Arizona · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC (Arizona) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,302,055 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($570,059). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What United Way of Northern Arizona Inc does
Mission
Improving lives by mobilizing communities to create lasting changes in community conditions. We believe in the power and potential of successful, resilient youth to create thriving communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Uwna concentrates its efforts on the following community-inspired focus areas, essential to achieving positive social change and sustainable impact for our youth and community: early childhood development, positive youth development/youth opportunity, healthy communities, financial stability/meeting basic needs and crisis response. Through collaboration with partners, we combine resources and leverage our talents to drive broader social and systemic change. Collectively, we make a greater impact on creating an educated and thriving community.the community investment fund is allocated through a rigorous application process reviewed by volunteers. Site visits are also conducted of funded programs. Based on this exhaustive assessment, recommendations for funding are submitted to the uwna finance committee for review and decisions on final allocation of the community investment fund is made by the uwna board of directors.
$1,568,551 spentof which $1,222,861 as grants$1,568,551 earned by the program84% of program spendingDonor designations: united way of northern arizona honors donor requested designations to various verified not for profit 501(c)3 agencies as a courtesy to donors. Schedule I reports these amounts as well as the united way funds.
$304,653 spentof which $304,653 as grants$304,653 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,873,204.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.8M to $2.4M (+37%).
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 18% · 2019 18% · 2020 28% · 2021 12% · 2022 18% · 2023 17% · 2024 22% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA 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. 2 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Armando Ruiz
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $246k → $72k.
13 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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 NORTHERN ARIZONA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
75% 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 NORTHERN ARIZONA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 57% · 2019 64% · 2020 26% · 2021 29% · 2022 53% · 2023 36% — 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
57% of UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
54% of UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA 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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 NORTHERN ARIZONA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA 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 NORTHERN ARIZONA INC?
- UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC (Arizona) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,302,055 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($570,059). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,302,055 in grants to UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC?
- ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $570,059 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 32 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