North Carolina · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC
UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,039,225 to it, the largest being J L MAXWELL JR FOUNDATION ($202,325). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What United Way of Wayne County Inc does
Mission
United way of wayne county is a community based organization, working in partnership with local non-profit organizations to strategically address many of our community's social issues. United way of wayne county invested in a number of local programs with specific community goals aimed to improve the health and wellness of individuals, improve futures for children through success in education, increasing people's ability to attain and maintain financial stability and respond to personal crises. United way of wayne county partners with local non-profits, which align with its strategic goals to improve the quality of life for individuals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See attached schedule o the mission statement of united way of wayne county is to bring people and resources together to improve lives in wayne county. For the last 100 years, united way of wayne county (uwwc) has engaged the community to work collaboratively to address the root causes of many social issues. In 2015, united way of wayne county realized the challenges to healthy child development and placed more emphasis within its four focus areas of education; health & wellness; financial stability, and community responsiveness on early childhood development for ages 0-10 to help prepare children to be successful in school and life. In 2020, with all the challenges of a pandemic, the uwwc partnered with the wayne county health department and curamerica by hiring dozens of community healthcare workers over the next five years in support of the community needs. In 2022, on the heels of multiple years of decline in employee campaigns, and moving through a pandemic, the united way of wayne county board and staff, along with many other united way agencies across the country, began to seek other opportunities to serve the community and remain relevant. In 2023, staff began…
$945,774 spentof which $596,649 as grants$26,067 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $945,774.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.0M to $2.8M (+39%).
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.
93% of UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Sherry Archibald
Exec dir/sec
Board chair
Bernadette Carter-Dove
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $68k → $136k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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: $106k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way of Wayne County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY 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 WAYNE COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
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 WAYNE COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 33% · 2019 39% · 2020 26% · 2021 18% · 2022 17% · 2023 19% — 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
72% of UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% 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
91% of UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $364k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 WAYNE COUNTY INC's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY 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 WAYNE COUNTY INC?
- UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,039,225 to it, the largest being J L MAXWELL JR FOUNDATION ($202,325). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,039,225 in grants to UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC?
- J L MAXWELL JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $202,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North 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 26 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