UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY

Programs

1. Supporting youth & early learning (education strategies): parentchild+ (pc+) is a home-visiting program that connects families to resources, promotes parent-child verbal interaction through play, and prepares the family for kindergarten. Since the start of pc+, more than 14,000 children and families have been served with 830 children served this past year. Participants are more likely to demonstrate kindergarten readiness, more likely to meet 3rd grade math and reading standards, and 30% more likely to graduate high school.

   $11,214,514 spentof which $11,214,514 as grants
   28% of program spending

2. Homelessness prevention & rental assistance: the organization received another year of keep king county housed funds. More than 500 households received rental assistance providing up to 9 months of back rent and 3 months forward rent to keep families in their homes. Additionally, the organization worked with 400 rental properties to provide and prevented eviction for over 200 households.

   $8,022,454 spentof which $7,721,832 as grants
   20% of program spending

3. Equitable philanthropy: our equitable philanthropy program in fy25 encompassed the black community building collective (bcbc), the indigenous communities fund (icf), and backbone support for our county's portion of the state department of commerce's community reinvestment plan (crp). Bcbc addresses historic underinvestment in black-led organizations, combining flexible, trust-based funding with intentional relationship-building to strengthen organizational sustainability and collective impact across king county. In fy25 we supported 14 organizations. Icf supports tribes and native-led nonprofits in king county through participatory grantmaking that partners with native community members to determine grant criteria, evaluate funding requests, and make funding decisions. In fy25 we supported 29 organizations. Our crp project made grants to approximately 80 organizations, prioritizing those with annual budgets of less than $2 million

   $6,480,073 spentof which $6,142,220 as grants
   16% of program spending

4. Access to resources & financial stability: financial stability encompasses uwkc's food security, free tax preparation, and bridge to finish programs. All three of these bodies of work seek to address poverty and increase access to resources. United Way of King County's home grocery delivery program delivered culturally specific food boxes to over 5,000 household weekly. Additionally, the summer meals program served over 15,000 youth in 2025. United way's free tax preparation campaign provided in-person services with more than 500 volunteers preparing tax returns for community members. The program served over 18,200 community members who received more than $17 million in tax returns. Finally, the bridge to finish program served 5,430 post-secondary students ensuring they could access basic needs resources so they can focus on their education and graduate.

   $7,842,322 spentof which $2,886,273 as grants
   20% of program spending

5. Other program: supporting youth achievements: other programs include bridge to finish, helping community college students persist to graduation. Interventions were provided to students, including emergency needs grants, financial counseling, access to food, and more.

   $5,444,724 spentof which $350,025 as grants$260,508 earned by the program
   14% of program spending

6. Bridging the wealth gap:the goal of the bridging the wealth gap program was to support wealth building among asset-limited, income-constrained, employed households in the puget sound. This would be achieved by United Way of King County (uwkc) operating a loan guaranty program that would drive access to capital in order to start or grow small businesses and for homeownership. Furthermore, uwkc would serve as a convener between community development financial institutions (cdfis), community-based organizations (cbos), and individuals and neighborhoods.

   $500,945 spentof which $300,000 as grants
   1% of program spending

7. National service (americorps):the uwkc americorps program placed hosted over 60 members annually who provided both direct service and capacity building. Members served both internally at uwkc and at external community sites with partner organizations. They supported the work of the bridge to finish, food security, housing stability, and education programs. Members played a critical role in increasing community impact through these programs. These programs were ended in late april of 2025 because multiple contracts were cancelled by the federal government across the country. The uwkc contracts were among those impacted.

   $152,772 spent
   0% of program spending

The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,657,804.