Alaska · Nonprofit
Valdez United Way
Valdez United Way (Alaska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,647 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE ($133,333). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $91k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $134k
- Net assets
- $252k
What Valdez United Way does
Mission
Organizational Mission: Valdez United Way was organized to mobilize and stimulate the interest and participation of the citizens of the Valdez area on behalf of worthy education, health and welfare and youth organizations, whether local, regional, or national; to stimulate local public interest in social service and health, citizenship and moral training progams; to solicit and receive contributions for member agencies; to allocate and distribute to member agencies and the worthy needy, funds raised; to promote efficiency by providing a means through which annual contributions can be made in one gift; by reducing the expense of raising funds through a cooperative appeal; by conserving volunteer manpower through the elimination of duplication of time and effort; by reducing to a minimum multiple fund raising efforts; to promote cooperation, not only among member agencies, but among all such organizations of the Valdez area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Valdez citizen involvement - mobilize and stimulate the interest and participation of the citizens of the Valdez area on behalf of worthy educational, health and welfare and youth organizations, whether local, regional, or national; to stimulate local public interest in social service and health, citizenship, and moral training programs.
$86,079 spent$86,667 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $86,079.
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 2019 to 2020, from $550k to $441k (−20%).
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: 2019 98% · 2020 93% · 2021 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Valdez United Way’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100k → $55.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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: $15k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Valdez United Way). These are real filings, and they are not money Valdez United Way raised.
From the IRS filings of Valdez United Way’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
Valdez United Way leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Valdez United Way.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Valdez United Way'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 $50 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Alaska, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $134k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Valdez United Way is better cushioned than half of the 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Valdez United Way
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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
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 Valdez United Way: 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 Valdez United Way?
- Valdez United Way (Alaska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,647 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE ($133,333). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Valdez United Way have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $133,647 in grants to Valdez United Way, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Valdez United Way?
- UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE is the largest funder on record, with $133,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Valdez United Way find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 3 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