Iowa · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES
UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES (Iowa) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,192,410 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($14,101,160). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $11M
What United Way Quad Cities does
Mission
United way qc mission is mobilizing people and resources to improve lives in our community. United way qc develops, supports and invests in the most impactful strategies and partners to strengthen education, income and health--the building blocks of opportunity. United way qc believes every quad citizen deserves the opportunity to live their best possible life. United way qc involves partners and supporters from all walks of life in volunteerism, advocacy and investment and uses resources and networks to bring the best people, ideas and projects together to create opportunities for all quad citizens. If we work together, we believe that every quad citizen, regardless of race or zip code, will have access and opportunity to develop their full potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
United for schools already started in fy24 with two elementary schools, but we expanded the program in fy25 by expanding to five elementary schools in total and hiring a site coordinator to work at each of the locations.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Volunteer engagement volunteer engagement is a strategy to inspire employees in the workplace to further united way's mission by committing to long-term, ongoing projects that move the needle in education, income, and health. Day of caring, where thousands of individuals volunteer for hundreds of projects throughout the community, is one of our largest volunteer events. Corporate volunteer opportunities can include: conducting book drives or school supply drives, reading, mentoring, assisting in food delivery, and more
$177,662 spent4% of program spendingCommunity investment and impact - united way qc works hard to ensure community impact contributions are invested in several targeted priorities to make the maximum impact possible in the quad cities area. Allocable community impact grants are distributed through a volunteer review process, whereby local volunteers assess programs and recommend fund allocations to the united way qc board of directors. In the quad cities, approximately 120 volunteers are involved in this important, multi-year process. The board of directors also invests community impact funds in united way qc operations and united way qc initiatives as needed. Create long-lasting changes that get to the root causes by focusing on critical issues in our community in education, income, and health-the foundation of stability for us all. By channeling our time and resources, we create measurable change where it's needed most. Our education council and other key stakeholders help lead the development of initiatives to achieve community impact.
$3,020,976 spent66% of program spendingUnited way initiatives and donor networks-united way qc works closely with local change makers to transform the lives of quad citians through our donor networks. Staff provide support to volunteers and workplace campaigns centered on one or more of the donor networks. Donor networks include women united, emerging leaders and african american leadership society focusing on early childhood education, third grade reading proficiency and fostering the next generation of black leaders, respectfully. Initiatives include volunteer income tax assistance (vita), vision to learn, united for schools, read united
$1,266,201 spent28% of program spendingLabor - the mission of the community services liaison is to develop and support an active participation of labor in united way qc activities such as resource development, community investment, and community impact. Resource development - efficiently and effectively raise the maximum amount of funds from employees, businesses, individuals, grants, labor members, and foundations to improve the quality of life for individuals and families in the quad cities area. In addition, united way qc is building an endowment to help guarantee quality of life in our community into the future.united for schools united for schools brings united way to the center of title 1 schools. The united for schools initiative addresses opportunity and resource gaps with research-driven, school-aligned programming at partner schools. We focus on accelerating student achievement and empower students and their families through partnerships with service providers, businesses, and engaged individuals and groups. In addition, through programming, volunteering, and consulting, we connect schools with the specific resources they need to create the conditions for all families to learn, earn, and live. These services…
$127,835 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,592,674.
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 2020 to 2021, from $12M to $13M (+8%).
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%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Rene Gellerman
President/CEO
Board chair
Caitlin Russell
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $119k → $3.0M.
14 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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: $15M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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 QUAD CITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 QUAD CITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 31% · 2019 30% · 2020 94% · 2021 93% · 2022 87% · 2023 80% — 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
38% of UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
94% of UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES'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 $1.0M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 QUAD CITIES is better cushioned than half of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 QUAD CITIES: 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 QUAD CITIES?
- UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES (Iowa) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,192,410 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($14,101,160). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $17,192,410 in grants to UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $14,101,160 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 41 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