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UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK

UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK (New Jersey) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,918,031 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($4,085,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.7M
Revenue FY2025
54
Funders on record
$11M
Grants received
$5.8M
Net assets
28/54 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 76%

Against its field

UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($3.8M) Expenses 100 ($4.0M) Net assets 100 ($6.6M)2018 Revenue 74 ($2.8M) Expenses 73 ($2.9M) Net assets 102 ($6.7M)2019 Revenue 68 ($2.6M) Expenses 72 ($2.9M) Net assets 103 ($6.8M)2020 Revenue 209 ($7.9M) Expenses 149 ($5.9M) Net assets 132 ($8.7M)2021 Revenue 138 ($5.2M) Expenses 160 ($6.4M) Net assets 120 ($7.9M)2022 Revenue 123 ($4.7M) Expenses 136 ($5.4M) Net assets 101 ($6.7M)2023 Revenue 80 ($3.0M) Expenses 105 ($4.2M) Net assets 91 ($6.0M)2024 Revenue 38 ($1.5M) Expenses 55 ($2.2M) Net assets 90 ($5.9M)2025 Revenue 71 ($2.7M) Expenses 75 ($3.0M) Net assets 88 ($5.8M)
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Revenue (71)Expenses (75)Net assets (88)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

88% of UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,048 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$187k
17
$98k
18
$302k
19
$2.0M
20
$1.1M
21
$767k
22
$1.1M
23
$728k
24
$324k
25
2.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $290k → $648k.

8 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)5% 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 ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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 ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

25% 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 ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK.

37%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 68% · 2019 45% · 2020 46% · 2021 44% · 2022 40% · 2023 39%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

25% of UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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

80% of UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

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

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New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $506k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 54 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $155k on record.

Federal$155k
grants $155kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of the Treasury$155k

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 ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New Jersey

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 15%Fundraising 5%

Governance

14
board members
93%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

84%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Aurora Foundation - Currently Inactive · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK: 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 ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK?
UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK (New Jersey) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,918,031 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($4,085,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK have?
IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $10,918,031 in grants to UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK?
THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,085,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 54funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing