Texas · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY
UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY (Texas) receives grants from 137 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,127,024 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($23,700,052). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $44M
- Funders on record
- 137
- Grants received
- $83M
- Net assets
- $69M
What United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County does
Mission
The mission of United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County (uwsa) is to unite the community to identify and solve our most critical issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community impact- we believe that every man, woman, and child deserve an opportunity for a good life. Since 2006, uwsa has strategically aligned its work and funding around four core impact areas. The four impact areas we provide funding to partners for and a description of grants we receive supporting programs are detailed below. We only apply for grants that align with the strategies in each of our impact areas. As such, not all impact areas have supporting grants currently. We utilize a results based accountability (rba) process to create, define, implement, and report results, indicators, and strategies across all our work and investments.see schedule o for continuation
$38,657,088 spentof which $30,814,382 as grants95% of program spendingCommunity services 2-1-1 texas - information and referral (alamo area information center) grant: a free, confidential health and human services hotline that helps people find local information and resources. 2-1-1 texas - alamo region is one of 24 area information centers in texas operating 24/7/365, with bilingual (spanish) call specialists, and serves bexar and eleven surrounding counties. In 2025, 2-1-1 addressed 147,709 connections. A connection is a phone call, live chat, fax, walk-in or email to contact 211. Top caller needs included utility assistance, food insecurity, and rent assistance.see schedule o for continuation
$1,410,253 spent3% of program spendingCommunity engagement 1) women united (wu): women united is a dynamic membership of women (and men) who support the work of united way to drive positive changes in san antonio and bexar county. Women united provides members with a speaker series, volunteer leadership roles, and signature networking events. In fy25, women united was compromised of more than 2,796 members. This membership group also funds its signature cause, united way child care scholarships, which make quality childcare accessible and affordable for parents completing degrees or job certifications. Proceeds from women united's annual power of the purse luncheon and purse auction directly benefit the scholarship program. In fy25, women united supported 61 families with childcare scholarships, including 102 children enrolled in childcare, and 12 scholars graduated with a degree or job certification.
$693,792 spentof which $914,780 as grants2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $40,761,133.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $46M to $75M (+62%).
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: 2019 11% · 2020 11% · 2021 10% · 2022 10% · 2023 13% · 2024 20% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Mr Christopher Martin
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 58 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $11M.
28 of 137 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 137 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 SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% 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
79% 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 SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 16% · 2019 30% · 2020 50% · 2021 73% · 2022 50% · 2023 30% — growing more concentrated.
“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
52% of UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
71% of UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR 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 $24M that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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 SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY receives grants from 137 organizations whose IRS filings report $83M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.8M on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$5.8M
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 SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County Endowment and Legacy Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR 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 SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY (Texas) receives grants from 137 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,127,024 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($23,700,052). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 137 organizations giving $83,127,024 in grants to UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY, 84 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,700,052 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 137 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