Washington · Nonprofit
United Way of Skagit County
United Way of Skagit County (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,106,013 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($370,679). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $553k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $450k
What United Way of Skagit County does
Mission
United Way of Skagit County's mission is to build a positive and sustainable quality of life for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Diaper Bank - In July 2021, United Way of Skagit County launched our Diaper Bank to address a hidden crisis affecting rural families: diaper need. When parents cannot afford diapers, they face impossible choicesstretching soiled diapers longer than safe, missing work or school to stay home with children, or going without other essentials.Our Diaper Bank operates as critical infrastructure for family stability, just like food banks address hunger. Through our network of community partners, we ensure that geographic isolation and limited transportation (common barriers in rural areas) don't prevent families from accessing this basic necessity. Our two-generation approach recognizes that when children have their fundamental needs met, parents can focus on building economic security through education and employment.Impact: In 2024-2025, we distributed 314,108 diapers and 3,615 wipes, directly supporting rural families during their most vulnerable moments and creating pathways to long-term stability.
$234,566 spentof which $67,194 as grants64% of program spendingDolly Parton Imagination Library - Rural children often start kindergarten behind their urban peers due to limited access to quality early childhood resources. The Dolly Parton's Imagination Library directly addresses this disparity by delivering high-quality, age-appropriate books directly to children's homes each month from birth to age five.This program is particularly vital for rural families who may live far from libraries or bookstores. By mailing books directly to enrolled children, we eliminate transportation barriers while creating excitement around reading and learning. Each delivery strengthens the parent-child bond through shared reading experiences and builds the foundation for lifelong learning success.Impact: In 2024-2025, we served 1,880 children throughout Skagit County's rural communities, ensuring that zip code doesn't determine a child's access to early literacy opportunities.
$70,442 spentof which $50,860 as grants19% of program spendingFinancial People Project - Rural families face unique financial challenges: seasonal employment, limited banking access, and fewer credit-building opportunities. Our Financial People Project addresses these barriers head-on by providing accessible, culturally relevant financial education that meets people where they are.We transformed our program delivery in 2024-2025, moving to an online Canvas platform with materials available in English and Spanish. This innovation eliminates transportation barriers that often prevent rural residents from accessing in-person financial education. Using the proven FDIC Money Smart curriculum, participants master essential skills including budgeting with irregular income, navigating limited banking options, building credit in underserved markets, and creating emergency savings despite economic uncertainty.Impact: Our flexible, multilingual approach ensures that geographic isolation doesn't limit financial opportunity, empowering rural residents to build household wealth and economic security.
$14,183 spent4% of program spendingHealth and Income Collaborative Initiatives - Rural communities thrive when organizations work together to address interconnected challenges. United Way of Skagit County leverages collaborative approaches to maximize impact across health and economic security initiatives.Through our advisory role with the Population Health Trust, we help coordinate county-wide efforts to improve quality of life, ensuring rural voices are centered in health policy decisions. Our support of Youth United creates leadership pathways for rural high school students, with participants completing over 100 volunteer hours each to earn varsity recognitiontransforming community service into a celebrated achievement equal to athletic success.We also maintain critical community data infrastructure through our partnership on the Skagit County indicators website, ensuring that nonprofits, schools, and public agencies serving rural areas have access to the data needed to make informed decisions and secure resources.Impact: These collaborative investments strengthen the entire ecosystem supporting rural families, creating sustainable pathways to wellness and prosperity that individual organizations couldn't…
$48,182 spentof which $10,500 as grants13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $367,373.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.7M to $1.4M (−17%).
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: 2022 14% · 2023 42% · 2024 25% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of United Way of Skagit County’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. 9 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
Andrew Miller
Executive Director
Board chair
Kaaren Flint
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $194k → $49k.
9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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: $15k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Ways of the Pacific Northwest). These are real filings, and they are not money United Way of Skagit County raised.
From the IRS filings of United Way of Skagit County’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 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 Skagit County leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% 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
46% 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 Skagit County.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 52% · 2019 38% · 2020 34% · 2021 21% · 2022 21% · 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
50% of United Way of Skagit County's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% 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 Skagit County draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $378k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 Skagit County's revenue fell 55% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like United Way of Skagit 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for United Way of Skagit 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 Skagit County?
- United Way of Skagit County (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,106,013 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($370,679). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does United Way of Skagit County have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,106,013 in grants to United Way of Skagit County, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of United Way of Skagit County?
- SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $370,679 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like United Way of Skagit County find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 21 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