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UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS

UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS (Tennessee) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,435,772 to it, the largest being FORD PHILANTHROPY ($2,007,541). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.9M
Revenue FY2025
33
Funders on record
$3.4M
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
17/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%

Against its field

UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($2.2M)2018 Revenue 103 ($1.8M) Expenses 93 ($1.7M) Net assets 103 ($2.3M)2019 Revenue 93 ($1.6M) Expenses 93 ($1.7M) Net assets 97 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 94 ($1.6M) Expenses 80 ($1.5M) Net assets 96 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 108 ($1.9M) Expenses 85 ($1.5M) Net assets 110 ($2.4M)2022 Revenue 95 ($1.6M) Expenses 88 ($1.6M) Net assets 111 ($2.4M)2023 Revenue 111 ($1.9M) Expenses 108 ($2.0M) Net assets 108 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 139 ($2.4M) Expenses 155 ($2.8M) Net assets 89 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 282 ($4.9M) Expenses 224 ($4.1M) Net assets 124 ($2.7M)
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Revenue (282)Expenses (224)Net assets (124)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 14% · 2022 3% · 2023 10% · 2024 36% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,048 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$105k
17
$83k
18
$97k
19
$165k
20
$307k
21
$25k
22
$69k
23
$426k
24
$774k
25
2.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $104k → $568k.

7 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)12% 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: $102k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest West Tn Healthcare Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS raised.

From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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 WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

38% 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 WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS.

58%
largest funder
73%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 41% · 2019 57% · 2020 41% · 2021 23% · 2022 18% · 2023 66%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

40% of UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 13 states in all.

WI
MI
MA
OH
MO
VA
DE
AR
TN
MS
AL
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $428k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 33 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.

Federal$60k
grants $60kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$60k

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 WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Tennessee

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 26%Fundraising 8%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS?
UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS (Tennessee) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,435,772 to it, the largest being FORD PHILANTHROPY ($2,007,541). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $3,435,772 in grants to UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS?
FORD PHILANTHROPY is the largest funder on record, with $2,007,541 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 33funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing