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UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY
UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY (New Jersey) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,650,998 to it, the largest being C R BARD FOUNDATION INC ($564,076). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $3.7M to it.
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.
- The Summit Foundationshared funderslocal
- Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fundportfolio match
- Siemer Instituteportfolio 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: 2017 42% · 2018 56% · 2019 64% · 2020 59% · 2021 73% · 2022 73% · 2023 90% · 2024 49% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $438k → $221k.
11 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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 UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 45% · 2019 35% · 2020 21% · 2021 27% · 2022 19% · 2023 20% — 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
48% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
59% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $731k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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 46 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Summit Foundationshared funderslocalNJ · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 50 organizations near you
- Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Siemer Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Tri County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Plymouth Community United Wayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of North Carolinaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Florida Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of New York Stateportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Ways of Tennesseeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Association of United Ways Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Ways of Iowaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Victoria Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
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 UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $152k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$100k
- Department of the Treasury$52k
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 UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY: 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 UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY (New Jersey) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,650,998 to it, the largest being C R BARD FOUNDATION INC ($564,076). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $3,650,998 in grants to UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY?
- C R BARD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $564,076 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 46funders 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