Oklahoma · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC
UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,527 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($233,849). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $344k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What United Way of North Central Oklahoma Inc does
Mission
The mission of the United Way of North Central Oklahoma is to improve lives with the caring power of community by: Strengthening the community through compassionate collaboration, involvement and volunteerism; Embracing educational opportunities in a changing environment; and Serving as generous stewards of community resources with high ethics, transparency and integrity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization was created to improve people's lives by mobilizing the caring power of the communities. The organization invest resources to address the most important needs of our communities by partnering with agencies that provide programs that meet the organization's goals in the following community impact agreas: education, financial stability and health and safety. The organization received direct contributions, grants, and conduct an annual campaign to generate resources for the community. The annual allocations were distributed to various partner agencies.
$502,804 spentof which $390,514 as grants70% of program spendingThe organization sponsors the retired senior volunteer program, which recruits and places senior volunteers among community organizations throughout the ponca city and kay county area.
$211,654 spent30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $714,458.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.0M to $2.3M (+15%).
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 14% · 2018 13% · 2019 9% · 2020 11% · 2022 16% · 2023 6% · 2024 8% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA 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. 1 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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $28k → $50k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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: $21k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Health Foundation of Kay County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA 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 NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2021 73% · 2022 96% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $339k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $613k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$523k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$90k
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 NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA 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 NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC?
- UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,527 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($233,849). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $343,527 in grants to UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $233,849 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 5 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing