Mississippi · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY
UNITED WAY OF OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY (Mississippi) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,902 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,527). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $348k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $331k
- Net assets
- $194k
What United Way of Oxford & Lafayette County does
Mission
The organization's mission is to improve lives in lafayette county by uniting people and resources, with a focus on good health, quality education, and financial stability. The organization achieves this mission by raising money through an annual campaign and other avenues, and then providing program grants to other non-profit organizations, convening issue-driven coalitions, and serving as a resource to individuals and organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Using funds raised through the annual campaign, the organization was able to provide program grants to more than twenty local non-profit organizations involved in promoting good health, quality education, and financial stability in lafayette county. These program grants supported a wide range of efforts, including but not limited to support for adolescent mothers, special olympics opportunities for disabled athletes, counseling for victims of crime, after- and summer-school programs for young children, enrichment and mentoring activities for children and youth, basic needs assistance in the form of rent and utilities payments, meals on wheels services for seniors, and a transitional program for families moving out of homelessness. Tens of thousands of residents of lafayette county benefited from this work.
$254,361 spentof which $167,800 as grants99% of program spendingUsing funds raised through the annual campaign, designated gifts and sponsorships, and non-cash gifts the organization funded the lou excel by 5 coalition, which is a community coalition working to ensure that all children in lafayette county enter kindergarten prepared to succeed in school and in life. The lou reads coalition is a community coalition, and united way serves as its lead partner and fiscal agent. The lou reads coalition supports parents by providing resources and workshops, offers free professional development opportunities to local early childhood caregivers, co-sponsors a family resource library (free "toy lending library" open to the community), and coordinates family- friendly events for young children and their families.
$2,489 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $256,850.
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 2017 to 2018, from $596k to $412k (−31%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of UNITED WAY OF OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $72k → $16k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY’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 OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 52% · 2019 52% · 2020 44% · 2021 53% · 2022 78% · 2023 62% — 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
30% of UNITED WAY OF OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
70% of UNITED WAY OF OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY'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 $99k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Mississippi, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $231k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY is better cushioned than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY
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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY (Mississippi) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,902 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,527). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $330,902 in grants to UNITED WAY OF OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,527 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF OXFORD & LAFAYETTE COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 15 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