Iowa · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA
UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,504,102 to it, the largest being THE HALL-PERRINE FOUNDATION ($5,336,200). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $15M
What United Way of East Central Iowa does
Mission
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
United Way of East Central Iowa (uweci) helps to fund nonprofit programs in their five-county area that support their strategic focus areas of building economic mobility, fostering childhood success, improving access to healthcare and supporting safety net services. Investments in these nonprofit partners are determined on a three-year cycle by the organization's solutions teams and accountability review team, which are made up of community-based volunteers.
$3,171,567 spentof which $3,171,567 as grants59% of program spendingUweci is focused on connecting with the community to get involved via united way through volunteering, investing and advocating efforts that align with their unite to inspire strategic focus areas. Their impact in the community includes connecting volunteers in rural areas through their volunteer centers throughout their five-county area, the vita (volunteer income tax assistance) program which provides free tax preparation to qualified individuals utilizing community volunteers, as well as advocacy work through their civic circle and women united leadership society as well as many other initiatives.
$1,349,900 spentof which $474,219 as grants$89,618 earned by the program25% of program spendingThe human services campus, a disregarded entity of uweci, owns and operates a facility home to several local nonprofit agencies focused on providing health and human services. Nonprofit agencies housed in this 65,000-square-foot building serve thousands of clients making a daily impact within our five-county region of linn, benton, cedar, iowa and jones counties that is well beyond the reach of just cedar rapids. The facility's conference and training rooms are available for community use, and the location is conveniently accessible by car, bicycle, on foot, or via public transportation. The goal of this shared facility is to provide low-cost leases to nonprofit agencies so that more resources can be spent on service delivery to client. This is achieved by renting out space to these agencies at 50% of the market rental rate.
$845,490 spent$319,361 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,366,957.
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 2019 to 2020, from $21M to $19M (−7%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 4% · 2023 2% · 2024 7% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA’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. 7 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
Kristin Roberts
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.5M.
14 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $3.0M from 12 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation); $828k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way of East Central Iowa). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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 EAST CENTRAL IOWA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% 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 EAST CENTRAL IOWA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 51% · 2019 48% · 2020 29% · 2021 37% · 2022 30% · 2023 37% — 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
48% of UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA'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
83% of UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M 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.
Against its field
UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA is better cushioned than half of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $887k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$887k
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 EAST CENTRAL IOWA
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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
- Human Services Campus LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: 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 EAST CENTRAL IOWA?
- UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,504,102 to it, the largest being THE HALL-PERRINE FOUNDATION ($5,336,200). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $13,504,102 in grants to UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA?
- THE HALL-PERRINE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,336,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 70 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