($8.8M) Net assets 100 ($8.5M)2020 Revenue 277 ($19M) Expenses 107 ($9.4M) Net assets 210 ($18M)2021 Revenue 377 ($25M) Expenses 307 ($27M) Net assets 193 ($16M)2022 Revenue 92 ($6.2M) Expenses 134 ($12M) Net assets 127 ($11M)2023 Revenue 98 ($6.7M) Expenses 88 ($7.7M) Net assets 115 ($9.8M)2024 Revenue 131 ($8.8M) Expenses 98 ($8.6M) Net assets 117 ($10.0M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (131)Expenses (98)Net assets (117)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 2019 to 2020, from $10.0M to $20M (+97%).

$10.0M
$20M
$18M
$12M
$15M
$13M
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 13% · 2020 6% · 2021 82% · 2022 31% · 2023 24% · 2024 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,053 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2.0M
’19
$9.4M
’20
−$1.5M
’21
−$5.6M
’22
−$1.1M
’23
$189k
’24
8.4
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.

201920202021202220232024
Listed464147414142
Joined·+7+15+9+0+2
No longer listed·1291501
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 20 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $908k.

18 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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: $2k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Fondos Unidos de Puerto Rico Inc & United Way Puerto Rico). These are real filings, and they are not money FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO raised.

From the IRS filings of FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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

FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

94% 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 FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO.

47%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 36% · 2019 36% · 2020 28% · 2021 92% · 2022 30% · 2023 27% — 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

23% of FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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

90% of FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO'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 $2.0M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Puerto Rico, across 18 states.

IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
DE
AZ
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Puerto Rico out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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

FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO is better cushioned than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve8.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

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

Government funding FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $504k on record.

Federal$504k
grants $504kcontracts $0
22
23
Top agencies
  • Department of the Treasury$254k
  • Department of Agriculture$250k

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 FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO

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 Puerto Rico

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 7%Fundraising 8%

Governance

38
board members
97%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

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Questions and answers

Who funds FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO?
FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,342,630 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,010,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO have?
IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $21,342,630 in grants to FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $10,010,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Puerto Rico. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 67 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