United Way of Greater Waterburyinc
Waterbury, CT · EIN 06-0646634. Reported 128 grants totalling $4,045,783 to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, 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. 55 distinct organizations, with 10% 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. 77% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 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 $23,453. Half of what it reported fell between $12,311 and $35,629; the smallest was $5,233 and the largest $163,565. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Way Inc Dba United Way of Central & Northeastern Ct | Hartford, CT | $403,176 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Safe Haven of Greater Waterbury Inc | Waterbury, CT | $262,350 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Waterbury Youth Services | Waterbury, CT | $225,789 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc | Danbury, CT | $218,794 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Way of Southington Inc | Southington, CT | $196,055 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities Inc Archdiocese of Hartford | Hartford, CT | $193,644 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Salvation Army | West Nyack, NY | $182,092 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Way of Rhode Island Inc | Providence, RI | $172,639 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Wellmore Inc | Waterbury, CT | $154,902 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc | Boston, MA | $115,491 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Way of Westchester and Putnam Inc | White Plains, NY | $114,429 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Way of Connecticut | Rocky Hill, CT | $96,609 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Waterbury Young Mens Christian Association | Waterbury, CT | $93,786 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Way of Sheboygan County Inc | Sheboygan, WI | $88,006 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $85,744 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Waterbury Inc | Waterbury, CT | $83,454 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mental Health Connecticut Inc | Farmington, CT | $82,257 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries Inc | Waterbury, CT | $77,761 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Way of Meriden and Wallingford Inc | Meriden, CT | $73,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Staywell Health Care Inc | Waterbury, CT | $63,444 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Way of Greater New Haven Inc | New Haven, CT | $63,224 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Way of New York City | New York, NY | $60,417 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Connecticut Community Foundation Inc | Waterbury, CT | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Middlesex United Way Inc | Middletown, CT | $58,914 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury Inc | Waterbury, CT | $58,888 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United Way of West Central Ct | Bristol, CT | $57,581 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Park Central Inc | Waterbury, CT | $53,088 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Connecticut Legal Services Inc | Middletown, CT | $45,150 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Reach Out and Read Inc | Boston, MA | $43,992 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Waterbury Elementary School PTO Inc | Roselle, IL | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $38,734 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United Way of Naugatuck and Beacon Falls Inc | Naugatuck, CT | $36,413 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc | Hartford, CT | $35,550 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hartford Healthcare at Home Inc | Wethersfield, CT | $31,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Valley United Way Incorporated | Shelton, CT | $30,156 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Housing Collective Inc | Bridgeport, CT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Girl Scouts of Connecticut | Waterbury, CT | $26,340 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Connecticut Counseling Centers Inc | Waterbury, CT | $25,332 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Brian Gibbons Homeless Outreach Inc | Naugatuck, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northwest Regional Workforce | Waterbury, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Way of Coastal Fairfield County | Bridgeport, CT | $24,336 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Children's Community School Inc | Waterbury, CT | $23,763 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Connecticut Association for Human Services Inc | Hartford, CT | $23,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Southington-Cheshire Community Ymcas Inc | Southington, CT | $20,715 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The United Way of Northwest Connecticut Inc | Torrington, CT | $19,279 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Way of Long Island | Deer Park, NY | $19,093 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc | Atlanta, GA | $17,206 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United Way of Northeast Georgia Inc | Athens, GA | $17,053 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Way of Pioneer Valley | Springfiled, MA | $10,987 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Vincent Depaul Mission of Waterbury Inc | Waterbury, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Brass City Harvest Inc | Waterbury, CT | $8,209 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| House of Prayer Church | Waterbury, CT | $6,031 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Way for Southeastern Michigan | Detroit, MI | $5,638 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of Bergen County | Paramus, NJ | $5,587 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Waterbury Baptist Ministries Inc | Waterbury, CT | $5,585 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
41 of 55 (75%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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.
- United Way Mass Bay and Merr Valley
GENERAL USEGENERAL USEGENERAL USE
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 41 of 55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 44 | $1,446,298 | $25,146 |
| 2022 | 52 | $1,547,668 | $21,572 |
| 2023 | 32 | $1,051,817 | $26,817 |
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
75% of its giving went to organizations in Connecticut. 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 $23,453 -- 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 Connecticut.
- 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 Greater Waterburyinc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 46 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: 123 Bank Street 3RD Fl, Waterbury, CT, 06702.
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