Florida · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC
UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC (Florida) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,645,316 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,000,000). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 115
- Grants received
- $48M
- Net assets
- $43M
What United Way Suncoast Inc does
Mission
United way suncoast's mission is to mobilize communities to action so all can thrive. (continued on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Financial security we know that across our five-county region, 45% or 658,473 families earn below the alice threshold, a nationwide marker for financial health. From this threshold, a family with two adults and two children in childcare needs to make over $100,000 to get by financially across our region. To address these hundreds of thousands of families, united way suncoast rallies around building stronger financial security for everyone. United way suncoast concentrates on ensuring our alice families have access to financial services and support as well as career opportunities that lead to a family sustaining wage that creates a path to financial security. (continued on schedule o)this is accomplished by providing access to certificate programs or higher education degrees, help individuals retain and sustain their assets including access to benefits, safe and affordable banking, and sound financial knowledge, and by removing systemic barriers to increase access to financial support. In addition, united way suncoast has invested $6.4 million over the last three years with 34 nonprofit partners focused on helping community members obtain long term employment, keeping and…
$6,151,249 spentof which $4,549,623 as grants36% of program spendingEducational opportunity when a young child enters kindergarten ready for school, there is an 82% chance that child will master basic skills by age 11, compared with a 45% chance for children who are not school ready. United way suncoast concentrates on ensuring children enter kindergarten ready to learn by strengthening caregivers as their child's first teacher, providing early learning educators with professional development opportunities, and enhancing early learning centers to provide high-impact tools to strengthen school readiness. (continued on schedule o)over the last three years, our multi-year investment strategy has led to more than 7,000 students arriving on the first day of kindergarten with the needed social and emotional skills. With the aim of improving third-grade literacy, we ensure school-age children have the support they need by collaborating with our respective school districts to provide additional in-school support and access to before- and after-school programs. Since 2022, we have helped more than 10,000 students read on level or show progress by third grade. We're also helping more children attend summer programs to combat summer learning backslide. In…
$5,313,216 spentof which $3,788,269 as grants32% of program spendingCommunity resiliency community resiliency encompasses capacity building and disaster resiliency. Capacity building leverages our expertise to support, enhance and invest in our nonprofit partners. Disaster resiliency is our commitment to proactive preparation and response to disasters and emerging challenges. Capacity building is best defined as investment. That is because our investments in partner programs and capacity building efforts yield a return for the community. Every dollar we invest in increasing the capacity of our partners returns a value of $2.75 to the community. (continued on schedule o)we have built our capacity building efforts on a foundation of care that is data-informed, and people-focused. To achieve high quality community impact, our investment strategy includes supporting the development and growth of the people running our partner programs as well as sharing our expertise and eliminating our partners' administrative barriers. Instead of just asking our partners about their plans for sustainability, we contribute to it: our partners leveraged an additional $7.7 million through additional grants and donations as a direct result of our investment. When we…
$4,032,717 spentof which $1,986,157 as grants$133,925 earned by the program24% of program spendingR.I.s.e united way suncoast is entrusted with a 100-year beacon that demands our best. That light and our decades of success prompted philanthropist mackenzie scott to donate $20 million dollars to the organization in december of 2020. Through thoughtful determination, united way suncoast created the r.I.s.e. (reach, invest, support and empower) task force and a blueprint that aligns with its new strategic plan while staying focused on the key impact areas outlined above: educational opportunity and financial security. We have infused what we now call our rise dollars into our work instead of squirreling them away in a bank account. In 2022, we invested more than $3 million dollars with 16 strategic partners to help more than 6,000 families avoid eviction or find new stable housing in the last two years. We also provided $1.3 million in direct assistance to help families with rent, mortgage, and utilities. The investment helped us leverage an additional $1.9 million dollars in emergency rental assistance funds, government funds, and private funds for a total impact of more than $5 million dollars. Rise dollars also were invested to help with mid- and long-term recovery from…
$1,369,611 spentof which $1,369,611 as grants$151,986 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,866,793.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $45M to $69M (+56%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 9% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Jessica Muroff
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $3.1M → $3.8M.
20 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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: $8.8M from 29 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Florida Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 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 SUNCOAST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 SUNCOAST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 52% · 2019 63% · 2020 39% · 2021 89% · 2022 16% · 2023 38% — 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
55% of UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
75% of UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC'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 $12M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 SUNCOAST INC's revenue fell 19% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record — $1.3M federal, $1k state.
- Department of the Treasury$1.3M
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $1k
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 SUNCOAST 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 Florida
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
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (1) Final 2024 · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY SUNCOAST 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 SUNCOAST INC?
- UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC (Florida) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,645,316 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,000,000). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC have?
- IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $47,645,316 in grants to UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $20,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 115 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