California · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY INC
UNITED WAY INC (California) receives grants from 247 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,260,182 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($51,089,304). 119 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50M
- Funders on record
- 247
- Grants received
- $182M
- Net assets
- $81M
What United Way Inc does
Mission
We can accomplish more together than alone. By combining community power, donations and new solutions to long standing challenges we can support neighbors on a pathway from poverty to prosperity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Supporting people in crisis tapping into our collective ability to help, we multiply contributions and hard work into immediate relief for neighbors who need food, housing, healthcare, and financial assistance.we are investing to sustain and expand assistance to individuals and families experiencing the daily crisis of poverty. We have:- supported 17,969 households received utilities assistance & 281,574 meals were served by 168 organizations under emergency food and shelter program (efsp) this past year. The last contracted period of efsp will end dec 2025. With federal changes there is currently no clear plan for the continuation of efsp. (cont. On sch. O)- coordinated investments in site improvements and operational enhancements at places that support households who are unhoused ant at-risk of homelessness. In the last year, 34 daytime sites and 7 senior centers were funded shelters, and an additional set of 8 targeted sites for larger investment, were provided funding for site improvements and operational enhancements in order to better serve 84k+ people experiencing and at-risk of homelessness. - launched in response to the wildfires to raise funds for deployment. To date…
$29,540,681 spentof which $14,878,624 as grants$1,634,837 earned by the program74% of program spendingBuilding shared prosperityevery neighborhood in l.a. Is full of dreamers and doers who have a vision for what their community could be. That's why we work with local partners to create community-owned approaches to building wealth and power that will change the future for this generation and the next.we are investing for shared prosperity efforts that create pathways of opportunity and equity across our region. We have:- the affordable housing initiative has invested in 374 affordable units financed at 50% of the average cost this last year and continues to scale that program through lacahsa, the housing solutions agency we helped create. It has the potential to create an (cont. On sch. O) impactful supply of affordable housing and prevent homelessness across our region.- the community prosperity initiative aims to engage local community members in building an economy that works for them. Over the year, over community project design work was completed across of north long beach, asset mapping in final stages in city of san fernando, and willowbrook, adding to the efforts in pico union. A prosperity fund was launched which invested in 12 projects. Early round projects have already…
$6,795,078 spentof which $3,422,447 as grants17% of program spendingUnited way of greater los angeles enables donors to designate their gifts to other united way or to other nonprofit organizations. In fiscal year 2024-2025, we processed $3,402,083 in designations.
$3,402,083 spentof which $3,402,083 as grants$51,062 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,737,842.
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 2023 to 2024, from $93M to $188M (+102%).
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 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 3% · 2020 5% · 2021 4% · 2022 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 8% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of UNITED WAY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Elise Buik
President & CEO
Board chair
Martha Santana-Chin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 76 funders to 55 funders, grant income fell $16M → $9.1M.
26 of 247 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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: $15M from 35 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cedars-Sinai Medical Center). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 247 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 INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
49% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 26% · 2019 57% · 2020 33% · 2021 40% · 2022 53% · 2023 56% — 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
34% of UNITED WAY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
90% of UNITED WAY INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 490 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 2 related entities
- Ahi Fund II LLC · disregarded
- Ahi Fund III LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC?
- UNITED WAY INC (California) receives grants from 247 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,260,182 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($51,089,304). 119 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY INC have?
- IRS filings report 247 organizations giving $182,260,182 in grants to UNITED WAY INC, 119 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY INC?
- CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $51,089,304 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY INC 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 247 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