Virginia · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE (Virginia) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,910,359 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION ($27,364,044). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $36M
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What United Way of Greater Charlottesville does
Mission
The United Way of Greater Charlottesville connects our community, enabling individuals and families to achieve their potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School readiness: recognizing the crucial role of education in building economic independence to break the cycle of poverty, envision focuses on strengthening school readiness among economically disadvantaged children to prepare for a life of academic success. As such, this initiative builds systems at the community level to ensure every child and family has access to high-quality early childhood education. The organization's five-year strategic goal is to reduce the current shortfall of 2,700+ early education and care slots by investing in the growth of new early education placements; provide access to supports such that 95% of all publicly funded early education sites will improve their virginia quality site scores. See sch. O for continuation. Strategies and programs include:1. Grantmaking and funding opportunities for partners focused on decreasing the opportunity gap for at-risk children under age five.2. Early education: expands access and high-quality services for all children ages zero to five. The united way, in partnership with the virginia early childhood foundation as the designated lead agency for ready regions blue ridge, administers grants for the following…
$10,206,235 spentof which $595,629 as grants87% of program spendingConnected community: united way leads collaborative systems-building through the establishment and facilitation of community-wide task forces, coalitions, forums, and social equity initiatives, empowering people, organizations, and businesses to come together as volunteers and partners to make our community stronger. The organizations' strategic goal is to lead 100 community convenings including task forces, coalitions, and forums, from january 2023 to december 2027. See sch. O for continuation. Strategies and programs include: 1. United way day of caring: an annual day of community service in september that promotes volunteerism by connecting local businesses, civic groups, and area citizens to nonprofit organizations and schools.2. Caring for community awards: recognizes everyday unsung heroes for going above and beyond in service to the community3. Volunteer center: connects potential volunteers to local service needs at nonprofits and schools4. Women united: enables women to come together through collective giving, education, and strategic action to empower and uplift organizations supporting women and children.5. Community engagement committee: fosters an organizational…
$249,954 spentof which $22,500 as grants2% of program spendingFinancial stability: united way helps families achieve financial independence by providing: innovative services that leverage the organization's strengths as a collaborator and convener, access to a network of partner nonprofits with complimentary services, and grant opportunities for small business owners. The organization's five-year strategic goal is to help support 1,800 alice families move closer to financial independence by december 2027 in the thomas jefferson planning district (tjpd). See sch. O for continuation. Strategies and programs include:1. Family investment program: a family-centered investment model that supports families who are working toward financial stability by eliminating specific barriers to success. 2. Driving lives forward: connects economically disadvantaged individuals and families with reliable motor vehicles, downpayment assistance, auto insurance support, and affordable auto loan financing. 3. Uw2work fleet: united way formed uw2work, llc to hold a fleet of loaner vehicles in partnership with piedmont virginia community college's network2work program. The program offers used vehicles to clients for a six-month period, with the option to purchase,…
$768,017 spentof which $367,549 as grants7% of program spendingAdministrative partners: provides services and support, including but not limited to, operations, financial, marketing, fund disbursement, and programmatic.1. Santa fund for schoolkids: provides clothing, shoes, medicine, eyeglasses, and other essentials for low-income school children in charlottesville and the counties of albemarle, buckingham, fluvanna, greene, louisa, madison, nelson, and orange.2. Pathways: in partnership with the city of charlottesville, united way provides families with emergency rent, mortgage, and utility assistance through the pathways community resource helpline.3. Dolly parton imagination library: a global book-gifting program that provides free, high-quality books to children from birth to age five to inspire a lifelong love of reading.
$466,894 spentof which $352,624 as grants4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,691,100.
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 $6.4M to $7.9M (+23%).
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 33% · 2018 29% · 2019 30% · 2020 34% · 2021 55% · 2022 50% · 2023 63% · 2024 77% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $514k → $4.4M.
11 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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 CHARLOTTESVILLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 CHARLOTTESVILLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 30% · 2019 31% · 2020 82% · 2021 78% · 2022 76% · 2023 86% — growing more concentrated.
“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
53% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
98% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 CHARLOTTESVILLE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 452 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 452 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.4M
- Department of the Treasury$214k
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 CHARLOTTESVILLE
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 2 related entities
- Uw2work LLC · disregarded
- 200 Garrett Street Uw LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE (Virginia) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,910,359 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION ($27,364,044). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $35,910,359 in grants to UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE?
- VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,364,044 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 47 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