United Way awards a single, unrestricted grant to organizations that are selected for community impact funding. To ensure that United Way leaders understand and communicate effectively about the impact of that investment, United Way also collects a limited amount of
programmatic data from applicant organizations. Specifically, you are asked to complete a
program demographic form for your organization’s top three programs (or 1 or 2, if you have
fewer than three) and provide participant demographic data for each. In this form, you are
asked to provide a brief description of the program and select up to two program categories
with which the program aligns. The categories appear in a drop-down menu in the program
demographic form.
Categories funded in 2025:
Improving Childcare Access or Quality
Access to Healthcare and Supportive Services
Aging and Senior Support Services
Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse Intervention & Treatment
Maternal, Family and/or Child Welfare
TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONS NOT FUNDED BY UNITED WAY
United Way does not provide grants to the following types of organizations, which are
outside the core health and human service focus. This list is provided to clarify the health
and human service focus of United Way’s grantmaking.
1. Animal welfare organizations
2. Environmental organizations that do not have a human service, socioeconomic or racial
equity focus
3. Museums, arts and cultural organizations
4. Entrepreneurship or small business, without a primary focus on low/moderate-income or
disenfranchised populations
5. Medical research organizations that do not provide direct healthcare services
6. Journalism, news reporting and media organizations
7. Organizations whose primary focus is grantmaking or scholarships
8. Schools—both K-12 district, charter, and private schools, as well as colleges and
universities
9. Religious organizations, except those offering health and human service programming
that do not include religious content, limit services to those of a certain faith, or require
participation in religious or spiritual activities
*Application must be submitted by March 15, 2025 at 11:59pm.
