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United Way of Greater Greensboro Inc

Greensboro, NC · EIN 56-0668555. Reported 130 grants totalling $14.5M to 39 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

39organizations funded
$75,631median reported grant
$14.5Mgranted, 2020-2023
94%of grantees funded again the next year
11%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For United Way of Greater Greensboro Inc, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 11% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 94% 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 $75,631. Half of what it reported fell between $45,000 and $115,000; the smallest was $16,896 and the largest $440,660. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$10,000 - $25,000
5 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
30 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
44 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
35 grants
$250,000 Or More
16 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Family Service of the Piedmont IncJamestown, NC$1,592,320442023
The Salvation ArmyBrookhaven, GA$1,401,284442023
GenerationedGreensboro, NC$1,309,940442023
Communities in Schools of Greater Greensboro IncGreensboro, NC$1,083,719442023
Legal Aid of North Carolina IncGreensboro, NC$655,690442023
Uncg Center for New North Carolinians (the University of North Carolina atGreensboro, NC$581,314442023
Senior Resources of GuilfordGreensboro, NC$545,519442023
Partners Ending HomelessnessHigh Point, NC$539,500442023
Greensboro Cerebral Palsy Association IncGreensboro, NC$510,644442023
Reading Connections IncGreensboro, NC$485,822442023
YWCA GreensboroGreensboro, NC$374,342442023
One Step Further IncorporatedGreensboro, NC$362,290442023
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Thecentral Piedmont IncHigh Point, NC$351,194442023
Community Housing Solutions of Guilford IncGreensboro, NC$322,518332022
Black Child Development Institute of Greensboro IncorporatedGreensboro, NC$321,428442023
Womens Resource Center of Greensboro IncGreensboro, NC$314,856442023
Childrens Home Society of North Carolina IncGreensboro, NC$274,494332022
The Triad Health ProjectGreensboro, NC$258,956442023
The Volunteer Center of the TriadGreensboro, NC$256,020442023
Sanctuary HouseGreensboro, NC$243,480442023
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Greensboro IncGreensboro, NC$242,376442023
Young Mens Christian Association of Greensboro IncGreensboro, NC$237,734442023
Operation Xcel Promoting Excellent Communities Education & LeadershipStokesdale, NC$215,918442023
The Arc of Greensboro IncGreensboro, NC$209,696442023
New Arrivals Institute IncGreensboro, NC$201,714222023
Guilford Technical Community College Foundation IncJamestown, NC$192,794442023
Housing Consultants GroupGreensboro, NC$180,000222023
Adult Center for Enrichment IncGreensboro, NC$149,300222021
Piedmont Health Services and Sickle Cell AgencyGreensboro, NC$138,846442023
The Servant Center IncGreensboro, NC$127,026442023
Backpack BeginningsGreensboro, NC$125,000112023
Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship IncGreensboro, NC$120,000222023
Mental Health Association of GreensboroGreensboro, NC$117,864332022
Tiny House Community DevelopmentGreensboro, NC$117,000112023
Alexander Youth NetworkCharlotte, NC$116,256332022
Guilford Adult Health IncGreensboro, NC$83,792442023
Goodwill Industries of Central North Carolina IncGreensboro, NC$50,000112023
Youth Focus IncCharlotte, NC$45,000222023
Kellin FoundationGreensboro, NC$25,000112023

35 of 39 (90%) 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 kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 39 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.

Human Services
17 orgs
Housing & Shelter
3 orgs
Education
2 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Crime & Legal
1 org
Youth Development
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202031$3,257,943$73,340
202132$4,284,043$87,224
202233$3,497,997$75,000
202334$3,440,663$80,000

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

90% 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.

North Carolina
$13.1M
Georgia
$1.4M

Down to the city

Greensboro, NC
$10.0M
Jamestown, NC
$1.8M
Brookhaven, GA
$1.4M
High Point, NC
$891K
Stokesdale, NC
$216K
Charlotte, NC
$161K

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Funders that support the same organizations

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Community Foundation of Greater27 shared recipientsLincoln Financial Foundation Inc23 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund20 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc19 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund19 shared recipientsMoses Cone - Wesley Long Community18 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $75,631 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
  4. 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 Greater Greensboro 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.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 34 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: 1500 Yanceyville Street, Greensboro, NC, 27405.

EIN 56-0668555 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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