Wisconsin · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC
UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,643,816 to it, the largest being SENTRY INSURANCE FOUNDATION INC ($2,705,097). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $8.4M
What United Way of Portage County Inc does
Mission
The united way of portage county brings people and resources together to achieve measurable results that improve people's lives and strengthen our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community impact programs: united way of portage county will focus on three key areas of community impact: education, financial stability and health. The united way vision of these focus areas include: education - from prenatal through young adulthood, (cradle to career), education provides the basis for individual development, advances an inclusive and culturally diverse mindset, supports transition to family-sustaining employment, and builds a strong community. Financial stability - financial security and capability is vital to supporting individual and family life, maintaining employment, achieving career aspirations, and building assets for the future. Health - good mental and physical health is fundamental to an individual's capacity to enjoy their lives, provide for their families, contribute to society, and realize their dreams. A healthy community is built upon a foundation of health equity that fosters safe, stable, and nurturing relationships for all community members. In order to fulfill these visions, united way of portage county supports 28 local nonprofit organization programs and initiatives, including its own learn for life program. A collaboration between united…
$2,840,561 spentof which $2,509,066 as grants$433 earned by the program93% of program spendingVolunteer center: united way of portage county's volunteer center matches people to volunteer opportunities, providing more than $50,000 worth of volunteer service. Through its volunteersrock.org website, the volunteer center connected people to hundreds of local volunteer opportunities, including those with project fresh start and make a difference day. Research shows that when more people volunteer, the benefits and impact on the community are measureable. In 2025, the volunteer center continues to offer strategic volunteer opportunities at area employer businesses. The volunteer center works with local businesses to help them promote employees using their volunteer time off.
$105,697 spent3% of program spendingLearn for life: in this program, united ways matches trained volunteer tutors with third grade students in need of help with their reading skills. They work together on the student's reading proficiency for a minimum of 30 minutes per week during the school year. The program is in place in nearly all portage county schools. During the summer school session in the stevens point school district, students going into third grade and students going into fourth grade who need help with their reading proficiency are served in the program for the duration of the six week summer school session. The program puts united way one step closer to its goal of helping children succeed.
$83,845 spent3% of program spending2-1-1 program: by providing one central easy-to-remember phone number (2-1-1), united way's 2-1-1 program connects individuals with the most appropriate community-based health and human service resources for their specific situations. These individuals are often unaware of these programs, so by asking questions that arise in everyday situations or during hard times, they can become connected to any of the more than 600 programs listedin the portage county 2-1-1 directory. Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, this free and confidential service is available to all portage county residents. In addition, the service helps reduce misdirected calls to other organizations such as health and human services, police department, library, and city hall. By reducing non-crisis calls to police dispatch, 2-1-1 helps reserve these resources for emergency calls.
$10,931 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,041,034.
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 $6.8M to $8.4M (+24%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 3% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 6% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Fred Hebbiewhite
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $317k → $1.0M.
12 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $641k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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 PORTAGE COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 PORTAGE COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 86% · 2019 86% · 2020 49% · 2021 48% · 2022 55% · 2023 46% — 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
50% of UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
96% of UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $648k 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.
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 PORTAGE 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 PORTAGE COUNTY INC?
- UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,643,816 to it, the largest being SENTRY INSURANCE FOUNDATION INC ($2,705,097). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $6,643,816 in grants to UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC?
- SENTRY INSURANCE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,705,097 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 43 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