South Carolina · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS
UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS (South Carolina) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,688,450 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,000,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $28M
What United Way of the Midlands does
Mission
United way connects people and resources to improve the quality of life in the midlands. United way invests in a broad range of community programs that increase access to health care, improve student success, assist people in crisis to achieve long term stability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Uwm promotes access to primary health care as well as dental and eye care for people who are underinsured or lack insurance at all. United way programs and investments helped over 4,400 people access health care, providing 3,107 adult and child patient visits for dental care and 2,756 adult patient visits for eye care.
$3,063,339 spentof which $1,462,768 as grants29% of program spendingUwm serves as lead u.s. Housing and urban development department (hud) agency for the midlands area consortium for the homeless (mach) which is the hud designated homeless continuum of care covering 13 counties stretching from york, through the midlands to aiken. As a team, we are committed to ending homelessness in the midlands. Mach member agencies and other partners provide direct services, shelter and housing that assist our community's homeless families, individuals, youth and veterans to stability. The complexity of the issue, diversity of the populations and shifting resources and priorities of the community and federal government make coordination key to community success. Since 2006, uwm has led mach's efforts to secure federal funding from the u.s. Department of hud to support homeless housing programs. To date, over $49 million in federal resources have been brought into the midlands through this work leveraging an estimated $154 million in matching resources.uwm manages emergency food and shelter program (efsp) funds for four of our counties. Efsp funds are federal dollars that support sheltering, food, and emergency financial assistance programs in four of uwm's…
$2,297,234 spentof which $1,618,647 as grants22% of program spendingDonor designations- as a convenience to its donors, United Way of the Midlands allows direct unrestricted contributions to other united ways or specific agencies. United Way of the Midlands supports 73 partner agencies in the areas of building resiliency and providing safety net services. United Way of the Midlands does not require the recipient organizations to provide information relative to the use results of these contributions.
$1,544,143 spentof which $1,544,143 as grants15% of program spendingEducation is key to an individual's long-term success and financial stability. Uwm focuses on early education and key transitions in school to improve on-time graduation. During the 2023-2024 school year, a total of 181 one-on-one midlands reading consortium (mrc) volunteers and 15 guest readers served 211 students through one-on-one reading sessions and 700 students through guest reading sessions. Mrc expanded stem curriculum into the program model in 5 schools and supported 12 stem events at mrc schools. 57 mrc volunteers served 1,460 students through stem events. Mrc had a presence in 20 schools, 9 school districts, and five counties. Uwm also supported children in after-school and school-based programs. A total of 4,137 students between kindergarten and 12th grade were enrolled in youth education and development programs supported by uwm. Young men united (ymu) is an evidence-informed initiative designed to create barrier-free pathways for young men to reach their academic and career goals. Ymu offers wraparound supports to young men starting in the tenth and eleventh grade, supporting them until they graduate from a college program and/or enter the workforce. In 2023-2024,…
$3,617,734 spentof which $1,217,944 as grants$517,215 earned by the program34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,522,450.
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 $14M to $24M (+66%).
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 6% · 2019 7% · 2020 9% · 2021 6% · 2022 14% · 2023 8% · 2024 4% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS’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. 6 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.
Chief executive
Sara Fawcett
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $479k → $2.8M.
18 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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: $5.8M from 13 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Central Carolina Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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 MIDLANDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 61%; 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 THE MIDLANDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 23% · 2019 36% · 2020 24% · 2021 86% · 2022 21% · 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
64% of UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
55% of UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS'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 $10M that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 MIDLANDS receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $23M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.7M
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 THE MIDLANDS
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Community Partners of the Midlands LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: 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 MIDLANDS?
- UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS (South Carolina) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,688,450 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,000,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% 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 MIDLANDS have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $22,688,450 in grants to UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 67 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