Connecticut · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC
UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,888,095 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,328,252). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.0M
- Funders on record
- 88
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc does
Mission
United way coastal and western connecticut (uwcwc) envisions a community where every person is healthy, safe, and economically secure. Our mission is to work in partnership with community to address critical needs and advance equitable pathways to wellbeing and financial security for everyone. Uwcwc serves 27-towns across fairfield and southern litchfield counties and more than 25-percent of the state's population. Our work is centered on the alice (asset limited, income constrained, employed) population. This data-driven initiative highlights the true cost of living in our community. In fairfield and southern litchfield counties, 42% of households live below the alice threshold, which represents the minimum income level necessary for a household to afford the basic cost of living in their community. Alice families include essential workers such as child care providers, health aides, retail staff, and educators.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community impact grants and other distributions: united way supports programs that create measurable impact in the areas of education, financial stability, health, civic engagement, and community building. We leverage the power of financial resources and volunteer efforts, investing in programs that drive strong outcomes, foster community partnerships, and promote long-term change. Funding decisions are made locally by volunteers across five regions. Grants support those nonprofits that focus their resources on lifting up alice households.
$1,096,598 spentof which $1,096,598 as grants14% of program spendingWhere gaps in critical services exist, united way coastal and western connecticut develops direct service programs to meet the needs of alice households. United way's direct service program activities are focused on education, health, financial stability, and collective action. Education: united way of coastal and western connecticut supports early childhood education and literacy through several initiatives. Since 2018, the cora's kids family child care network has added over 900 licensed child care slots, supported 150 licensed providers, and served more than 1,000 children from low- to moderate-income families in greater danbury and new milford. To build community leadership and awareness, cora's kids also leads the community messenger program, which has trained and mobilized over 170 individuals in danbury and new milford. In 2024, cora's kids launched seedlings to sprouts, a farm-to-school initiative that has planted 12 home gardens and served hundreds of providers and families through access to fresh produce and nutrition education. A back to school programs across greater danbury, southern litchfield county, and bridgeport deliver much needed school supplies to low- and…
$6,850,722 spent86% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,947,320.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.5M to $12M (+78%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 12% · 2021 8% · 2022 26% · 2023 32% · 2024 30% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Carolyn Salsgiver Kobsa
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $879k → $2.2M.
18 of 88 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.7M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 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 COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
59% 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 COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 49% · 2019 21% · 2020 13% · 2021 24% · 2022 18% · 2023 19% — 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
45% of UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC's funding base is broadening — from 18 funders to 46 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.9M on record — $4.4M federal, $2.4M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.3M
- Department of Education$2.2M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$1.5M
- Educational Services$294k
- State Aid Grants$220k
- Management Consultant Services$181k
- Board & Care Of Clients$157k
- Trnsfr Grant Expend-St Agency$111k
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 COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Prosperity Digital Marketplace LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT 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 COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC?
- UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,888,095 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,328,252). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC have?
- IRS filings report 88 organizations giving $13,888,095 in grants to UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,328,252 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 88 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