Michigan · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC
UNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,287,158 to it, the largest being LA-Z-BOY FOUNDATION ($601,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Heart of West Michigan United Wayshared funderslocal
- United Ways of Iowaportfolio match
- Indiana Association of United Ways Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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: 2018 9% · 2019 10% · 2020 8% · 2021 8% · 2022 8% · 2023 17% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of UNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES 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 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $121k → $146k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $858k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way for Southeastern Michigan); $320k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way of Monroelenawee Counties Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC’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 MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 63% · 2019 52% · 2020 50% · 2021 59% · 2022 43% · 2023 62% — 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
71% of UNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
100% of UNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Heart of West Michigan United Wayshared funderslocalMI · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 175 organizations near you
- United Ways of Iowaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Association of United Ways Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Black Hills Corporation Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of North Carolinaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grinnell Mutual Group Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Ways of Tennesseeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Florida Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John and Melissa Besse Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mosaic Company Foundation for Sustainable Food Systemsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fca Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 23 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding UNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $125k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$125k
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 MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,287,158 to it, the largest being LA-Z-BOY FOUNDATION ($601,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,287,158 in grants to UNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC?
- LA-Z-BOY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $601,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 12funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing