South Carolina · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC
UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,801,364 to it, the largest being Spartanburg County Foundation ($1,287,635). 33 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
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What United Way of the Piedmont Inc does
Mission
Together we are strengthening educational opportunity, economic mobility, and access to healthcare for families across spartanburg, cherokee, and union counties in south carolina.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community engagement/education - 1) united way seeks to engage community citizens in giving, advocacy, and volunteerism. We educate our citizens about social and economic concerns that face our region and then channel their interest into the appropriate venue. Much of our advocacy is rooted in our partnerships with united for alice, sc211, philanthropic and community partners, and strategic spartanburg. 2) our volunteer service coordination connects individuals and corporate partners with opportunities to give back throughout the year with targeted focus for mlk day of service and during tax season. In fy 2024-2025, we coordinated approximately 35,200 hours of service. Our volunteer income tax assistance initiative prepared tax returns free of charge for nearly 2,550 area families, returning more than 2.5 million in refunds and 895,000 in credits to our community, as well as saving over 510,000 in filing fees. 3) united way leads the behavioral health task force, which involves numerous community leaders whose focus is on increasing the number of individuals in our community who have access to needed behavioral health services, investing funds and staff time toward this effort. 4)…
$3,103,659 spentof which $1,152,721 as grants$50,378 earned by the program66% of program spendingCommunity investment - united way invests our financial resources in critical programs and services throughout our three-county region through the community investment process. Volunteers representing united way's donor base review agency program applications and recommend funding levels to the board of directors in the areas of education, economic mobility, and health. We invested approximately 1.4 million in 44 agencies and about 69 programs in the investment process. In addition, during the period ending march 31, 2025, united way coordinated approximately 140,000 in funds designated to specific agencies by our donors.
$1,596,632 spentof which $1,456,891 as grants$112,353 earned by the program34% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,700,291.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $4.1M to $3.3M (−18%).
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 3% · 2022 12% · 2023 2% · 2024 16% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Mitch Kennedy
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $382k → $1.0M.
15 of 51 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: $2.7M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way Association of South Carolina Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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 PIEDMONT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
62% 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 PIEDMONT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 28% · 2019 24% · 2020 13% · 2021 40% · 2022 23% · 2023 53% — 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
55% of UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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 THE PIEDMONT INC'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 $2.9M that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Government funding UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $230k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$230k
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 PIEDMONT 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
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 PIEDMONT 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 THE PIEDMONT INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,801,364 to it, the largest being Spartanburg County Foundation ($1,287,635). 33 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 THE PIEDMONT INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $5,801,364 in grants to UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC?
- Spartanburg County Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,287,635 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 51 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