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UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC

UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,215,511 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ($182,385). 17 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
$1.3M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$829k
17/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC does

Mission

The mission of united way of mchenry county is to unite people and resources to build a stronger mchenry county

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Grants and allocations to miscellaneous charitable organizations

    $1,139,726 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,139,726.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($868k)2018 Revenue 118 ($1.4M) Expenses 98 ($1.2M) Net assets 127 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 120 ($1.5M) Expenses 110 ($1.4M) Net assets 139 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 120 ($1.5M) Expenses 135 ($1.7M) Net assets 129 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 102 ($1.3M) Expenses 116 ($1.4M) Net assets 108 ($940k)2022 Revenue 90 ($1.1M) Expenses 67 ($826k) Net assets 140 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 119 ($1.5M) Expenses 110 ($1.4M) Net assets 151 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 106 ($1.3M) Expenses 129 ($1.6M) Net assets 117 ($1.0M)2025 Revenue 107 ($1.3M) Expenses 121 ($1.5M) Net assets 95 ($829k)
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Revenue (107)Expenses (121)Net assets (95)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $1.0M (−23%).

$972k
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$984k
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.0M
$829k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 0% · 2022 7% · 2023 23% · 2024 36% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$16k
’17
$234k
’18
$104k
’19
−$197k
’20
−$181k
’21
$277k
’22
$95k
’23
−$300k
’24
−$183k
’25
3.7
months of
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.

Board chair

Georgia Majors

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed211516201816131511
Joined·+0+2+11+0+2+4+5+0
No longer listed·61724734
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $61k → $302k.

11 of 29 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.

From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY 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 McHENRY COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

89% 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 McHENRY COUNTY INC.

15%
largest funder
41%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 60% · 2019 36% · 2020 19% · 2021 33% · 2022 48% · 2023 31% — 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

35% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 McHENRY COUNTY 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 $522k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL
WI
MO
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $694k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.2M to it.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 17%Fundraising 7%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC?
UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,215,511 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ($182,385). 17 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 McHENRY COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,215,511 in grants to UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC?
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE is the largest funder on record, with $182,385 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 29 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