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Alabama · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC (Alabama) is funded by 152 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $47,796,727 in grants to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ($10,858,136). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC is better cushioned than half of the 126 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 126 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
89% of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
$1.3M from 7 funders in 2025, up from $2.9M and 31 in 2017.
34 of 152 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 CENTRAL ALABAMA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 152 funders by total. Association, not causation.
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 26% · 2019 23% · 2020 20% · 2021 15% · 2022 20% · 2023 29% · 2024 19% · 2025 83% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
47% of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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.
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC is locally rooted: 55% of its grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 152 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $43.8M on record.
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.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
93% of spending goes to programs.
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
Every figure is 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 152funders 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. view filing