Tennessee · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC
UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,330,891 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($575,386). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc does
Mission
Mission: to improve lives. Uwgk mobilizes our community to action by addressing local health and human service needs. Vision: a community where everyone has an opportunity to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ensuring healthy community agency recipients of service: appalachian miles for smiles casa for kids childrens advocacy center of sullivan co first tn human resource agency friends in need frontier health legal aid of east tennessee mountain region speech & hearing meals on wheels small miracles there. Equestrian center
$547,400 spentof which $547,400 as grants25% of program spendingEnsuring youth opportunities agency recipients of service: big brothers/big sisters scouting of america boys & girls club of greater kingsport frontier health girl scouts girls incorporated holston children & youth kingsport child development center small miracles therapeutic riding center sullivan county imagination library
$527,988 spentof which $527,988 as grants24% of program spendingPromoting financial security agency recipients of service: family promise literacy council of kingsport oasis of kingsport the salvation army upper east tn human development agency
$171,072 spentof which $171,072 as grants8% of program spendingPromoting community resiliency 85,000 american red cross all other accomplishments 873,857
$958,857 spentof which $595,125 as grants$63,342 earned by the program43% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,205,317.
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 $4.9M to $4.6M (−6%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 1% · 2022 4% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT 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. 9 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 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $90k → $205k.
9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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: $649k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Eastman Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 KINGSPORT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 KINGSPORT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 60% · 2019 60% · 2020 30% · 2021 42% · 2022 40% · 2023 33% — 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
55% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% 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
65% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT 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 $465k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $866k 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 KINGSPORT INC's revenue fell 20% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT 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 Tennessee
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
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT 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 KINGSPORT INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,330,891 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($575,386). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% 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 KINGSPORT INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,330,891 in grants to UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $575,386 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 21 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