California · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION
UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION (California) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,940,370 to it, the largest being SIEMER INSTITUTE ($1,010,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $23M
What United Way California Capital Region does
Mission
The United Way California Capital Region was organized to raise funds for the financing of a variety of charitable, not-for-profit health and welfare organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Allocation of cash and other contributions to certified agencies for their use, operation and maintenance in performing charitable, health and welfare work and/for the operation and maintenance of these agencies.
$8,419,354 spentof which $8,419,354 as grants69% of program spendingProgram service related expenses in the areas of education, financial stability, and health.
$3,735,442 spent$297,589 earned by the program31% of program spendingEducation- completed the federal community schools grant report and submitted it along with the current year's budget. - reworking literacy tutoring to consider broader academic supports like stem through strategic partnerships to consider funding for out of school time partnerships.- united way kids read - two confirmed schools in west sacramento.- kinder camp - woodland. June 12th to july 11thwest sacramento tbdsacramento - school siteeconomic impact- free tax prep numbers: 5,588 returnstotal households have received refunds: $6,652,861caleitc recipients- 1,946caleitc amount claimed- $481,899 guaranteed income-355 program participants received gi payments- $613,984 in payments distributedhousing- updating contracts for keep people housed - solano to add additional application support- updating policies to address css needs, including our petty cash, grievance process, in-office time, and communications policy.- working on grants for programming expansions- hired an lcsw
Uwccr in our mission to end poverty has moved to leverage our expertise as service providers and community conveners to provide data to effect change through public policy recommendations on the local, state, and federal levels. Uwccr has provided data backed policy solutions in the areas of economic justice, workforce innovation, tax policy, community health and childhood academic success through providing local recommendations for funding children and youth services, expert testimony during state legislative hearings, and providing data briefs to our federal congressional delegation.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,154,796.
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 $27M (+85%).
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 9% · 2018 8% · 2019 6% · 2020 4% · 2021 7% · 2022 2% · 2023 15% · 2024 17% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Dr Dawnte Early
President/CEO and secretar
Board chair
Joaquin Razo
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $568k → $767k.
12 of 59 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $16M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way California Capital Region); $14M from 11 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Chicago Community Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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 WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
81% 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 WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 33% · 2019 32% · 2020 42% · 2021 20% · 2022 22% · 2023 24% — 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
38% of UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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 WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 490 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- Department of the Treasury$1.7M
- Department of Education$969k
- Corporation for National and Community Service$344k
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 WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sacramento Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION: 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 WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION?
- UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION (California) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,940,370 to it, the largest being SIEMER INSTITUTE ($1,010,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $5,940,370 in grants to UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION?
- SIEMER INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $1,010,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 59 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