Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM
UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,094,259 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($11,288,917). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What United Philanthropy Forum does
Mission
As the largest and most diverse network in american philanthropy, United Philanthropy Forum holds a unique position in the social sector to help increase philanthropy's impact in communities across the country. We help people who do good to do good better. The forum is a membership network of more than 90 regional and national philanthropy-serving organizations (psos), representing more than 7,000 foundations funders, who work to make philanthropy better. The forum envisions a courageous philanthropic sector that catalyzes a just and equitable society where all can participate and prosper.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Knowledge services:many of the forum's regional and national pso members participate in the forum's unique, state-of-the-art shared technology platform, known as the knowledge management (km) collaborative, which offers members an integrated constituent relationship management (crm) solution and a sophisticated website content management system (cms). Forum members are able to use this platform for a fraction of what it would have cost them to develop a similar platform on their own. They receive ongoing support from the forum team and are part of an active user community of peers.
$1,297,688 spent$976,279 earned by the program34% of program spendingProgram, communications & services:the forum provides a wide range of programs, communications and other services to build the capacity of our members to advance, mobilize, convene, inform and support philanthropy. This includes an annual conference and other education programs throughout the year; a wide range of peer community networking opportunities for pso staff with many different job functions and levels of experience; data and knowledge to inform the work of regional and national philanthropy infrastructure organizations, including an annual compensation & benefits survey; ongoing technical assistance; public policy and advocacy work to build the capacity of our members to engage in public policy; ongoing communications that both inform and lift up the work of our members, through a regular newsletter, social media, active listservs and other means; and numerous other capacity-building efforts.
$2,536,745 spentof which $258,152 as grants$339,920 earned by the program66% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,834,433.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $4.0M to $2.0M (−50%).
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: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Deborah Aubert Thomas
President & CEO
Board chair
Kyle Caldwell
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $416k → $831k.
4 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 PHILANTHROPY FORUM’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
UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 73% · 2019 23% · 2020 91% · 2021 78% · 2022 69% · 2023 30% — 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 UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 PHILANTHROPY FORUM's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM: 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 UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM?
- UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,094,259 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($11,288,917). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $22,094,259 in grants to UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,288,917 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 28 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