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UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY

UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY (Illinois) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,648,658 to it, the largest being FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ($1,046,440). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.3M
Funders on record
38
Grants received
$5.6M
Net assets
$8.0M
26/38 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What United Way of Champaign County does

Mission

United Way of Champaign County brings people and resources together to create positive change and lasting impact for our community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Community impact/community organizer - mobilizing volunteer resources, providing management assistance to funded programs and participating in community organizations to develop alliances and networks to promote public awareness of needs.

    $4,245,983 spentof which $3,520,727 as grants$79,007 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,245,983.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.4M) Net assets 100 ($2.5M)2018 Revenue 110 ($3.9M) Expenses 100 ($3.4M) Net assets 122 ($3.1M)2019 Revenue 131 ($4.7M) Expenses 100 ($3.4M) Net assets 174 ($4.4M)2020 Revenue 128 ($4.5M) Expenses 129 ($4.4M) Net assets 183 ($4.7M)2021 Revenue 127 ($4.5M) Expenses 138 ($4.7M) Net assets 195 ($5.0M)2022 Revenue 122 ($4.4M) Expenses 129 ($4.4M) Net assets 182 ($4.6M)2023 Revenue 161 ($5.7M) Expenses 149 ($5.0M) Net assets 216 ($5.5M)2024 Revenue 185 ($6.6M) Expenses 152 ($5.1M) Net assets 286 ($7.3M)2025 Revenue 148 ($5.3M) Expenses 148 ($5.0M) Net assets 315 ($8.0M)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (148)Net assets (315)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $7.8M to $9.7M (+25%).

$4.3M
$4.9M
$6.3M
$6.8M
$7.0M
$6.9M
$7.8M
$9.7M
$10M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,053 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$169k
’17
$520k
’18
$1.3M
’19
$174k
’20
−$157k
’21
$45
’22
$677k
’23
$1.5M
’24
$246k
’25
2.8
months of
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

Susan Grey

President and CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed283029292928272530
Joined·+4+4+7+8+6+7+3+9
No longer listed·25787854
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $246k → $532k.

15 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 CHAMPAIGN COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 CHAMPAIGN COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 CHAMPAIGN COUNTY.

19%
largest funder
49%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 48% · 2019 51% · 2020 45% · 2021 28% · 2022 40% · 2023 25% — 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

42% of UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

98% of UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
WI
NY
PA
NJ
CT
MO
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Months of reserve2.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 5%Fundraising 10%

Governance

25
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY?
UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY (Illinois) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,648,658 to it, the largest being FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ($1,046,440). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $5,648,658 in grants to UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY?
FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS is the largest funder on record, with $1,046,440 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 38 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