Florida · Nonprofit
HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC
HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC (Florida) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,973,580 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,010,000). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 97
- Grants received
- $40M
- Net assets
- $45M
What Heart of Florida United Way Inc does
Mission
The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. This is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Founded in 1939, heart of florida united way (united way) is central florida's largest supporter of local health and human service agencies. In 2024-2025, $21 million dollars were invested into central florida, including over $6.7 million dollars raised during the annual campaign that helps fund local health and human service programs. With these investments, united way touched the lives of 870,113 individuals through community partnerships, as well as through direct services designed to create a thriving community where adults and children achieve their full potential with access to a solid education, good health, safe neighborhoods and jobs that pay a living wage.
$9,139,282 spentof which $3,874,354 as grants$2,500,270 earned by the program54% of program spendingIn fy 2024-2025, heart of florida united way 211 and crisis services contact center managed grants and fee-for-service contracts, totaling $4.4 million, to provide 24/7 information, referral, and crisis support services via phone, chat, text, email and online database access in the tri-county area of orange, osceola and seminole, florida. Hfuw 211 is also contracted to provide services in 17 additional counties in florida, as well as serving as the national disaster distress helpline text center and regional 988 suicide & crisis lifeline. Hfuw 211 and crisis services answered over 242,000 contacts in fy 2025.
$5,169,170 spent30% of program spendingHeart of florida united way serves as the lead agency for ryan white part b/general revenue, a florida department of health-funded program that provides care and support to people living with hiv in orange, osceola, seminole and brevard counties. Additionally, heart of florida united way receives federal funding from orange county government to provide technical assistance for the central florida hiv planning council, a community planning group that makes recommendations to the recipient offices on ryan white part funds, through the management of the planning council support program. The planning council provides prevention and care planning for orange, osceola, seminole, lake and brevard counties.
$2,652,962 spentof which $2,274,799 as grants16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,961,414.
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 2020 to 2021, from $35M to $58M (+66%).
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 18% · 2018 21% · 2019 22% · 2020 25% · 2021 20% · 2022 34% · 2023 30% · 2024 50% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $934k → $3.6M.
18 of 97 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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: $10M from 31 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way Suncoast Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 97 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
HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 42% · 2019 18% · 2020 19% · 2021 87% · 2022 19% · 2023 44% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
62% of HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC'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 $15M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC is better cushioned than half of the 490 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.2M on record — $2.0M federal, $3.2M state.
- Department of Justice$1.4M
- Department of the Treasury$509k
- Corporation for National and Community Service$29k
- FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $3.2M
- CONTRACTED SERVICES - OTHER $20k
- INTEREST - LATE PAYMENT OF INVOICES $3k
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 HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC: 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 HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC?
- HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC (Florida) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,973,580 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,010,000). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC have?
- IRS filings report 97 organizations giving $39,973,580 in grants to HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $20,010,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 97 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