Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
VALUES UNITED
VALUES UNITED (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,344,015 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,590,580). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $-517261
What Values United does
Mission
Values United is a non-partisan organization that assists government employees and private-sector workers to report and publicize violations of the law safely, lawfully, and responsibly. We arrange professional legal advice for whistleblowers along with an array of other supportive services. Everything we do for clients is pro bono, unless we recover a monetary award. When appropriate, we work to increase the impact of disclosures through public communications. By amplifying the voices of whistleblowers and showing that individuals can safely come forward in a way that makes a real impact, we encourage others to follow their conscience and uphold the rule of law.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Legal program: provide high quality legal representation and other support to whistleblowers. With respect to the u.s. Government, federal agencies, and other government employers, we represent employees with disclosures of egregious wrongdoing, often advising how to handle sensitive, classified information. In the private and nonprofit sectors we canvass a wide variety of matters and give consideration to high impact disclosures where a whistleblower can help both right a wrong and create broader reform. Our legal program brings together prominent whistleblower attorneys in support of the most consequential whistleblowers of our time.
$1,113,831 spent$28,014 earned by the program90% of program spendingEducational program: helps educate the public regarding both the whistleblower process in general and specific cases we work on. Publicizing the details of whistleblower's cases shows others what is possible when employees come forward with information about lawbreaking or other wrongdoing. Our team teaches continuing legal education classes, provides thought leadership, works with media, presents at conferences, and convenes gatherings to educate on the value and complexity of whistleblowing.
$123,759 spent10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,237,590.
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 2021 to 2022, from $562k to $2.3M (+312%).
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.
98% of VALUES UNITED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Libby Liu
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $2k → $1.6M.
14 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of VALUES UNITED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
VALUES UNITED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 VALUES UNITED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 35% · 2020 38% · 2021 44% · 2022 42% · 2023 71% — diversifying over time.
“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
31% of VALUES UNITED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
53% of VALUES UNITED'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 $4.9M that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
VALUES UNITED has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like VALUES UNITED
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VALUES UNITED: 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 VALUES UNITED?
- VALUES UNITED (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,344,015 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,590,580). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VALUES UNITED have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $10,344,015 in grants to VALUES UNITED, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VALUES UNITED?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,590,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VALUES UNITED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 37 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