Kansas · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC
UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC (Kansas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,804,693 to it, the largest being Kansas Health Foundation ($465,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What United Way of Kaw Valley Inc does
Mission
Mission: creating and cultivating an unbreakable network of support vision: healthy and resilient communities where all can thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
United way of kaw valley serves the people of shawnee, douglas, jackson and jefferson counties in northeast kansas. We pair individual and corporate donations with state and national grant dollars to create and cultivate an unbreakable network of support for healthy and resilient communities where all can thrive. Each year uwkv invests and manages millions of dollars to help ensure that regardless of their zip code every family and individual has access to the resources to live, learn and thrive. That can look like access to affordable: - high-quality childcare - high-quality preschool - parenting education and support - physical and mental health care - financial literacy education - job training - family supports/basic needs in times of instability we help families today while knowing that we must also change the systems that perpetuate inequity and generational disadvantage. We think and act strategically about volunteering to increase the capacity of the local nonprofit community to serve our neighbors in need. We convene conversations among donors, partners and stakeholders to create a common understanding of our greatest challenges and to generate better, more inclusive and…
$4,161,107 spentof which $3,605,736 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,161,107.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.6M to $4.2M (+17%).
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 44% · 2018 49% · 2019 56% · 2020 57% · 2021 66% · 2022 63% · 2023 58% · 2024 62% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC’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. 8 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.
Board chair
Marc Fried
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $69k → $247k.
11 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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: $313k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Topeka Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 30 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 KAW VALLEY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
57% 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 KAW VALLEY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 82% · 2019 81% · 2020 64% · 2021 35% · 2022 31% · 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
67% of UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
72% of UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $535k 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.
Against its field
UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC?
- UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC (Kansas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,804,693 to it, the largest being Kansas Health Foundation ($465,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,804,693 in grants to UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC?
- Kansas Health Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $465,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 30 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