Texas · Nonprofit
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC (Texas) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,698,686 to it, the largest being RAINWATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,273,334). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What United Community Centers Inc does
Mission
Guided by Christian principles, we serve and empower those in need. Since 1909, UCC has carried out this mission through programs that educate, empower, and strengthen families at our three neighborhood centers in Fort Worth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ucc's education literacy program (elp) is provided after school and all day in summer to low-income students in inner-city fort worth. In this program, ucc provides three critical literacy programs year-round: a foundational program for emerging readers in pre-k and k, called success by six, an intervention program to advance the reading levels of high-risk primary grade students significantly below grade level called ready readers and our core educational literacy program (elp), a balanced literacy program supplementing fort worth independent school district (fwisd) instruction. Our at-risk children attend low-performing schools in fwisd. All literacy programs help our students become more proficient readers. Our summer reading programs not only prevent the "summer slide" but help many children in the program return to school on a higher reading level. In the fiscal year ending march 31, 2025, ucc delivered literacy instruction to 555 students and served over 128,115 meals and snacks through its elp program.
$1,972,206 spentof which $175 as grants$280,243 earned by the program75% of program spendingTHE CLIENT ASSISTANCE AND ADVOCACY PROGRAM PROVIDES EMERGENCY FOOD AND CLOTHING, GED PREPARATION, COMPUTER SKILLS TRAINING, ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSES, ASSISTANCE TO SENIORS, INFORMATION, AND REFERRALS. UCC COLLABORATES WITH THE TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK TO HOST A MONTHLY MOBILE FOOD PANTRY AT THE WESLEY CENTER. UCC distributed on average 15,830 pounds of food monthly to about 225 families through mobile pantry. During the holiday season, UCC distributed 600 Thanksgiving meals to clients. Throughout the 2025 fiscal year, UCC has provided emergency assistance to 29,291 people and dispensed approximately 201,000 pounds of food at three centers. 90% of the clients served through UCC have an annual family income under $32,000.
$669,080 spentof which $440,108 as grants25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,641,286.
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 2017 to 2018, from $6.4M to $7.4M (+17%).
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 21% · 2018 26% · 2019 28% · 2020 20% · 2021 25% · 2022 35% · 2023 43% · 2024 16% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Chief executive
Celia Esparza
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $118k → $1.1M.
8 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC 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
30% 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 UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 32% · 2019 35% · 2020 33% · 2021 34% · 2022 34% · 2023 31% — 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
52% of UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
91% of UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $450k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- United Community Center Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC?
- UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC (Texas) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,698,686 to it, the largest being RAINWATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,273,334). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $6,698,686 in grants to UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC?
- RAINWATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,273,334 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds United Community Centers →
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 44 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