Virginia · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,949,622 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION ($4,448,334). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What United Way of Central Virginia Inc does
Mission
United way of central virginia enhances the quality of life of our local community by improving access to healthcare, advancing education, promoting financial stability, and addressing basic human needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
United way of central virginia (uwcv) raises funds through individual, corporate, events and employee workplace giving campaigns to support health and human service programs. During the reporting year, uwcv allocated funding to 35 programs operated by 24 nonprofit organizations through a volunteer-led review process with board approval. Funded programs served 46,492 unduplicated individuals across central virginia. Uwcv also supported nonprofit capacity through regional volunteer initiatives, including a food drive and a day of caring event, connecting over 800 volunteers with nonprofit projects.
$1,141,332 spentof which $696,667 as grants$-235,179 earned by the program88% of program spendingBright beginnings central virginia (bbcv)bright beginnings central virginia (bbcv) is an early childhood care and education initiative of the united way of central virginia. Bbcv convenes a network of educators and other key stakeholders to address issues concerning early childhood education and kindergarten readiness. Its coalition includes agencies, early childhood educators, health providers and community organizations that work to ensure that children in our region enter kindergarten ready to learn and be successful in school and beyond.bbcv works with public and private programs, licensed childcare centers, home-based and religious childcare programs, and collaborates with virginia's ready region system.bbcv also coordinates the dolly parton imagination library for uwcv, a program that provides a new, age-appropriate book to enrolled children each month until they reach age five. Children can be enrolled at birth.bbcv is currently engaged in planning a new and exciting initiative to enhance the quality of early childhood education programs, supporting children and educators through the americorps model of community service, and working with uwcv to address the concurrent…
$147,715 spent$284,573 earned by the program11% of program spendingCommunity connector programuwcv's community connector program provides centralized, personalized assistance to individuals and families in lynchburg and the counties of appomattox, amherst, bedford, and campbell. The program serves approximately 900 individuals annually through in-person and phone-based services, assisting with access to housing stabilization, utilities, food, healthcare, childcare, and employment resources, with an emphasis on long-term stability and self-sufficiency.
$6,303 spent$15,000 earned by the program0% of program spendingDolly parton's imagination libaryuwcv serves as the local administrator for dolly parton's imagination library in appomattox, amherst, bedford, and campbell counties. The program provides one free, age-appropriate book per month to enrolled children from birth to age five, promoting early literacy and kindergarten readiness. Uwcv is responsible for fundraising, program management, enrollment coordination, and community outreach to support sustained participation.
$2,100 spent$7,020 earned by the program0% of program spendingWarming hearts programthe warming hearts program provides short-term financial assistance to working households experiencing temporary hardship, with a focus on alice (asset limited, income constrained, employed) families. Assistance supports essential needs and helps prevent minor financial disruptions from escalating into long-term crises. The program complements other uwcv-supported assistance efforts and emphasizes prevention, household stability, and long-term economic self-sufficiency.
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,297,450.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.0M to $2.5M (−18%).
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 12% · 2018 11% · 2019 10% · 2020 9% · 2021 53% · 2022 48% · 2023 48% · 2024 35% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Kim Sorensen
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $173k → $1.9M.
14 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 VIRGINIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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 VIRGINIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 VIRGINIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 27% · 2019 42% · 2020 49% · 2021 81% · 2022 81% · 2023 75% — growing more concentrated.
“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 CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
87% of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC's grant income comes from Virginia 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 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 CENTRAL VIRGINIA 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,949,622 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION ($4,448,334). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $7,949,622 in grants to UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC?
- VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,448,334 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 47 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