West Virginia · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC
UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $672,975 to it, the largest being SHIRLEY SHULTZ CHARITABLE TRUST R73190002 ($156,442). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $673k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What United Way of the River Cities Inc does
Mission
Uwrc, inc. Is a local non-profit organization with a mission to connect its's community with resources to reduce poverty and improve lives where everyone has the tools and opportunity to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
United way distributes funds to human service organizations through a competitive grants process. Organizations apply for funds during the summer,volunteers review the applications and make recommendations to the board of directors, which approves the final funds distribution by december 30. Funded partners provide semi-annual reports on their work, including their progress on outcomes. Funds are awarded to support a saefty net of services, and for strategies that address critical community issues.
$1,073,151 spentof which $632,396 as grants100% of program spendingUwrc's education initiative is a community collaboration that works on a continuum to ensure that children succeed. Early childhood efforts focus on early brain development and preparing children for kindergarten through the programs like the brain under construction zone, community baby showers, and born learning trails. United career launch is an internship program for high school students where students are transported to various work sites to participate in paid internships. Guest speakers also visit the school to discuss potential careers and provide financial education on basics like opening a checking account and managing money.
Uwrc conducts fundraising year-round. Fundraising events are generally held in the spring and/or summer. The annual workplace campaign is conducted in the fall. Funds raised through the year are distributed to the community through the grants process. Volunteers assist with the fundraising events and the workplace campaign. Therefore, fundraising expenses are kept to a minimum through the use of volunteers and other in-kind support.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,073,151.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3.1M to $2.7M (−12%).
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 13% · 2018 20% · 2019 20% · 2020 23% · 2021 21% · 2022 22% · 2023 8% · 2024 7% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $13k → $112k.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $1.7M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way River Cities Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 RIVER CITIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
37% 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 RIVER CITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 40% · 2019 69% · 2020 31% · 2021 43% · 2022 34% · 2023 28% — 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
31% of UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
52% of UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC's grant income comes from West Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES 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 West Virginia
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
98%
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
- United Way Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $672,975 to it, the largest being SHIRLEY SHULTZ CHARITABLE TRUST R73190002 ($156,442). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $672,975 in grants to UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC?
- SHIRLEY SHULTZ CHARITABLE TRUST R73190002 is the largest funder on record, with $156,442 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 30 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