Washington · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON (Washington) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,086,711 to it, the largest being PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST ($175,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $841k
What United Way of Central Washington does
Mission
United Way of Central Washington gathers together people, ideas and resources to strengthen communities and improve lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
United way and member agencies help people in yakima and kittitas counties improve their quality of life through education, increased financial stability, and improved health. In total, 67 programs, serving 150,000 people, were funded. United way distributes contributed funds through a volunteer-led community investment process. More than 50 volunteers evaluate funded programs' performance by conducting site visits, reviewing financial information, and examining program outcome measurements. In addition, united way conducts special projects and supports collaborations called community initiatives which address specific issues. Urrently, there are six initiatives 1) ongoing support of 2-1-1: a 3-digit information and referral phone number for connecting people to social services. 2) early learning collaboration: kindergarten readiness calendar distribution, and collaboration with the investing in children coalition. 3) yakima county homeless network: homeless assistance investment and project homeless connect. 4) yakima county asset building coalition. 5) new leaders yakima county: networking, community learning, and development for emerging leaders. 6) central washington aces…
$970,439 spentof which $739,407 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $970,439.
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 2024 to 2025, from $775k to $1.2M (+54%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 16% · 2023 5% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Board chair
Laura Terrazas
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $40k → $87k.
10 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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: $683k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way Foundation of Central Wa). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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 WASHINGTON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
89% 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 WASHINGTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 88% · 2019 46% · 2020 29% · 2021 46% · 2022 16% · 2023 21% — 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
63% of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
58% of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $454k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $633k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 WASHINGTON
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 2 related entities
- United Way Foundation of Central Washington · exempt
- United Way Worldwide · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON: 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 WASHINGTON?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON (Washington) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,086,711 to it, the largest being PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST ($175,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,086,711 in grants to UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON?
- PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 23 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