Oregon · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF DESCHUTES COUNTY
UNITED WAY OF DESCHUTES COUNTY (Oregon) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,637,014 to it, the largest being CENTRAL OREGON HEALTH COUNCIL ($2,035,176). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $605k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $0
What United Way of Deschutes County does
Mission
United way of central oregon brings people, organizations, and businesses together to address the community's most pressing human service needs through services that change people's lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During the year ended june 30, 2023, the organization's board of directors elected to close operations and began exploring options to either dissolve the organization or to merge the organization into another united way organization in the state of oregon. During february 2024, a plan and agreement of merger was signed, which merged united way of the columbia-willamette (uwcw) and the United Way of Deschutes County (uwco). Following the merger, uwcw continued as the surviving corporation and the existence of uwco ceased. Uwco's net assets were transfeerred to uwcw at the end of march 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Donor choice - the organization offers donor the opportunity to designate their gift directly to 501 (3) organizations of their choice. Donations given through united way provide support to a wide variety of nonprofits and help keep fundraising cost low for these organizations as well as increasing philanthropy within the community. During february 2024, a plan and agreement of merger was signed, which merged united way of the columbia-willamette (uwcw) and the United Way of Deschutes County (uwco). Following the merger, uwcw continued as the surviving corporation and the existence of uwco ceased. Uwco's net assets were transfeerred to uwcw at the end of march 2024.
$107,470 spentof which $94,552 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $107,470.
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 2018 to 2019, from $963k to $2.3M (+142%).
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 5% · 2018 10% · 2019 7% · 2020 3% · 2021 36% · 2022 9% · 2023 28% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Kelly O'Lague
CEO
Board chair
Tichelle Sorensen
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $143k → $199k.
9 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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: $48k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Bartholomew County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF DESCHUTES COUNTY raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF DESCHUTES COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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 DESCHUTES COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 DESCHUTES COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 94% · 2019 81% · 2020 57% · 2021 35% · 2022 30% · 2023 35% — 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
27% of UNITED WAY OF DESCHUTES COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
99% of UNITED WAY OF DESCHUTES COUNTY's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $968k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 DESCHUTES COUNTY
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
32% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF DESCHUTES COUNTY: 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 DESCHUTES COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF DESCHUTES COUNTY (Oregon) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,637,014 to it, the largest being CENTRAL OREGON HEALTH COUNCIL ($2,035,176). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF DESCHUTES COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $3,637,014 in grants to UNITED WAY OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF DESCHUTES COUNTY?
- CENTRAL OREGON HEALTH COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $2,035,176 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF DESCHUTES COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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