Alabama · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 188 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,646,016 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($5,374,200). 127 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $128M
- Funders on record
- 188
- Grants received
- $41M
- Net assets
- $112M
What United Way of Central Alabama Inc does
Mission
Uwca's mission is to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another and to improve their community. We are engaged in blount, chilton, jefferson, shelby, st. Clair and walker counties to create community-based solutions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Health - uwca provides programs and services to address hunger, community health and well-being, mental health and youth health and wellness throughout central alabama. This includes: 322,907 clients who received health, medical or nutrition-related services; 10,983 people with disabilities who were provided with services designed to improve quality of life; 210,784 clients who received services for physical and/or mental health; 35,957 individuals who received mental health services such as crisis counseling and intervention; 26,573,265 meals distributed to individuals and families to fight hunger; 72,654 youth who participated in social-emotional learning programs; 7,151 clients who received access to quality care for individuals affected by hiv; 30,231 clients who received comprehensive senior services; and 1,430 clients who were provided pandemic response services.
$86,508,732 spentof which $65,671,760 as grants$11,150,232 earned by the program73% of program spendingAccess to services - uwca provides a network of care through more than 200 partners and programs in 1,200 service locations throughout alabama. Uwca supports a statewide information and referral network called 211 connects alabama, which is an innovative person-to-person communications system connecting alabamians to available resources in their communities and providing referrals for all basic needs such as food, shelter, clothing, financial assistance and childcare. In 2024, 211 connected 137,253 callers to vital resources. United way's area agency on aging for jefferson county received 15,323 calls to its aging & disability resource center at 1-800-age-line, a dedicated phone line, staffed by on-site call specialists who provide information on, and referrals to, a wide variety of services designed for seniors and people with disabilities.
$17,775,767 spentof which $4,620,416 as grants$945,974 earned by the program15% of program spendingEducation - uwca promotes youth health and wellness across the education continuum, from quality childcare to dropout prevention. We provide youth support and after-school programs, including tutoring, stem programs, life skills development, mentoring and more. Our success by six initiative, part of our early childhood development and education focus, enhances children's school readiness by training pre-k educators and providing high-quality early-learning curricula, classroom materials, equipment and evaluation. In 2024, the program served 2,391 students. Additionally, our help me grow central alabama program served 344 families, including 425 children, connecting them with community-based developmental and behavioral resources to ensure children start school healthy and ready to succeed.
$14,220,613 spentof which $1,497,460 as grants12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $118,505,112.
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 $106M to $119M (+12%).
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 39% · 2018 41% · 2019 45% · 2020 48% · 2021 49% · 2022 53% · 2023 51% · 2024 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC’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. 0 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
John A Langloh
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 59 funders to 83 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $6.0M.
29 of 188 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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: $16M from 22 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham); $429k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way of Central Alabama Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 188 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 CENTRAL ALABAMA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
56% 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 CENTRAL ALABAMA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 25% · 2019 19% · 2020 13% · 2021 14% · 2022 16% · 2023 12% — 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
54% of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
71% of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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 CENTRAL ALABAMA INC's funding base is broadening — from 59 funders to 83 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 153 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $43.8M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$38.7M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.7M
- Department of Education$835k
- Department of the Treasury$559k
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 CENTRAL ALABAMA 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 Alabama
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
90%
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 4 related entities
- Community Partnership of Alabama Inc · exempt
- Priority Veteran Inc · exempt
- Hands on Birmingham Inc · exempt
- Meals on Wheels of Central Alabama · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA 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 CENTRAL ALABAMA INC?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 188 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,646,016 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($5,374,200). 127 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC have?
- IRS filings report 188 organizations giving $40,646,016 in grants to UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC, 127 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,374,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 188 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