United Way of Broward County Inc
Fort Lauderdale, FL · EIN 59-0624402. Reported 209 grants totalling $26.6M to 46 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For United Way of Broward County Inc, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T700).
- How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 98% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $100,281. Half of what it reported fell between $61,265 and $167,996; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $769,664. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food Marketing Consultants Inc | Miramar, FL | $3,178,634 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Healthy Mothers-Healthy Babies Coalition of Broward Co | N Lauderdale, FL | $1,714,511 | 10 | 5 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of South Florida Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $1,176,103 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Early Learning Coalition of Broward County Inc | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $1,163,656 | 10 | 5 | 2024 |
| First Call for Help of Broward Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $1,159,395 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Arc Broward Inc | Sunrise, FL | $1,109,120 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Jack and Jill Childrens Center Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $1,081,797 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Urban League of Broward County Incorporated | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $949,522 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Light of the World Clinic Inc | Oakland Park, FL | $932,015 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Hispanic Unity of Florida Inc | Hollywood, FL | $903,935 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Areawide Council on Aging of Broward County Inc | Sunrise, FL | $898,544 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dr Stanley and Pearl Goodman Jfs of Broward County Inc | Davie, FL | $858,782 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Community Based Connections | Pembrook Pines, FL | $836,639 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Childrens Diagnostic & Treatment Center Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $778,484 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $737,253 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Memorial Foundation Inc | Madison, TN | $641,052 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Broward Partnership for the Homeless Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $622,681 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Henderson Behavioral Health Inc | Lauderdale Lakes, FL | $614,044 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Kids in Distress Inc | Wilton Manors, FL | $605,459 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Gildas Club of South Florida Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $548,912 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Broward Healthy Start Coalition Inc | Laud Lakes, FL | $512,009 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Crockett Foundation Inc | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $502,561 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Mental Health America of Southeast Florida | Lauderhill, FL | $500,652 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| Sunshine Social Services Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $457,515 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| South Florida Institute on Aging Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $456,021 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Joe Dimaggio Childrens Hospital Foundation Inc | Hollywood, FL | $426,579 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Florida Independence Training & Education Center Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $400,133 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Broward County Community Development Corporation Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $392,144 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Firewall Centers Inc | Cooper City, FL | $366,633 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Lighthouse of Broward County Inc | Sunrise, FL | $326,572 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Pace Center for Girls Inc | Jacksonville, FL | $275,539 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Brookhaven, GA | $265,972 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Taskforce Fore Ending Homelessness Inc | Lauderhill, FL | $201,833 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Women in Distress of Broward County Inc | Lighthouse Pt, FL | $146,458 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Second Chance Society | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $144,812 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Care Resource Community Health Centers Inc | Miami, FL | $132,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Broward Regional Health Planning Council Inc | Hollywood, FL | $115,947 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Helping Advance and Nurture the Development of Youth Inc | Wilton Manor, FL | $112,956 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mount Olive Development Corporation | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $75,880 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Easter Seals South Florida Inc | Miami, FL | $74,268 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Daniel D Cantor Senior Center | Sunrise, FL | $74,166 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Canine Assisted Therapy Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $40,417 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Museum of Discovery and Science Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $35,417 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Slow Burn Theatre Company Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $34,166 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Covenant House Florida Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Special Olympics Florida Inc | Clermont, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
44 of 46 (96%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 39 of 46 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 44 | $4,647,112 | $77,167 |
| 2021 | 46 | $5,719,804 | $93,641 |
| 2022 | 47 | $6,049,405 | $104,256 |
| 2023 | 36 | $4,923,349 | $120,000 |
| 2024 | 36 | $5,291,518 | $123,048 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
92% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
35 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 88 grants totalling $2,839,433 to United Way of Broward County Inc. That is 38% of the 93 funders we can see giving to it. Those 35 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a federated giving programme.
22 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ansin Foundation Inc | Florida | $610,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ansin Foundation | Florida | $370,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Frederick a Deluca Foundation Inc | Florida | $350,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Wanda and James M Moran JR Foundation | Florida | $285,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Susie and Alan B Levan Family | Florida | $256,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Gendal Family Charitable Foundation | Florida | $125,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Wells Fargo Foundation | Minnesota | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Alvin Sherman Family Foundation | Florida | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Howard Greenfield Charitable | Florida | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Centene Foundation | Missouri | $83,805 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
The 10 largest by reported dollars, of 35.
A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $100,281 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from United Way of Broward County Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 36 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1300 South Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33316.
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