New Jersey · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC
UNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,198,583 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ($227,135). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $691k
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What United Way of Passaic County Inc does
Mission
United way of passaic county improves the lives of people in passaic county by mobilizing the caring power of our community. We accomplish this by mobilizing caring individuals and corporations to give, advocate, and volunteer for our cause in passaic county.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community impact: uwpc addresses community needs in passaic county, new jersey, through programs that advance youth opportunity, financial stability, healthy communities, and community resilience. Youth opportunity programs promote early literacy, academic success, and post-secondary access through tutoring, book distribution, and scholarships. Financial stability programs provide free income tax preparation, benefits access, and financial education to help households increase financial security. Uwpc convenes the passaic county food policy council to expand access to nutritious food, snap/wic benefits, school meals, and food resources. Community resilience programs provide school supplies, holiday assistance, and nonprofit coordination to help families and communities meet urgent needs and prepare for crises.
$294,070 spent52% of program spendingVolunteer management and information and referral: uwpc mobilizes the caring power of the community by inspiring and connecting caring individuals to volunteer within our community impact work. Volunteers assist with collecting and distributing donated items to individuals in need, including holiday toys and gifts, food, backpacks and school supplies, and clothing.
$266,526 spent48% of program spendingFinancial stability - uwpc strengthens financial security through free tax preparation, benefits access, and financial education. The vita program helps households claim credits and increase income. In 2025, uwpc served 2,000 households, securing 2.5m in refunds and generating 3.7m in economic impact with support from 75 volunteers.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $560,596.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $1.5M (−19%).
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 18% · 2022 62% · 2023 36% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of UNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Mary Celis
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $69k → $92k.
5 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 PASSAIC COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 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 PASSAIC COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
65% 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 PASSAIC COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 66% · 2019 59% · 2020 37% · 2021 32% · 2022 37% · 2023 37% — 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
28% of UNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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 PASSAIC COUNTY INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $415k 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 PASSAIC COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding UNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $812k on record.
- GRANT IN AID$424k
- FEDERAL$388k
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 PASSAIC COUNTY 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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 PASSAIC COUNTY 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 PASSAIC COUNTY INC?
- UNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,198,583 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ($227,135). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,198,583 in grants to UNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC?
- UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE is the largest funder on record, with $227,135 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 30 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