Indiana · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC
UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,170,002 to it, the largest being INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC ($5,180,011). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What United Way of Allen County Inc does
Mission
To boldly impact critical community issues with a vision of effectively transforming our community through measurable impact.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Priority area grant funds: united way of allen county provides funding to 19 organizations that provide services that help achieve community goals around food security, housing stability, and mental health access. Additionally, united way invests in various community collaborations (kindergarten countdown, vita, persistence pays off, etc., early years initiative) throughout allen county.
$1,413,446 spentof which $785,000 as grants65% of program spendingVolunteer income tax assistance (vita): during the 2025 vita season, tax preparation was offered at one site in allen county and six sites in dekalb, noble and steuben counties. This year, 25 volunteers donated over 1,900 hours to this effort. Over 2.9 million were returned to over 2,900 residents.
$100,458 spent5% of program spendingKindergarten countdown: kindergarten countdown completed its eleventh year where 115 children attended classes in the schools they will be attending in the fall. The program operates in two public school districts and emphasizes classroom skills like raising hands and lining up quietly as well as strengthening the literacy skills that are necessary to learn to read. This year's students showed a 17 percent increase in basic literacy skills and a 18 percent increase in social emotional scores from the assessments completed at the beginning and end of the four-week program. There was a 38 percent increase in the number students able to write their names.
$70,762 spent3% of program spendingCommunity collaborations: united way of allen county invests in numerous collaborative efforts that convene multiple partners to address critical community issues through our priority areas of educational opportunities, food security, housing stability, and mental health access using community-based solutions. --donor designations: united way of allen county (uwac) directs designated contributions (50 or more) to a specific uwac priority area(s), initiative(s), or to local united ways in other communities. Uwac retains 15% of designated gifts to united ways/funds that are part of the northeast indiana consortium and 15.1% on gifts to other united ways. No other fees or percentages are charged against these gifts. --volunteer engagement and day of caring: our total volunteer engagement coordinated over 1,700 volunteers for over 9,700 hours of community service which equals over 340,600 worth of service invested back in to allen county. We work with corporate partners to connect their employees to volunteer opportunities in the community. We coordinate kit builds for them to complete or companies participate in our largest volunteer event, day of caring. Our 32nd annual united way…
$599,390 spentof which $21,851 as grants27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,184,056.
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 2019 to 2020, from $6.3M to $7.7M (+22%).
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% · 2021 7% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% 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.
Board chair
Heidi Fowler
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $111k → $2.0M.
9 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $1.4M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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 ALLEN COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% 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 OF ALLEN COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 33% · 2019 45% · 2020 78% · 2021 71% · 2022 48% · 2023 28% — 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
42% of UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
78% of UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 OF ALLEN COUNTY INC's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $437k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$437k
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 OF ALLEN COUNTY 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY 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 ALLEN COUNTY INC?
- UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,170,002 to it, the largest being INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC ($5,180,011). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $10,170,002 in grants to UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC?
- INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,180,011 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 51 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