United Way of Davidson County Inc
Lexington, NC · EIN 56-1847133. Reported 112 grants totalling $3,918,636 to 26 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, 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 Davidson County Inc, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 20% 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. 86% 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 $27,804. Half of what it reported fell between $14,625 and $42,472; the smallest was $5,877 and the largest $177,389. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family Services of Davidson County Inc | Lexington, NC | $775,159 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Salvation Army - Boys & Girls Club | Lexington, NC | $503,816 | 12 | 5 | 2025 |
| Davidson Medical Ministries Clinic Inc | Lexington, NC | $401,396 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Workshop of Davidson Incorporated | Lexington, NC | $230,936 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| J Smith Young YMCA Inc | Lexington, NC | $213,399 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Pastors Pantry Targeting Senior Hunger | Lexington, NC | $198,560 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Cancer Services of Davidson County Inc | Lexington, NC | $195,823 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Life Center of Davidson County Inc | Lexington, NC | $189,547 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Tom a Finch Community YMCA Inc | Thomasville, NC | $181,431 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Communities in Schools of Lexington Inc | Lexington, NC | $154,862 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Communities in Schools of Thomasville Inc | Thomasville, NC | $136,070 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $129,300 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Home Solutions of Davidson County Nc Inc | Lexington, NC | $124,799 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| South Davidson Family Resource | Denton, NC | $89,871 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Lexington Educational Association | Lexington, NC | $66,358 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Meals on Wheels of Lexington Inc | Lexington, NC | $66,313 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Arc Davidson County Inc | Lexington, NC | $64,069 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Positive Wellness Alliance | Lexington, NC | $40,900 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Nazareth Childrens Home | Rockwell, NC | $30,739 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hospice of Davidson County North Carolina Inc | Lexington, NC | $29,996 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Child Care Connection Inc | Trenton, NJ | $22,755 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing of Davidson County | Lexington, NC | $21,697 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Meals on Wheels of Thomasville Inc | Thomasville, NC | $17,440 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cares Project Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $12,029 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Special Olympics North Carolina Inc | Morrisville, NC | $11,371 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dragonfly House Childrens Advocacy Center | Mocksville, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
23 of 26 (88%) 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 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.
- Family Services of Davidson County
Provides crisis intervention including shelter and other domestic violence and sexual assault services; provides counseling services to at-risk children and families; in-home counseling services. - Davidson Medical Ministries
PROVIDES PRESCRIPTION DRUGS/DENTAL SERVICES AND BASIC MEDICAL TREATMENT TO INDIGENT/UN-INSURED/UNDER-INSURED. - Salvation Army of Davidson County
Provides financial assistance to those in need for rent, utilities, prescriptions, food and clothing, heating fuel and household items. Soup kitchen provides meals 5 days a week to needy. - The Workshop of Davidson County
PROVIDES VOCATIONAL AND LIFE SKILLS TRAINING FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. - Salvation Army - Boys & Girls Club
OFFERS PREVENTION ORIENTED PROGRAMS FOR NEEDY YOUTH AFTER SCHOOL, EVENINGS AND DURING THE SUMMER. - J Smith Young YMCA
A FAMILY FACILITY OFFERING AFTER-SCHOOL CARE PROGRAMS, SUMMER DAY CAMP.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 18 of 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 24 | $784,548 | $26,665 |
| 2022 | 23 | $789,854 | $26,412 |
| 2023 | 22 | $822,420 | $31,230 |
| 2024 | 23 | $793,909 | $27,477 |
| 2025 | 20 | $727,905 | $32,519 |
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
96% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. 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 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 $27,804 -- 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 North Carolina.
- 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 Davidson County Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). 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.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 492, Lexington, NC, 27293.
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