Michigan · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY
UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,094,911 to it, the largest being Michigan 2-1-1 Inc ($1,907,072). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $0
What United Way of Jackson County does
Mission
United Way of Jackson County (uwjc) is dedicated to creating a community rich in opportunities to eliminate poverty and allow all people to achieve financial stability and success. This emphasis on financial stability includes meeting immediate needs.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2021 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During the fiscal year, the organization completed a merger with two other united ways and ceased independent operations.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
United Way of Jackson County (uwjc) unites people, resources and expertise to understand the complexities of poverty and create solutions that drive financial stability. Specifically, uwjc focuses on programs and partnerships targeting poverty and economic instability affecting vulnerable individuals and families throughout jackson county. Our vision is to create a community rich in opportunities to eliminate poverty and allow all people to achieve financial stability and success. As a measure of our progress, uwjc has set a goal of helping 5,000 jackson county residents develop a pathway to financial success by 2025.in 2020, uwjc invested $703,096 in 27 programs with 18 local partners focused on building financial stability. These efforts impacted an estimated 60,000 people in jackson county. Among these investments:jobstar (support, talent and retention), an employee resource network that embeds a success coach at participating businesses.
$6,931,429 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,931,429.
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.
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 $6.9M to $0 (−100%).
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 22% · 2018 75% · 2019 82% · 2020 82% · 2021 82% · 2022 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Kenneth Toll
Executive director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $50k → $55k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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: $188k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jackson Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY’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 JACKSON COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
66% 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 JACKSON COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 83% · 2019 91% · 2020 49% · 2021 63% · 2022 60% · 2023 72% — 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
36% of UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
96% of UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 JACKSON COUNTY: 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 JACKSON COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,094,911 to it, the largest being Michigan 2-1-1 Inc ($1,907,072). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $3,094,911 in grants to UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY?
- Michigan 2-1-1 Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,907,072 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 16 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