Nevada · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA (Nevada) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,723,847 to it, the largest being NEVADA VOLUNTEERS ($927,704). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What United Way of Northern Nevada and the Sierra does
Mission
United Way of Northern Nevada and the Sierra's mission is to unite communities to improve lives. Uwnns's vision is to create opportunities for children, families, and individuals to realize their full potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education and literacy services includes the nevada ready state pre-k program, which provides 3 to 4-year-old children with a high-quality early education to children who otherwise would not have access to it. In addition, the united readers program, provides foundational literacy skills through mentoring with specially trained americorps members focusing on phonemic awareness. Finally, uwnns serves as the facilitator for the northern nevada reading coalition, which collaborates with local literacy- focused organizations to support grade-level reading by the end of third grade including programs like dolly parton's imagination library.
$3,834,498 spentof which $2,367,478 as grants67% of program spendingCommunity safety net services includes critical services such as the emergency food and shelter program (efsp), which collaborates with local community organizations to ensure families and individuals have their basic needs met. In addition, the safe program provides energy assistance to households who have confirmed financial need to catch up on their energy bills. Finally the ride united program which assists clients with critical transportation and delivers life-sustaining supplies to their homes.
$1,579,971 spentof which $708,758 as grants27% of program spendingThrough our company workplace campaigns donors are given the opportunity to designate their gifts to certified 501(c)3 charities, allowing them the ability to give back to their community in a meaningful way that works for each of them.
$349,033 spentof which $349,033 as grants6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,763,502.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $3.7M (+206%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 22% · 2021 16% · 2022 42% · 2023 80% · 2024 77% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Blake Pang
CEO and pres
Board chair
Col Mary Devine
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $100k → $257k.
13 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 NEVADA AND THE SIERRA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 NEVADA AND THE SIERRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 NEVADA AND THE SIERRA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 94% · 2019 36% · 2020 29% · 2021 26% · 2022 38% · 2023 70% — 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
36% of UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
93% of UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $730k 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.
Against its field
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA has grown faster than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 NEVADA AND THE SIERRA: 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 NEVADA AND THE SIERRA?
- UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA (Nevada) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,723,847 to it, the largest being NEVADA VOLUNTEERS ($927,704). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,723,847 in grants to UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA?
- NEVADA VOLUNTEERS is the largest funder on record, with $927,704 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 38 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