United Way of Central Virginia Inc
Lynchburg, VA · EIN 54-0505923. Reported 87 grants totalling $3,864,638 to 25 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 25 distinct organizations, with 13% 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. 95% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $40,874. Half of what it reported fell between $17,219 and $63,463; the smallest was $375 and the largest $135,132. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
21 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $1,054,191 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YWCA of Central Virginia | Lynchburg, VA | $503,972 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bethune Nursery School Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $426,526 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $354,142 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Arc of Central Virginia | Lynchburg, VA | $266,126 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Free Clinic of Central Va Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $262,576 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Presbyterian Homes & Family Services Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $237,781 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Red Cross Blue Ridge Chapter | Lynchburg, VA | $227,756 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lynchburg Community Action Group Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $225,844 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Salvation Army | Brookhaven, GA | $219,224 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| CASA of Central Virginia Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $210,326 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $163,804 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Big Brothers & Sisters of Central Virginia Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $158,133 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Central Virgina | Lynchburg, VA | $127,272 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bedford Area Family Young Mens Christian Association | Bedford, VA | $100,971 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jubilee Family Development Center Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $89,376 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Adult Care Center of Central Virginia | Lynchburg, VA | $76,055 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lynchburg Area Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $65,252 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Altavista Habitat for Humanity Inc | Altavista, VA | $45,832 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lake Christian Ministries Inc | Moneta, VA | $32,943 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bedford Christian Ministries Association | Bedford, VA | $22,124 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Roanoke, VA | $21,468 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Lynchburg Sheltered Industries Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $21,177 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Girl Scouts of Virginia Skyline Council Inc | Roanoke, VA | $3,043 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Otter River Resource Center | Lynchburg, VA | $2,540 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dawn | Altavista, VA | $375 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
22 of 25 (88%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- YWCA of Central Virginia
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION, TOWN CENTER HOUSING, SEXUAL ASSAULT RESPONSE PROGRAM - Bethune Nursery School Inc
CHILD CARE FOR LOW INCOME FAMILIES, DESIGNATED GIFTS - Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living
ASSISTED TRANSPORTATION, CONGREGATE NUTRITION, MEALS ON WHEELS FOR SENIORS - Free Clinic of Central Virginia Inc
PHARMACY, MEDICAL, DENTAL - Humankind (family Alliance)
COUNSELING CENTER, HEALTHY FAMILIES, WAYS TO WORK - Lynchburg Community Action Group Inc
HEAD START, VIRGINIA CARES, HAND UP LODGE, GATEWAY PROGRAM
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 12 of 25 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 | 22 | $1,018,800 | $41,243 |
| 2021 | 21 | $1,054,191 | $45,197 |
| 2022 | 25 | $1,043,954 | $37,213 |
| 2023 | 19 | $747,693 | $34,596 |
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
94% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. 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.
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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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $40,874 -- 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 Virginia.
- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from United Way of Central Virginia Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1010 Miller Park Square, Lynchburg, VA, 24501.
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