Massachusetts · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC
UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,900,815 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,924,140). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year. UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programUNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$20M
Recipients
144
Contributions on record
$15M
Donors on record
43
Payments out are 1.31x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
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.
- The Health Foundation of Central Massachshared funderslocal
- United Way of New York Stateportfolio match
- DCU for Kidsshared funders
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $255k → $1.8M.
9 of 41 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: $5.6M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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.
Where its funders are
96% of UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M 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.
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 41 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Health Foundation of Central Massachshared funderslocalMA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · funds 75 organizations near you
- United Way of New York Stateportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- DCU for Kidsshared fundersMA · backs 70 organizations that share your funders
- Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The United Way of Greater Waterbury Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Tri County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Association of United Ways Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of North Carolinaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Ways of Tennesseeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fred Harris Daniels Foundationshared funderslocalMA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 91 organizations near you
- Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundationshared funderslocalMA · backs 52 organizations that share your funders · funds 74 organizations near you
- Fallon Community Health Plan Incshared funderslocalMA · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 76 organizations near you
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Non-Profit Center of North Central Massachusetts Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS 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 NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC?
- UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,900,815 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,924,140). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year. UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $9,900,815 in grants to UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,924,140 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 41funders 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing