Georgia · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE
UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE (Georgia) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,123,454 to it, the largest being THE SAVANNAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($3,361,860). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $24M
What United Way of the Coastal Empire does
Mission
United Way of the Coastal Empire's mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring powers of communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Strategic investments of 3,100,000 were made through an extensive community, volunteer-driven evaluation process. These funds support 82 critical human services programs across 53 local nonprofit organizations, providing a safety-net for the most vulnerable and pathways for upward mobility, ensuring everyone can thrive. The team has also completed three bipoc (black, indigenous, people of color) nonprofit leadership symposiums and graduated more than 55 nonprofit leaders.
$6,135,767 spentof which $4,287,656 as grants90% of program spendingDirect services, provided through the united way's 211 information and referral service and county service centers, answered more than 8645 calls for help and coordinated the distribution of managed funds, including the city of savannah's rental and security deposit assistance program. The team distributed more than 570,000 of assistance since the program's inception to 440 families, a 40% increase over the city's original goal for number of families served. Other notable assistance includes, but is not limited to the publix fund with more than 8,000 in assistance to employed individuals experiencing hardship, approximately 460,000 to support disaster support in the area, specialized needs in the region, and 48,000 to break down transportation barriers through the women united transportation fund.
$647,685 spent10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,783,452.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.8M to $26M (+276%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 8% · 2023 6% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 20 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $952k → $2.1M.
18 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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: $1.4M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way of the Coastal Empire); $429k from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Communal Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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 THE COASTAL EMPIRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 THE COASTAL EMPIRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 32% · 2019 33% · 2020 42% · 2021 42% · 2022 48% · 2023 55% — 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
47% of UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE'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
82% of UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE'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 $2.0M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 THE COASTAL EMPIRE receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $11M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE: 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 THE COASTAL EMPIRE?
- UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE (Georgia) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,123,454 to it, the largest being THE SAVANNAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($3,361,860). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $11,123,454 in grants to UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE?
- THE SAVANNAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,361,860 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 55 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