Wisconsin · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC
UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,497,267 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($616,153). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What United Way of Marathon County Inc does
Mission
Unite people and organizations in Marathon County to build a stronger community and strategically invest in promoting financial stability to improve lives now and into the future. Focusing on the ALICE population and lifting individuals and families out of financial instability.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
United Way of Marathon County engages people in giving back to their community. By bringing together people with passion, expertise and resources, United Way of Marathon County is able to achieve far greater results than any one group or organization working alone. With input from community experts and volunteers, focused goals have been set in the areas of education, income and health, the building blocks for a good quality of life. United Way of Marathon County is advancing this agenda by working with our community partners to develop action plans that will create the desired change. Examples of the goals we want to achieve include improving kindergarten readiness, reducing relationship violence and reducing hunger and homelessness. By focusing on key issues and leveraging partnerships and resources, we can effectively and efficiently get results.
$2,523,294 spentof which $1,628,350 as grants90% of program spendingUnited Way's 211 is an information and referral service that is here to help answer questions and connect you to services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: by phone, through publications, via the online searchable database, text, chat or by email. 2-1-1 provides information regarding support groups, family counseling, services for an aging parent, financial assistance, volunteer opportunities, other community services and groups and much more. The information and referrals that they provide are free, confidential and personalized.
$288,805 spent10% of program spendingAdditional United Way affiliate programs are: Women United, Emerging Leaders, Hunger Coalition, Early Years, Retire United, Housing and Homeless Coalition and the Volunteer Connection. More information regarding these programs is available on our website, www.unitedwaymc.org.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,812,099.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.8M to $5.5M (+14%).
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 5% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 10% · 2021 12% · 2022 6% · 2023 4% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Jeffrey Sargent
Executive Director
Board chair
Amy Janke
Corporate Giving Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $274k → $327k.
8 of 48 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: $2.3M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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 MARATHON COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
53% 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 MARATHON COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 18% · 2019 18% · 2020 35% · 2021 26% · 2022 35% · 2023 31% — 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
58% of UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
97% of UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $758k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 MARATHON COUNTY INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $446k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$446k
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 MARATHON COUNTY 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 MARATHON COUNTY INC: 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 MARATHON COUNTY INC?
- UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,497,267 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($616,153). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $2,497,267 in grants to UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $616,153 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 48 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