United Way of Unicoi County

Analysis

United Way of Unicoi County is a registered charity in United States, based in Erwin, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2025. 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, United Way of Unicoi County reported income of $159k and spending of $156k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $136k to $159k (+17%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 96% 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 Way of Unicoi County sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 49th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Whitestown Parks Foundation Inc ($159k), Our House Ministries Inc ($160k) and Irish Educational Foundation Inc ($159k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $365k against liabilities of $143k, net assets of $222k.