United Charitable

Analysis

United Charitable is a registered charity in United States, based in Ashburn, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, United Charitable reported income of $30.2m and spending of $21.0m, leaving 30% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $31.3m to $30.2m (-3.6%), an average of -0.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 113%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, United Charitable sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include United Way of Lee County Inc ($30.0m), Triangle Community Foundation ($30.2m) and Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc ($29.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 70% and program service revenue 2.3% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $380k (1.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.8m. At year end it held assets of $184.4m against liabilities of $933k, net assets of $183.5m. It reported 43 employees.