New York · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY
UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY (New York) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,766,011 to it, the largest being QUEST DIAGNOSTICS FOUNDATION INC ($7,427,719). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $86M
- Funders on record
- 125
- Grants received
- $48M
- Net assets
- $13M
What United Way of New York City does
Mission
Uwnyc works with a coalition of trusted partners to unite community power with citywide possibility. Together, we meet today's most urgent needs while building transformative solutions for tomorrow - striving for health, opportunity, and prosperity for every new yorker in every neighborhood.uwnyc serves approximately 1 million new york city residents struggling to make ends meet, as well as the agencies, organizations, partners, and institutions that serve them. We sit at the nexus of the corporate, government, and non-profit sectors, working closely with more than 300 corporations, 600 nonprofit organizations, city, state and federal agencies, 20,000 individual donors and volunteers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Justice & opportunitypartnering with government and trusted community partners to build sustainable community safety. Through atlas, a signature innovation in justice reform designed in partnership with the new york city mayor's office of neighborhood safety, building networks of support for justice-involved young people through evidence-based therapeutic support, civic engagement, and mentorship.
$33,485,591 spentof which $29,719,650 as grants44% of program spendingFood and benefits access building the capacity of the emergency food system across new york city and ensuring people have access to emergency food and public benefits. Through the hunger prevention and nutrition assistance program (hpnap), providing over 600 community-based organizations throughout the five boroughs of nyc with high quality, culturally appropriate foods, nutrition education, and technical assistance. Providing operational support grants and capital equipment grants to emergency food providers to cover costs such as rent, utilities, and staff as well as purchases of refrigerators, freezers, and other equipment to ensure funded programs can successfully and safely store and distribute food. Through food support connections (fsc), supporting low-income individuals and families enroll in supplemental nutritional assistance program (snap) benefits, formerly known as food stamps. Uwnyc funds community-based organizations across the five boroughs to provide screening, application, and enrollment assistance services for the hardest to reach individuals and families.
$20,368,243 spentof which $16,974,620 as grants27% of program spendingHealth equitybolstering the provision of culturally competent health care services and policies in new york city and beyond to mitigate health disparities. Through choose healthy life and connect2care, training trusted messengers in underserved communities to disseminate up-to-date public health information and promote connections to care.
$11,620,986 spentof which $8,312,873 as grants15% of program spendingEducation equitysupporting children, families, educators, and communities to foster equitable access to educational opportunities.through readnyc, aligning resources and wraparound supports to increase 3rd grade reading proficiency particularly for children of color. Through mott haven parent collective, supporting both literacy and financial empowerment in the bronx. Through a cross-sector coalition working in partnership with new york city schools, driving the development and implementation of a first-of-its kind interdisciplinary black studies curriculum for all nyc students (pre-k 12) .
$2,609,949 spentof which $1,298,959 as grants3% of program spendingOther
$7,853,490 spentof which $5,708,382 as grants$413,581 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $75,938,259.
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 2023 to 2024, from $52M to $73M (+42%).
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 43% · 2018 46% · 2019 49% · 2020 45% · 2021 52% · 2022 53% · 2023 66% · 2024 80% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY’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. 5 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.
Chief executive
Grace Bonilla
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $8.4M.
27 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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: $3.2M from 19 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 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 NEW YORK CITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
61% 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 NEW YORK CITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 26% · 2019 37% · 2020 48% · 2021 27% · 2022 39% · 2023 36% — growing more concentrated.
“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
41% of UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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 NEW YORK CITY's funding base is broadening — from 21 funders to 45 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.9M
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 NEW YORK CITY
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 18 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY: 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 NEW YORK CITY?
- UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY (New York) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,766,011 to it, the largest being QUEST DIAGNOSTICS FOUNDATION INC ($7,427,719). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY have?
- IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $47,766,011 in grants to UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY?
- QUEST DIAGNOSTICS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,427,719 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 125 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