Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION
UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,752,367 to it, the largest being LOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND ($1,515,937). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What United Planning Organization does
Mission
United Planning Organization's mission is uniting people with opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community services - by partnering with other community based organizations, local businesses, government agencies and volunteers in 2023, upo planned and implemented selfsufficiency interventions that served a total of 52,852 low-income residents (men, women and children) in all four quadrants and eight wards of washington, dc. As we continue to work post covid19, upo remains resolved to helping dc residents maintain or achieve ecomonic security. Upo consistently reaches out within communities in the district of columbia that experience high levels of poverty and economic insecurity. Services are provided at: ---five (5) upo community service centers---eighteen directly operated head start sites---two partner funded sites, and ---through contractual relationships with eight community based organizations (cbos) working as csbg service providers. Direct services provided by upo include employment assistance; early education; youth social and emotional development; youth academic enrichment; adult education; vocational skills training and certification; housing support and assistance; budget and income management counseling; financial literacy training; emergency support services;…
$15,235,887 spent37% of program spendingHead start and early head start - United Planning Organization's (upo) head start program was initiated in 1964 and was one of the first pilot programs in the united states. In 2012, the upo office of early learning (upo-oel) was awarded a birth-to-five grant that provides seamless services for 1,200 children ages 6 weeks to 3 years old including expecting families. Upo-oel directly operates 17 early learning centers and partners with five (5) nonprofit childcare agencies that have contracts. Upo is the largest provider of early head start (ehs) services in washington, dc. Upo-oel is also a hub for the office of the state superintendent (0sse) quality improvement network (qin) early head start childcare partnership initiative. The qin-hub initiative provides training and technical assistance to 12 early learning and 14 family early learning partners in dc to support them in implementing high quality services for 466 funded children. The qin-hub is a qualitity improvement network initiative. Head start and early head start are educational programs that provide comprehensive services for children and families.
$22,473,031 spentof which $719,715 as grants55% of program spendingHomeless - upo actively stands on the frontlines of homelessness care and prevention. The agency currently operates a fleet of shelter transport vehicles that are specifically equipped to provide direct, managed support to unhoused individuals. This fleet is an integral part of the city's continuum of care for the homeless.
$3,131,752 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $40,840,670.
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 2024 to 2025, from $15M to $11M (−30%).
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 96% · 2018 94% · 2019 92% · 2020 90% · 2021 90% · 2022 84% · 2023 95% · 2024 97% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Andrea D Thomas
President & CEO
Board chair
Lafayette Barnes
(chair)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $48k → $1.6M.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 PLANNING ORGANIZATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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 PLANNING ORGANIZATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 PLANNING ORGANIZATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 29% · 2019 38% · 2020 22% · 2021 46% · 2022 35% · 2023 91% — 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
55% of UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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 PLANNING ORGANIZATION draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $336k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 PLANNING ORGANIZATION's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $119.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$110.2M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$8.2M
- Department of Justice$997k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$249k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$169k
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 UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Upo Inspire Foundation · exempt
- Upo Community Development Corp · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION: 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 PLANNING ORGANIZATION?
- UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,752,367 to it, the largest being LOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND ($1,515,937). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,752,367 in grants to UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION?
- LOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,515,937 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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