Virginia · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE (Virginia) receives grants from 418 organizations whose IRS filings report $211,442,305 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($25,382,808). 192 of them have funded it in more than one year. UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$370M
Recipients
7,347
Contributions on record
$212M
Donors on record
415
Payments out are 1.75x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
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.
- Feeding Americashared funders
- Siemer Instituteportfolio match
- United Way of Tri County Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2021 4% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 56 funders to 114 funders, grant income fell $18M → $14M.
67 of 418 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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: $190k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way Worldwide). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 418 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.
Where its funders are
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 40 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85M arriving through sponsors registered in 29 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.
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 418 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Feeding Americashared fundersIL · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
- Siemer Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Tri County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Compassion and Charity Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of New York Stateportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Ways of Iowaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- FINRA Investor Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Ways of Tennesseeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of North Carolinaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Ways of Texas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 130 organizations that share your funders
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 WORLDWIDE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.7M
- Department of the Treasury$462k
- Corporation for National and Community Service$315k
- Department of Defense$5k
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.
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
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- United Way Digital Holdings LLC · disregarded
- United Way Worldwide (Asia) Limited · exempt
- Frontstream Holdings LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: 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.
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 WORLDWIDE?
- UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE (Virginia) receives grants from 418 organizations whose IRS filings report $211,442,305 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($25,382,808). 192 of them have funded it in more than one year. UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE have?
- IRS filings report 418 organizations giving $211,442,305 in grants to UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE, 192 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $25,382,808 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 418funders 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