Texas · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC
UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC (Texas) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,618,830 to it, the largest being DIAN GRAVES OWEN FOUNDATION ($1,534,359). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What United Way of Abilene Inc does
Mission
United way of abilene promotes the health, education, and financial stability of every person in west central texas by leveraging the intellectual, organizational, institutional, financial, faith-based, and personal resources of its local communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
$1,524,666 in grant allocations were committed to 26 non-profit organizations in our service area. These non-profit organizations represent partner agencies and initiatives that support priority issues determined by committees of local volunteers representing the citizens of west central texas. These priority issues are designed to ensure that basic needs are met, youth graduate from high school ready to work or pursue higher education, seniors live independently, families are self-sufficient, and neighborhoods are safe and family friendly.
$1,539,806 spentof which $1,524,666 as grants$472,753 earned by the program64% of program spendingCommunity impact programs provide the 19 counties of west central texas with information and referral services and emergency assistance for basic needs, such as shelter and utilities. These programs paid $185,617 in direct benefits for emergency assistance and managed thousands of calls for information and referral services.
$863,117 spentof which $185,617 as grants36% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,402,923.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $3.1M to $3.7M (+19%).
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 20% · 2018 23% · 2019 26% · 2020 17% · 2021 37% · 2022 16% · 2023 22% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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 Cathy Ashby
President & CEO
Board chair
Leigh Black
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $150k → $1.4M.
13 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $1.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Abilene). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 OF ABILENE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 44% · 2019 37% · 2020 46% · 2021 32% · 2022 31% · 2023 34% — 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
46% of UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
95% of UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $338k 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.
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF ABILENE 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- United Way Foundation of Abilene · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF ABILENE 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 OF ABILENE INC?
- UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC (Texas) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,618,830 to it, the largest being DIAN GRAVES OWEN FOUNDATION ($1,534,359). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $4,618,830 in grants to UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC?
- DIAN GRAVES OWEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,534,359 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 38 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