Connecticut · Nonprofit
THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC
THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,151,062 to it, the largest being Webster Bank Charitable Foundation ($932,157). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $8.2M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc does
Mission
The united way works collaboratively with and strategically invests in community partners to help solve community problems. The united way provides leadership, convenes and facilities community conversations and initiatives on priority issues. The united way provides staff leadership and serves as fiduciary for several partnerships including the greater waterbury campership program which enables children from low-income families to attend summer camp and bridge to success, a cradle to career initiative. The united way also takes a lead role in food insecurity initiatives such as holiday assistance program and stock the pantry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The united way works collaboratively with and strategically invests in community partners to help solve community problems. The united way provides leadership, convenes and facilities community conversations and initiatives on priority issues. The united way provides staff leadership and serves as fiduciary for several partnerships including the greater waterbury campership program which enables children from low-income families to attend summer camp and bridge to success, a cradle to career initiative. The united way also takes a lead role in food insecurity initiatives such as holiday assistance program and stock the pantry.
$1,892,853 spentof which $1,011,257 as grants$91,000 earned by the program53% of program spendingAllocations and funded agency relations - the united way allocates/invests funds in local health and human service programs and initiatives that help people in need. Through the outcome measurement initiative the united way assists its funded programs in developing and implementing a system to measure the impact of their services on their clients. Using the outcome measurement data, the united way communicates the value of these services more effectively, while providing individual programs with a tool to improve their committee which works to address include dozens of local non-profit agencies and collaboratives such as the food resource committee which works to address local hunger issues, bridge to success whose focus is on positive youth development, and the continuum of care/can who are working to end chronic homelessness.
$1,662,751 spentof which $1,662,751 as grants$102,978 earned by the program47% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,555,604.
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 $4.5M to $8.5M (+88%).
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: 2023 70% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Board chair
Adrienne Parkmond
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $464k → $1.7M.
10 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
50% 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 THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 23% · 2019 18% · 2020 19% · 2021 22% · 2022 24% · 2023 28% — 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
60% of THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
54% of THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record — $1.0M federal, $60k state.
- Department of Education$1.0M
- Management Consultant Services$60k
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 THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC
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In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC?
- THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,151,062 to it, the largest being Webster Bank Charitable Foundation ($932,157). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $8,151,062 in grants to THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC?
- Webster Bank Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $932,157 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 55 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