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UNITED WAY OF HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY INC

UNITED WAY OF HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $442,732 to it, the largest being K JOSH MIZE AND WYNONA OWEN MIZE CHARITABLE ($326,206). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$658k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$443k
Net assets
$1.2M
5/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What United Way of Hopkinsville and Christian County Inc does

Mission

Facilitate the funding of numerous non-profit organizations for community development and service

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Support to affiliated united way organizations and local agencies. The program functions in the distribution of pledge monies collected and sent to numerous agencies for community service and development. The expense represents the funds that are sent to these agencies.

    $530,312 spentof which $415,216 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Cost in the functions to carry out the collection and allocation of the pledge funds for the agencies

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $530,312.

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 ($695k) Expenses 100 ($643k) Net assets 100 ($968k)2018 Revenue 99 ($689k) Expenses 103 ($659k) Net assets 99 ($962k)2019 Revenue 100 ($697k) Expenses 95 ($613k) Net assets 108 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 96 ($664k) Expenses 104 ($667k) Net assets 108 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 84 ($582k) Expenses 102 ($653k) Net assets 100 ($972k)2022 Revenue 87 ($602k) Expenses 98 ($630k) Net assets 98 ($944k)2023 Revenue 97 ($672k) Expenses 95 ($613k) Net assets 100 ($968k)2024 Revenue 90 ($629k) Expenses 86 ($553k) Net assets 119 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 95 ($658k) Expenses 100 ($645k) Net assets 123 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (95)Expenses (100)Net assets (123)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 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+43%).

$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.5M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.4M
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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

92% of UNITED WAY OF HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$52k
’17
$29k
’18
$85k
’19
−$3k
’20
−$72k
’21
−$28k
’22
$59k
’23
$75k
’24
$12k
’25
15
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

Lana Bastin

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed242424242222222323
Joined·+7+5+7+4+5+6+1+0
No longer listed·75765600
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $42k → $36k.

6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN 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 HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

26% 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 HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY INC.

74%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 78% · 2022 48% · 2023 99% — 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

20% of UNITED WAY OF HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

UNITED WAY OF HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 5 states in all.

SD
MO
KY
GA
FL

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

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Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve15.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like UNITED WAY OF HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 4%Fundraising 14%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY INC?
UNITED WAY OF HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $442,732 to it, the largest being K JOSH MIZE AND WYNONA OWEN MIZE CHARITABLE ($326,206). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNITED WAY OF HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $442,732 in grants to UNITED WAY OF HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY INC?
K JOSH MIZE AND WYNONA OWEN MIZE CHARITABLE is the largest funder on record, with $326,206 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 11 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