Texas · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC (Texas) receives grants from 179 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,206,677 to it, the largest being TEXAS INSTRUMENTS FOUNDATION ($8,932,792). 115 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $52M
- Funders on record
- 179
- Grants received
- $75M
- Net assets
- $48M
What United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc does
Mission
Uwmd is a community-based social change organization that unites the community to create lasting change. For 100 years, we've brought together passionate change-makers, alongside corporate, civic and nonprofit partners, to strengthen access (continued in schedule o) to education, income and health, the building blocks of opportunity across north texas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We collaborated with a broad spectrum of community partners to develop our aspire 2030 goals: our north star for driving transformational change in education, income and health across north texas through the year 2030. In education, we seek to increase by 50% the number of north texas students reading on grade level by third grade. In income, we seek to increase by 20% the number of north texas young adults who earn a living wage. In health, we seek to increase to 96% the number of north texans with access to affordable healthcare insurance. (continued in schedule o)in fiscal year 2024-25, uwmd created positive impact for more than 1.7 million north texans and invested in 144 exceptional education, income and health organizations through our community impact grants. Education698,000 students laid the groundwork for continued educational success.income571,000 north texans received assistance to get and keep better jobs and build savings for the future. Health473,000 neighbors gained access to the health and wellness resources they need to live longer, healthier lives.
$19,057,195 spentof which $15,182,521 as grants48% of program spendingUwmd builds, leads and supports collaborative programs and initiatives that ensure more students graduate ready to succeed, more workers become financially stable and more families live longer, healthier lives. Examples include:1. The southern dallas thrives initiative, created in partnership with pepsico foundation and frito-lay north america, is a set of programs that invests in the communities of southern dallas and expands access to early education, nutrition, college and career readiness, and workforce development.(continued in schedule o) resource rooms at southern dallas high schools provide a central location for more than 3,650 students, parents, teachers and other community members to access technology, books, health resources and more.southern dallas thrives invests in childcare centers to improve the quality of early education and ensure kids thrive from a young age. In fiscal year 2024-25, the initiative provided 86,625 hours of childcare service to 183 southern dallas families.we also deploy creative solutions to support families dealing with food insecurity. In fiscal year 2024-25, we provided 25,409 southern dallas households with food resources and basic…
$16,600,293 spentof which $9,577,340 as grants42% of program spendingDistributing donor-designated contributions to nonprofit organizations:uwmd enables donors to designate their gifts to other united ways or to specific agencies. In fiscal year 2024-25, uwmd processed $3,987,490 in designations.
$3,987,490 spentof which $3,987,490 as grants$158,595 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,644,978.
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 $44M to $59M (+34%).
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 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 7% · 2021 29% · 2022 44% · 2023 18% · 2024 18% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 72 funders, grant income rose $3.4M → $9.0M.
25 of 179 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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: $52M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc); $33M from 36 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 179 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 METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 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 METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 33% · 2019 38% · 2020 43% · 2021 24% · 2022 25% · 2023 12% — 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
47% of UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
66% of UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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 METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC's funding base is broadening — from 37 funders to 72 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.6M
- Department of the Treasury$1.9M
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 METROPOLITAN DALLAS 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS 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 METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC?
- UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC (Texas) receives grants from 179 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,206,677 to it, the largest being TEXAS INSTRUMENTS FOUNDATION ($8,932,792). 115 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 179 organizations giving $75,206,677 in grants to UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC, 115 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC?
- TEXAS INSTRUMENTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,932,792 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 179 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