Ohio · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO
UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO (Ohio) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,250,769 to it, the largest being THE O-I CHARITIES FOUNDATION ($3,039,242). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $26M
What United Way of Greater Toledo does
Mission
United Way of Greater Toledo unites the caring power of people to improve lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
United Way of Greater Toledo uncovers root-cause issues that keep community members from reaching key programs that help them live the robust life they deserve. United way has transitioned to a collaborative impact model with four focuses: education, financial stability, health, and shelter / housing stability. The purpose of this model is to create a shared-community-vision, which will leverage funding, resources and expertise from business, philanthropic and academic partners. This is accomplished via staff, volunteers and partners working to discover community conditions that need improvement, accompanied with the designing and building of longterm solutions. For details, please visit us at www.unitedwaytoledo.org.
$2,790,011 spentof which $1,684,510 as grants54% of program spendingDonor designations: through the campaign pledging process, donors are given the opportunity to direct all or part of their contribution to another qualified agency. As pledges are collected these designations are paid quarterly.
$1,016,034 spentof which $1,016,034 as grants20% of program spendingUnited way 2-1-1 is a free, 24/7, 365-day health and human services resource available to anyone in lucas, ottawa and wood county. To speak with a live community resource advisor, simply dial two, one, one; text your zip code to 898-211; instant message us online by visiting www.211nwo.org and click "chat."
$854,655 spent17% of program spendingData analytics, united way volunteer center, united way public policy/advocacy, community impact
$471,373 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,132,073.
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 $31M to $27M (−15%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 8% · 2021 9% · 2022 16% · 2023 7% · 2024 7% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% 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.
Chief executive
Wendy Pestrue
CEO
Board chair
Mary Louise Bowe
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.6M.
16 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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: $515k from 13 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Summit and Medina). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 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 TOLEDO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
53% 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 TOLEDO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 38% · 2019 53% · 2020 37% · 2021 23% · 2022 26% · 2023 22% — 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
47% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
88% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 TOLEDO runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Upic Solutions Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO: 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 TOLEDO?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO (Ohio) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,250,769 to it, the largest being THE O-I CHARITIES FOUNDATION ($3,039,242). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $10,250,769 in grants to UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO?
- THE O-I CHARITIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,039,242 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO 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 73 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