Illinois · Nonprofit
FOX VALLEY UNITED WAY
FOX VALLEY UNITED WAY (Illinois) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,118,589 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($400,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $976k
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $831k
What Fox Valley United Way does
Mission
To improve lives in the communities served through fundraising and by providing leadership in fostering collaberation and leveraging resources to focus on solving the identified community problems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fox Valley United Way invests in programs that support school readiness, healthy families, and positive financial outcomes for 23 communities inside of kane and kendall counties. They recruit donors, volunteers, and advocates who wish to assist their neighbors in need and contribute to positive growth. Through impactful community initiatives such as kane and kendall 2-1-1, dolly parton's imagination library, and holiday assistance, donations go toward supporting a social services hotline, providing free monthly books to children aged zero to five, and supporting families in need during the season of giving. Additional funds are allocated to partner agencies who provide essential human needs directly to community members in search of assistance.
$311,969 spentof which $68,048 as grants47% of program spendingSpark early childhood collaboration is a partnership with area school districts and local social service agencies aiming to ensure that all children receive quality preparedness education prior to their first day of school. Parents are given access to local resources and opportunities to help them lay the foundation for their child's future success in school and beyond. A total of 3,468 children were engaged in services throughout the year at events or individual meetings.
$351,903 spent53% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $663,872.
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.
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 $1.0M to $915k (−11%).
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 3% · 2018 4% · 2019 9% · 2020 4% · 2021 11% · 2022 4% · 2023 12% · 2024 14% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Board chair
Mark Mooney
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $160k → $309k.
9 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 FOX VALLEY 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
FOX VALLEY UNITED WAY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
73% 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 FOX VALLEY UNITED WAY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 37% · 2019 58% · 2020 62% · 2021 29% · 2022 36% · 2023 37% — 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
42% of FOX VALLEY UNITED WAY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
55% of FOX VALLEY 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 $947k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Illinois 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 6 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.
Organizations like FOX VALLEY 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 FOX VALLEY 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 FOX VALLEY UNITED WAY?
- FOX VALLEY UNITED WAY (Illinois) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,118,589 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($400,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOX VALLEY UNITED WAY have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $2,118,589 in grants to FOX VALLEY UNITED WAY, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOX VALLEY UNITED WAY?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOX VALLEY UNITED WAY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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