Alabama · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF ATHENS-LIMESTONE COUNTY
UNITED WAY OF ATHENS-LIMESTONE COUNTY (Alabama) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $374,167 to it, the largest being STEELCASE FOUNDATION ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $329k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $374k
- Net assets
- $181k
What United Way of Athens-Limestone County does
Mission
To strenghten and implement the spirit of human helpfulness in the city of athens and limestone county, alabama, to create a fund to be annually collected cooperativley by voluntary contributions, and to study the health, welfare, and human services of limestone county and by cooperative effort meet those needs through the development of a constructive program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization's main program service accomplishment is the collection of funds to meet the health and welfare needs of the city of athens and limestone county, alabama. The United Way of Athens-Limestone County offers local businesses and industries the opportunity to work with our area agencies for team building experiences. Each activity is customized to meet the objectives of the business, as well as provide help to our agencies and those they serve.
$244,537 spentof which $142,534 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $244,537.
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 2020 to 2021, from $244k to $192k (−21%).
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.
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
Kaye Mcfarlen
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $123k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF ATHENS-LIMESTONE COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 ATHENS-LIMESTONE COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 86% · 2021 69% · 2022 91% · 2023 52% — 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
50% of UNITED WAY OF ATHENS-LIMESTONE COUNTY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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 OF ATHENS-LIMESTONE COUNTY draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 ATHENS-LIMESTONE COUNTY
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
- Limestone Area Community Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF ATHENS-LIMESTONE COUNTY: 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 ATHENS-LIMESTONE COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF ATHENS-LIMESTONE COUNTY (Alabama) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $374,167 to it, the largest being STEELCASE FOUNDATION ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF ATHENS-LIMESTONE COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $374,167 in grants to UNITED WAY OF ATHENS-LIMESTONE COUNTY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF ATHENS-LIMESTONE COUNTY?
- STEELCASE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF ATHENS-LIMESTONE COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 10 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing