North Carolina · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC
UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 99 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,595,822 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,029,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
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.
- Smart Start of Forsyth Countylocal
- United Way of Tri County Incportfolio match
- HD Supply Charitable Fund Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 2% · 2022 6% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC’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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.3M.
23 of 99 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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: $5.7M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 99 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 GREENSBORO INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 39% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
70% 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 GREENSBORO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 20% · 2019 24% · 2020 12% · 2021 81% · 2022 21% · 2023 24% — 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
49% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
64% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC'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 $9.1M that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
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 99 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Smart Start of Forsyth CountylocalNC · funds 77 organizations near you
- United Way of Tri County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- HD Supply Charitable Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Jane H & Peter J Dapuzzo Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Compassion and Charity Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Plymouth Community United Wayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- FINRA Investor Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central Jersey Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The United Way of Greater Waterbury Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The James Annenberg la Vea Char Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Twin City Development FoundationlocalNC · funds 64 organizations near you
- High Point Community FoundationlocalNC · funds 64 organizations near you
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 GREATER GREENSBORO INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Labor$1.0M
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 GREENSBORO INC
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO 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 GREENSBORO INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 99 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,595,822 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,029,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% 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 GREENSBORO INC have?
- IRS filings report 99 organizations giving $25,595,822 in grants to UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $10,029,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 99funders 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