Texas · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY
UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY (Texas) receives grants from 99 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,944,740 to it, the largest being RAINWATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($3,257,420). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 99
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What United Way of Tarrant County does
Mission
As a nonprofit leader, uwtc mobilizes our community to action so all can thrive. We identify critical needs, foster collaboration and invest in solutions that drive change. Our programs serve nearly 400,000 people each year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Area agency on aging:United Way of Tarrant County's area agency on aging (aaa) is one of 28 aaas in texas supported by state and federal funds for older adult services. These funds are authorized by the older americans act and administered through the administration for community living and the state of texas legislature. Aaa plans for the services needed and distributes funds for programs. United Way of Tarrant County's aaa programs help to promote independence, empowerment and dignity for older adults and their caregivers and have been proven to help older adults remain in their homes for as long as possible.
$8,450,932 spentof which $5,380,157 as grants45% of program spendingAgency allocations:United Way of Tarrant County financially supports numerous efforts targeting and addressing the four focus areas of need outlined in our latest community assessment. Through monitoring and careful examination of program outcomes, United Way of Tarrant County determines the specific level of funding for each of these programs, based on total funds available through our annual workplace campaign. Total number of grantees: 67
$3,026,002 spentof which $2,231,500 as grants16% of program spendingEconomic recovery: the health and well-being of our community is a top priority at United Way of Tarrant County. The economic impact of covid-19 left large populations in need of social services and financial assistance. The volunteer income tax assistance (vita) program filed 3,809 tax returns that resulted in over $3,243,161 million in refunds. Vita clients set up over $85,710 in first-time savings accounts. United Way of Tarrant County was awarded a $350,000 grant in spring 2023 from the federal communications commission to conduct outreach for and help enroll eligible families in the affordable connectivity program (acp), a benefit program that helps ensure that qualifying low-income households can afford the broadband they need for work, school, healthcare and more. Four United Way of Tarrant County initiatives directly addressing areas of community need related to pandemic recovery received nearly $10 million in federal funding from the tarrant county commissioners court and city of fort worth in september. These funds will support four initiatives focused on addressing increasing teen gun violence, improving maternal and infant health, reducing economic disparities in 76104…
$4,510,971 spentof which $2,845,351 as grants24% of program spendingEquity
$1,956,036 spentof which $1,960,474 as grants$12,210 earned by the program10% of program spendingMission united:mission united, a military and veterans' outreach and services initiative of United Way of Tarrant County, helps veterans, active-duty military members, and their families in north texas find community resources and gain access to a variety of services. The veterans fund is dedicated to supporting military service members who are returning to civilian life in the tarrant county area, including counseling, career and financial coaching, addiction treatment, and other high-priority needs, providing more than $300,000 in grants. The texas veterans network provides coordinated access to services, resources, and programming for thousands of active-duty military, veterans and their families each year. For those age 60 and older or with a disability, a dedicated veterans specialist at the area agency on aging and the aging and disability resource center provides case management, home visit support, and outreach to qualifying veterans, their families, and spouses.
$1,043,947 spentof which $310,000 as grants5% of program spendingService centers:three outlying service centers are leased from the city of arlington under operating leases. The facilities are subleased to various benefit and service organizations and government agencies.
$12,210 earned by the program
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,987,888.
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 $18M to $12M (−29%).
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 25% · 2018 31% · 2019 31% · 2020 35% · 2021 49% · 2022 52% · 2023 59% · 2024 65% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $781k → $2.3M.
16 of 99 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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: $6.4M from 24 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax); $4.5M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way of Tarrant County); $13k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Halperin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 99 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 TARRANT COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
39% 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 TARRANT COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 28% · 2019 18% · 2020 19% · 2021 30% · 2022 59% · 2023 18% — 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
45% of UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
64% of UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 TARRANT COUNTY's funding base is broadening — from 22 funders to 40 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.7M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.0M
- Department of the Treasury$1.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.4M
- Federal Communications Commission$350k
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 TARRANT 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
- Board Development Systems Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF TARRANT 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 TARRANT COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY (Texas) receives grants from 99 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,944,740 to it, the largest being RAINWATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($3,257,420). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 99 organizations giving $14,944,740 in grants to UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY, 58 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY?
- RAINWATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,257,420 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF TARRANT 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 99 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