North Carolina · Nonprofit
UCA Waves
UCA Waves (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,500 to it, the largest being JULIAN GRACE FOUNDATION ($28,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $340k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $39k
- Net assets
- $97k
What UCA Waves does
Mission
Raise awareness of the mental health challenges that young Asian Americans face due to familial, cultural, and societal factors Develop community support and resources to improve youth mental health Promote cultural sensitivity in psychological well-being and interventions Encourage civic engagement in public policies to address mental health issues
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
1. UCA WAVES, in partnership with MHACC, has been conducting Mental Health First Aid Training sessions to educate the community about mental health and boost their ability to prevent or handle crises, allowing them to become mental health guardians for themselves and their loved ones. 2. In June 2024, UCA waves held US-Chinese convention in D.C. More than 700 people from all over the United States gathered at the Omni Hotel to participate in the event. 3. UCA Waves made documentary film, peer support, and parent education toolkits.
$230,004 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $230,004.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 UCA Waves’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
UCA Waves leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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
26% 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 UCA Waves.
“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
UCA Waves draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
UCA Waves runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like UCA Waves
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 UCA Waves: 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 UCA Waves?
- UCA Waves (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,500 to it, the largest being JULIAN GRACE FOUNDATION ($28,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UCA Waves have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $38,500 in grants to UCA Waves.
- Who is the largest funder of UCA Waves?
- JULIAN GRACE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $28,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UCA Waves find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 2 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