Georgia · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 223 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,551,843 to it, the largest being The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc ($8,350,000). 139 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $95M
- Funders on record
- 223
- Grants received
- $80M
- Net assets
- $97M
What United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc does
Mission
United way of greater atlanta engages and brings together people and resources to drive sustainable and equitable improvements in the well-being of children, families, and individuals in the community. For individuals and organizations that want to help improve the health of their community, united way of greater atlanta is the platform that enables individuals, groups, and companies to make a difference individually and collectively in whatever way they wish to contribute their time, talent, and treasure.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
United way invests impact dollars in assembling teams of nonprofits to work on collaborative solutions that lead to positive and sustainable outcomes for children and families, like giving kids the skills to succeed in school, teaching financial education and job training, bringing primary care access and giving families the tools to remove themselves from homelessness. Giving to the united way child well-being impact fund allows you to have the biggest impact on our community. The fund covers multiple areas that help advance child well-being across greater atlanta. Decisions are made through a process directed by united way and involves subject matter experts, as well as trained volunteers. Investments are directed toward programs delivered by partner nonprofits with proven effectiveness in creating measurable and sustainable contributions to the community.
$1,341,753 spentof which $1,341,753 as grants2% of program spendingUnited way helps people volunteer in a number of ways, such as lending their professional expertise, advocating on behalf of issues, and donating household and office items. United way provides support and expertise through five local offices to help communities solve problems. Through technical assistance and gifts in kind atlanta, united way helps nonprofit organizations operate more effectively and efficiently. We work with stakeholders in communities across our service area to collectively address and implement strategies to ensure that all people in our region can thrive. United way of greater atlanta's 2-1-1 contact center is a full-service contact center that connects people to the assistance they need to address everyday challenges of living, as well as those that develop during times of community emergencies. Answering over 79,000 live contacts through telephone, text, live chat, email, and postal searches as well as over 367,000 digital contacts through text on demand, mobile app, chatbot and web searches, 2-1-1 helps many throughout the community. The community can visit our website to search the 211 database for themselves.
$19,610,788 spentof which $12,743,939 as grants$37,075 earned by the program26% of program spendingUnited way has adopted, in partnership with dozens of community partners, a "yardstick" for child wellbeing a set of 16 measures that allow us to assess how well children and families are doing by neighborhood. United way's programs are designed to move the needle on these critical measures. Its focuses are on creating strong foundations for children to grow, thereby providing opportunities for success despite adverse conditions, as well as nurturing communities that need wraparound support. For every measure of child well-being, there is a multitude of factors that can adversely influence outcomes and a series of actions we can take that can change these outcomes for the better. We consider all potential solutions that help us move the needle, including evidence-based strategies, innovative programs, policies, volunteerism, and more.
$48,070,497 spentof which $43,650,897 as grants$1,453,467 earned by the program64% of program spendingUnited way provides support and services to community groups and public agencies across greater atlanta through the use of the loudermilk conference center. The loudermilk conference center exemplifies united way's commitment to the city by serving as the premier meeting place for metro atlanta nonprofit organizations, civic groups and the business community. United way also leases the woodruff volunteer center to non-profits and other businesses. Additionally, united way earns revenue on fees for service arrangements.
$5,704,958 spent$5,325,000 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $74,727,996.
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 2021 to 2022, from $112M to $125M (+12%).
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 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 2% · 2021 26% · 2022 24% · 2023 20% · 2024 7% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Milton Little Jr
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 45 funders to 97 funders, grant income rose $3.3M → $11M.
28 of 223 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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: $155M from 47 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Joseph B Whitehead Foundation); $115k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 223 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 GREATER ATLANTA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
55% 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 GREATER ATLANTA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 18% · 2019 13% · 2020 25% · 2021 16% · 2022 19% · 2023 15% — 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
47% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 GREATER ATLANTA INC draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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 GREATER ATLANTA INC is better cushioned than half of the 490 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.0M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$6.9M
- Department of the Treasury$3.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$140k
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 GREATER ATLANTA 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 Georgia
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
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- 247 Gateway Center · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA 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 GREATER ATLANTA INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 223 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,551,843 to it, the largest being The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc ($8,350,000). 139 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC have?
- IRS filings report 223 organizations giving $79,551,843 in grants to UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC, 139 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC?
- The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $8,350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 223 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