Michigan · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY
UNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $708,372 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($231,623). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $814k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $708k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What United Way of St Clair County does
Mission
The mission of the united way of saint clair county is to mobilize the community of st. Clair county, to raise the funds, and/or resources necessary to meet identified human service needs with the highest level of accountability and community involvement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community impact services - united way of st. Clair county provides resources to allow for the development, & growth of local human service programs and projects to address identified and emerging community needs. To accomplish this, resources are solicited county-wide in an organized annual giving campaign and then allocated through a grant process to various human service organizations. These grants are monitored throughout the year to ensure accountability to the contributors and recipients of services. Both the annual giving campaign and the grants allocation and monitoring processes are done by volunteers with the support of a small staff. Programmatic funding is overseen by the citizens review committee and board of directors and administered by the executive director with staff assistance.
$566,325 spentof which $452,319 as grants76% of program spendingDirect services to people - united way of st. Clair county provides direct services to residents through donor designated funds to address specific issues: information and referral services, vaccine awareness, ramp construction, childcare, dental and direct assistance payments to vendors for rent, medications, treatment costs, transportation, or other basic needs. Funds are available to disabled, homeless, indigent, and low-income st. Clair county residents after all other funding resources are exhausted. Additionally, the organization maintains a medical loan closet, which provides durable and disposable medical equipment to st. Clair county residents. The direct services are administered by the executive director and assistance from staff.
$158,414 spentof which $89,977 as grants21% of program spending211 northeast michigan program - provides residents of st. Clair county an easy-to-remember phone number and provides information and connects callers with appropriate agencies and services to meet their human service needs. Data gathered by 211 through this program assists in accessing ongoing needs in our community.
$24,255 spentof which $24,172 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $748,994.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.4M to $3.2M (−5%).
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 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of UNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR 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. 6 of the last 8 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
Brent Gillette
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $46k → $132k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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: $958k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 ST CLAIR COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 ST CLAIR COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 73% · 2019 85% · 2020 41% · 2021 57% · 2022 68% · 2023 33% — 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
58% of UNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
51% of UNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR 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 $351k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $358k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 ST CLAIR COUNTY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 ST CLAIR 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 ST CLAIR COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $708,372 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($231,623). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $708,372 in grants to UNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $231,623 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 19 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