Texas · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN
UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN (Texas) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,239,003 to it, the largest being ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ($9,695,365). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 94
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $18M
What United Way for Greater Austin does
Mission
United Way for Greater Austin brings our community together to break economic barriers and build opportunity for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educationsuccess in life begins with a quality education. That's why united way ensures children get a strong start in life and are ready to succeed in kindergarten and beyond. Ninety percent of all brain development occurs in the first five years of a child's life. What happens in these early years has a lasting impact, from kindergarten readiness to third-grade reading scores to high school graduation and beyond.united way leads the success by 6 coalition, which brings together local nonprofits, policymakers, philanthropists, parents with lived experience, and community and business leaders to improve early childhood education in austin/travis county. The community coalition was launched in 2012. Since then, the success by 6 coalition has grown, strengthened, and continues to build upon its achievements. Progress toward the identified community goals, strategies, and performance targets in the success by 6 strategic plan are monitored throughout the year, and we publish data to share bright spots and identify ongoing challenges.community successes in the past year include: the passing of proposition a with the support of the coalition, which will increase county funding for…
$5,350,065 spentof which $1,027,500 as grants$262,106 earned by the program31% of program spendingHealthhere at united way, we know that anyone can fall on hard times. That's why, in partnership with the texas health and human services commission, we run 2-1-1, a phone number people can call to speak to a compassionate, certified specialist who will connect them to community resources. This helpline is free, confidential, multilingual, and available 24/7. 2-1-1 is for anyone who needs help and doesn't know where to turn. Navigation specialists help callers identify their needs and provide information about food, housing, transportation, health, child care, education, employment, benefits assistance, and more. And when disaster strikes, our 2-1-1 call specialists are there, providing immediate help. In 2024-2025, our navigation team answered more than 1,000 requests for help daily.in addition, our navigation center provides these community resources:45,000+ behavioral health requests answered affordable care act enrollment: provides public information about local resources and application assistance for the health insurance marketplace.ride united: in partnership with lyft and united way worldwide, provides free rides for those with transportation barriers.our addressing cancer…
$9,904,930 spentof which $162,500 as grants$608,217 earned by the program58% of program spendingFinancial stabilityfamilies and individuals are facing financial obstacles that prevent them from reaching their full potential. United way fights to ensure everyone in our community has the resources and opportunities they need to build a strong financial foundation and thrive. We work to put every person in our community on a path toward financial empowerment. That starts with access to services, job training, credit counseling, and more. One of the ways we are promoting financial stability in our community is through a 2-gen (or 2-generation) approach to social services. A 2-gen approach serves parents and children simultaneously and leads to better financial outcomes for both generations.in 2024-2025, the 2-gen coalition, spearheaded by united way, served more than 133,000 clients, nearly 16,000 families, and nearly 12,000 children with resources to support family stability.we wrapped up the parenting students project, a four-year program in partnership with austin community college. This program provided parents with supports they needed to accelerate their postsecondary graduation, like a monthly stipend, access to high-quality child care, academic counseling, and more. This…
$1,675,364 spentof which $930,000 as grants10% of program spendingOther amounts designated by contributors for specific organizations.
$62,375 spentof which $62,375 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,992,734.
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 2021 to 2022, from $13M to $21M (+64%).
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 29% · 2020 26% · 2021 50% · 2022 23% · 2023 30% · 2024 29% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Ingrid Taylor
CEO
Board chair
Kristin Marcum
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $398k → $6.1M.
20 of 94 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.5M from 18 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Austin Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 94 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 FOR GREATER AUSTIN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
62% 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 FOR GREATER AUSTIN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 39% · 2019 21% · 2020 33% · 2021 33% · 2022 32% · 2023 37% — 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
46% of UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
85% of UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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 FOR GREATER AUSTIN's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 34 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN: 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 FOR GREATER AUSTIN?
- UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN (Texas) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,239,003 to it, the largest being ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ($9,695,365). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN have?
- IRS filings report 94 organizations giving $33,239,003 in grants to UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN?
- ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,695,365 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN 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.
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 94 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