Wisconsin · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC
UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,241,518 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $8.4M
What United Way of Racine County Inc does
Mission
Mobilizing the caring power of racine county to improve lives and transform our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community investment/allocations: united way of racinhe county is committed to investing funds in the local community. United way of racine county staff and investment committee volunteers work hard throughout the year to make sure that united way of racine county's investment strategies are focused in the areas of healthy communty, youth opportunities, financial securty and community resiliency. We fund programs that prepare children and youth to achieve their potential through education; prepare individuals and families to become financially stable and independent; and help individuals achieve maximum physical, emotional, and mental health and safety outcomes. These efforts allow racine county residents to gain knowledge and skills that will empower them to achieve their full potential.
$2,606,782 spentof which $2,606,782 as grants$98,467 earned by the program64% of program spendingFull-service community schools: the federal full-service community schools (fscs) grant supports uwrc's lift (link and inspire for tomorrow) community school work at knapp and julian thomas. Lift community schools employ integrated student supports, expanded learning time and opportunities, family and community engagement, and collaborative leadership and practices to improve outcomes for the students and families in the school neighborhood. Knapp became a community school in the 2016-17 school year; julian thomas in the 2019-20 school year. The fscs grant will support this work during the grant period of october 2020-september 2025.
$435,693 spent11% of program spendingCommunity impact: united way transforms the community by initiating and facilitating systems-wide projects around education, financial stability and health, such as schools of hope, imagination library, vita and lift to help fill gaps in support services. In addition, united way is responsible for sharing community statistics related to asset limited income contrained and employed (alice) families. United way also engages in the community in community conversations to learn the aspirations, hopes and concerns of community members.
$341,100 spent8% of program spendingLink and inspire for tomorrow: lift is a place-based strategy that creates partnerships between neighborhoods and resources. Lift is based on the community school model found in 5,000 communities across the nation, and it has an integrated focus on academics, health and social services, community engagement, and development.
$268,343 spent7% of program spendingImagination library: this is a program to provide books to children from birth to age five.
$167,762 spent4% of program spendingVolunteer income tax assistance: vita is a national program staffed by local volunteers to provide free preparation and electronic filing of tax returns.
$100,774 spent2% of program spendingUnited horizons: united horizons board training program helps to prepare community members to serve on nonprofit boards. The program is available to racine county residents and free to all participants.
$64,015 spent2% of program spendingEmployee of record: uwrc partnered with racine county to become its employee of record for a literacy coordinator position, furthering uwrc's focus on early literacy.
$60,626 spent1% of program spendingSchools of hope: this program is in partnership with racine unified school district using volunteer tutors to address early grade reading proficiency.
$53,088 spent1% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,098,183.
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 2020 to 2021, from $8.3M to $13M (+56%).
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% · 2020 5% · 2021 5% · 2022 12% · 2023 29% · 2024 24% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Alexa Haigh
Secretary, president & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $869k → $1.1M.
12 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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: $4.3M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way of Racine County Inc); $292k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Racine Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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 RACINE COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 RACINE COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 49% · 2019 57% · 2020 60% · 2021 82% · 2022 22% · 2023 22% — 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 RACINE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 RACINE COUNTY INC's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 22 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC
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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
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF RACINE 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 RACINE COUNTY INC?
- UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,241,518 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $14,241,518 in grants to UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF RACINE 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 45 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