West Virginia · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,999,042 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($932,175). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $563k
What United Way of Southern Wv Inc does
Mission
We improve lives in southern west virginia by focusing on the building blocks for a good quality of life: health, education and financial stability. We work every day to mobilize the caring power of the people and organizations that have the passion, expertise and resources needed to make change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
United way makes allocation/ support payments to a variety of non profit agencies in raleigh, nicholas, summers, wyoming, fayette, mcdowell, and mercer counties in southern west virginia. It also provides direct assistant to individuals through its internally managed literally program, 2-1-1 social services and information hotline, feeding initiative, pregnancy education, and equal footing shoe program. During the 2016 year, the organization entered into certain fiscal sponsorship arrangements with non incorporated entiies which were established in order to proivde elements of relief to certain flood revaged areas, specifically fayette and nicholas counties in southern and central west virginia.
$847,519 spentof which $349,950 as grants$469,113 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $847,519.
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 2019 to 2020, from $322k to $618k (+92%).
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.
49% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Rachel Cornett
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $196k → $126k.
11 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 SOUTHERN WV INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 SOUTHERN WV INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 SOUTHERN WV INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 61% · 2019 25% · 2020 87% · 2021 53% · 2022 33% · 2023 28% — 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
33% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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 SOUTHERN WV INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside West Virginia, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $414k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 SOUTHERN WV INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV 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 West Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,999,042 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($932,175). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,999,042 in grants to UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC?
- Enterprise Holdings Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $932,175 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 35 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