South Carolina · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY
UNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY (South Carolina) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,390,444 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($602,200). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What United Way of Pickens County does
Mission
The mission of the United Way of Pickens County is to optimize the organized capacity of people to care for another with the vision to lead pickens county in creating and developing talents and resources to enhance the quality of life for individuals, families and the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community impact program - community impact was developed and implemented in 2008 as a way to identify local issues of concern, set specific community goals and to create long-term positive changes in the lives of the residents. This program involves agency support, program review and investment, community collaboration, community investment , education, information and referral, and emergency food and shelter.
$1,393,936 spent97% of program spendingVolunteerism program - volunteerism is an effective way to interject public participation into the organizations operations and decision making process. Volunteerism also provides individuals and businesses in the community training in the areas of providing for community needs and in advocating the causes of the provider organizations.
$23,596 spent2% of program spending211 call program - the pickens county 2-1-1 call program provides value in connecting people to local non-profit, faith-based organizations and public services quickly, easily and confidentially for the purpose of either receiving or giving help in meeting human service needs or in the aftermath of disaster. The service is available at no cost to callers.
$20,299 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,437,831.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.8M to $2.5M (+36%).
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: 2021 13% · 2023 3% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Julie Capaldi
Executive director
Board chair
Lucas Durham
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $162k → $359k.
10 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 PICKENS COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 PICKENS COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
71% 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 PICKENS COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 65% · 2019 42% · 2020 31% · 2021 26% · 2022 70% · 2023 21% — 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 PICKENS COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 84% 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
81% of UNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $557k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding UNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $351k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$351k
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 PICKENS 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 PICKENS COUNTY: 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 PICKENS COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY (South Carolina) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,390,444 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($602,200). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $3,390,444 in grants to UNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $602,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 37 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