Maine · Nonprofit
United Way of York County
United Way of York County (Maine) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $680,676 to it, the largest being Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation ($114,950). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $232k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $681k
- Net assets
- $0
What United Way of York County does
Mission
United Way of York County improves lives by mobilizing peoples and resources.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
COMMUNITY INVESTMENTSUnited Way of York County improves lives by mobilizing people and resources. We invest in the following impact areas, as described in our current Strategic Plan:Bright Beginnings: All York County children, from birth through age 8, have the best start for lifelong learning and success.Connected Youth: All youth in York County are valued by and contribute to the well-being of the community through service and philanthropy.Supportive Services: Invest in services that support strategic priorities, strengthen families, meet basic needs and build community capacity. United Way of York County invested $68,687 in these programs in 2021.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2020 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. 1 of the last 2 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 → 2022: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $54k → $35k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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: $1.2M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut). These are real filings, and they are not money United Way of York County raised.
From the IRS filings of United Way of York County’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 York County has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
34% 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 York County.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 41% · 2019 47% · 2020 18% · 2021 32% · 2022 100% — 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
67% of United Way of York County's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 FY2022, 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
65% of United Way of York County's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $224k 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.
Organizations like United Way of York County
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 York County: 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 York County?
- United Way of York County (Maine) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $680,676 to it, the largest being Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation ($114,950). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does United Way of York County have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $680,676 in grants to United Way of York County, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of United Way of York County?
- Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $114,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like United Way of York County find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2020–2021), and the filings of 21 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing