Ohio · Nonprofit
United Way of Greater Cincinnati
United Way of Greater Cincinnati (Ohio) receives grants from 174 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,873,928 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($28,992,559). 124 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45M
- Funders on record
- 174
- Grants received
- $71M
- Net assets
- $63M
What United Way of Greater Cincinnati does
Mission
United Way leads and mobilizes the caring power of individuals and organizations to help people measurably improve their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Impact Solutions See Schedule O
$35,519,074 spentof which $30,894,536 as grants$621,515 earned by the program81% of program spendingDirect Services See Schedule O Direct Services Direct Services are services provided by UWGC, such as United Way 211 and United Way Volunteer Connection. United Way 211 and Care Coordination links people to services and volunteer opportunities. United Way 211 is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to people in: Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, and Warren in Ohio and Boone, Kenton, Campbell, and Grant counties in Kentucky. United Way Volunteer Connection strives to increase the effectiveness and participation of all segments of volunteer resources through recruitment, training, education, and recognition. United Way VITA program provides free income tax preparation and filing services.
$4,538,958 spentof which $687,032 as grants10% of program spendingDonor Designations See Schedule O Donor Designations Donor Designations As part of the UWGC campaign, donors may designate all or a portion of their pledge to a UWGC initiative or impact area, a UWGC agency partner, or another United Way. Some donors are able to designate to any 501(c)(3) organization, based on their company's giving platform. Organizations receiving donor designated contributions through UWGC undergo screening prior to distribution of funding. Screening includes verification of compliance with the provisions of the Patriot Act and verification of current status as an IRS code section 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Designations received in the fall campaign are distributed the following year based upon amounts collected.
$3,553,726 spentof which $3,553,726 as grants8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $43,611,758.
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 $64M to $87M (+35%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 3% · 2021 2% · 2022 17% · 2023 21% · 2024 4% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of United Way of Greater Cincinnati’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. 5 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
Moira Weir
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Brian Hodgett
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 47 funders to 72 funders, grant income rose $3.3M → $5.7M.
24 of 174 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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: $62M from 31 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Greater Cincinnati Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money United Way of Greater Cincinnati raised.
From the IRS filings of United Way of Greater Cincinnati’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 174 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 Cincinnati leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 50%; half comes from just 4 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
67% 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 Cincinnati.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 12% · 2018 8% · 2019 27% · 2020 14% · 2021 83% · 2022 9% · 2023 11% — broadly stable.
“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 Cincinnati's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
57% of United Way of Greater Cincinnati's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $31M that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 Cincinnati's revenue fell 26% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding United Way of Greater Cincinnati receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of the Treasury$952k
- Federal Communications Commission$200k
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 Cincinnati
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- United Way of Greater Cincinnati Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for United Way of Greater Cincinnati: 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 Cincinnati?
- United Way of Greater Cincinnati (Ohio) receives grants from 174 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,873,928 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($28,992,559). 124 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does United Way of Greater Cincinnati have?
- IRS filings report 174 organizations giving $70,873,928 in grants to United Way of Greater Cincinnati, 124 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of United Way of Greater Cincinnati?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $28,992,559 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like United Way of Greater Cincinnati find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 174 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