Indiana · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC
UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,578,172 to it, the largest being INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC ($3,515,381). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $12M
What United Way of St Joseph County Inc does
Mission
United way of st. Joseph countys mission is to mobilize the community to collectively reduce poverty by moving people from a life of poverty to possibility. In order to surround the communitys most critical problem and fight it, we bring non-profits together. We know that change doesnt happen alone so we create change by bringing the right people to the table and offering a whole-community solution. Together, we are stronger.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
United way of st. Joseph county supports vulnerable individuals and families though community impact initiatives and strategic investments that strengthen health, education, economic mobility, and safety net services. In partnership with more than 25 nonprofit organizations, we expand access to critical resources that allow residents to live safer, healthier, and more stable lives. We secure, leverage, and direct funding to meet immediate basic needs and prevent families from falling into crisis, including early learning support, food access, and housing and utility assistance. A significant focus is placed on households below financial stability and alice (asset limited, income contrained, employed)individuals who are working but cannot afford basic needs. These efforts strengthen the local safety net and improve coordination across the community's support system.
$1,148,947 spentof which $350,000 as grants$246,048 earned by the program66% of program spendingCommunications impact - oversees the distribution of information for not- for-profit partners, donors, volunteers, corporate partners and the general public. Communications impact also oversees all event coordination and planning, ensuring community engagement at every level.
$40,631 spent2% of program spendingOneroof st. Joe county - a series of facilities designed to house a multitude of critical human services under one roof within a neighborhood that is highly susceptible to socioeconomic challenges, the current centers are designed to host mental healthcare, childcare, family services, senior services, wic, and programs designed to improve parent interaction with children in a learning setting. We cureently have one fully functioning in the southeast neighborhood and others are still in developnment.
$547,348 spent32% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,736,926.
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 2022 to 2023, from $9.9M to $15M (+47%).
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 6% · 2018 10% · 2019 6% · 2020 5% · 2021 3% · 2022 37% · 2023 50% · 2024 43% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH 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. 0 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
Kimberly Green Reeves
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $146k → $945k.
10 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $683k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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 ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% 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
61% 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 JOSEPH COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 29% · 2019 28% · 2020 54% · 2021 42% · 2022 55% · 2023 45% — 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
37% of UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
91% of UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $896k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 JOSEPH COUNTY 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
Government funding UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $143k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$143k
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 ST JOSEPH COUNTY 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- One Roof St Joseph County LLC · disregarded
- One Roof St Joe County Se LLC · disregarded
- One Roof St Joe County Mishawaka · disregarded
- One Roof St Joe County Northwest · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH 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 ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC?
- UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,578,172 to it, the largest being INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC ($3,515,381). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $9,578,172 in grants to UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC?
- INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,515,381 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 54 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