Funding search · EIN 580566194 · Atlanta, GA

United Way of Greater Atlanta

Name: United Way of Greater Atlanta grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

1,096
grants reported: $176.5M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $50,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Homelessness and rehousing services across metro Atlanta
Early childhood care, literacy and child care provider capacity
K-12 school partnerships and student success in Atlanta-area districts
Family stability supports: domestic violence, food, furniture, rent assistance
Workforce training and youth development for low-income families

Typical grant

Median grant is $50,000, with the middle half between $25,000 and $90,802. The very large checks, from roughly $500,000 to $4.8 million, go to a small set of housing intermediaries and early learning anchors like Frontline Housing, Atlanta Speech School, Quality Care for Children and Partners for Home, which look like flow-through or long-term partnership relationships. With 1,096 grants to 534 recipients over four years, most organizations receive support in more than one year, so repeat funding is the norm rather than the exception.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“GENERAL SUPPORT”
“early care and learning”
“family connection”
“community development”
“youth”

Positioning adjacent work

Tie the work to child well-being or housing stability in specific metro Atlanta counties, not statewide abstractions.
Ask in the $50,000 to $125,000 band for a first grant; seven-figure asks go to established intermediaries.
University-based applicants should look at the $80,000 to $87,500 GSU and UGA research grants as the realistic ceiling.
Frame the request as general operating support tied to a named community outcome, since every grant is coded that way.

Worth knowing: This is overwhelmingly a metro Atlanta funder: 1,046 of 1,096 grants went to Georgia recipients, and the out-of-state ones are national early-literacy partners like Reach Out and Read and Jumpstart. A handful of housing and early learning organizations absorb a large share of total dollars, so the practical opportunity for a newcomer is the $25,000 to $100,000 tier, and getting there generally means being known to their community impact staff first.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Marine Toys for Tots Foundation1 grant · $12.1M
Frontline Housing4 grants · $12.0M
Atlanta Speech School4 grants · $11.9M
Invest Atlanta- Open for Business2 grants · $11.8M
Invest Atlanta Partnership1 grant · $7.8M
Quality Care for Children4 grants · $6.2M
The Community Restoration Project Corp4 grants · $6.1M
Early Learning Property Management4 grants · $4.8M
Partners for Home4 grants · $3.3M
Atlanta Public Schools4 grants · $3.1M

Giving over time

$60.9M

2021

$38.3M

2022

$41.0M

2023

$36.4M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,096 grants.

$12.1M
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation · Triangle, VA · 2021
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$7.8M
Invest Atlanta Partnership · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$5.9M
Invest Atlanta- Open for Business · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
$5.9M
Invest Atlanta- Open for Business · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General support
$5.1M
Atlanta Speech School · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$4.8M
Frontline Housing · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$3.4M
Frontline Housing · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
$3.0M
Atlanta Speech School · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
$2.5M
Atlanta Speech School · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$2.4M
Frontline Housing · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General support
$2.2M
Atlanta Public Schools · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$1.9M
The Community Restoration Project Corp · Fairburn, GA · 2022
General support
$1.7M
Careerrise · Atlanta, GA · 2022
'transfer of agency assets as careerrise became a separate 501c3
$1.7M
Quality Care for Children · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$1.7M
Housing Plus · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$1.7M
Partners for Home · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$1.7M
Quality Care for Children · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
$1.6M
Marietta Schools Foundation - · Marietta, GA · 2021
General support
$1.6M
The Community Restoration Project Corp · Fairburn, GA · 2021
General support
$1.6M
Early Learning Property Management · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$1.5M
Early Learning Property Management · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
$1.5M
The Community Restoration Project Corp · College Park, GA · 2023
General support
$1.4M
Kipp Metro Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$1.4M
Quality Care for Children · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General support
$1.4M
Frontline Housing · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$1.4M
Quality Care for Children · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$1.3M
Atlanta Speech School · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General support
$1.2M
The Community Restoration Project Corp · College Park, GA · 2024
General support
$1.2M
Partners for Home · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$1.1M
Marietta Schools Foundation · Marietta, GA · 2024
General support
$1.1M
Early Learning Property Management · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General support
$1.1M
Kipp Metro Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$975,857
Crossroads Community Ministries · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$948,000
Marietta Schools Foundation · Marietta, GA · 2023
General support
$931,800
Ymca of Metropolitan Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General support
$927,000
Wellstar Foundation · Marietta, GA · 2023
General support
$838,000
Wellstar Foundation · Marietta, GA · 2021
General support
$793,768
Zaban Paradies Center · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$751,500
Ymca of Metropolitan Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
$736,033
Homes of Light Llc · Tucker, GA · 2021
General support
$715,940
Homes of Light Llc · Tucker, GA · 2024
General support
$715,725
Single Parent Alliance & Resource Center · Norcross, GA · 2021
General support
$711,250
The Gateway Center · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
$691,250
Ymca of Metropolitan Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$677,661
Crossroads Community Ministries · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$650,000
Ymca of Metropolitan Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$650,000
Easter Seals of North Georgia · Clarkston, GA · 2023
General support
$650,000
Early Learning Property Management · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$633,000
Single Parent Alliance & Resource Center · Norcross, GA · 2022
General support
$594,000
Geears (Ga Early Education Alliance for · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$593,000
Geears (Ga Early Education Alliance for Ready Students) · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$585,572
Crossroads Community Ministries · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
$573,000
Geears (Ga Early Education Alliance for Ready Students) · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
$566,950
Crossroads Community Ministries · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General support
$549,500
Kipp Metro Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
$544,800
Single Parent Alliance & Resource Center · Norcross, GA · 2024
General support
$543,000
Geears (Ga Early Education Alliance for · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General support
$533,250
Sheltering Arms Georgia · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General support
$531,000
Grady Health Systems · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$527,000
Sheltering Arms Georgia · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$526,460
Fayette County Council On Domestic Violence · Fayetteville, GA · 2024
General support
$524,000
St Vincent De Paul Society · Chamblee, GA · 2023
General support
$517,500
The Ga Foundation for Early Care and Learning · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General support
$500,000
Scottdale Early Learning · Scottdale, GA · 2023
General support
$493,046
Zaban Paradies Center · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General support
$488,444
Housing Plus · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General support
$488,000
St Vincent De Paul Society · Chamblee, GA · 2024
General support
$485,977
Step Up On Second Street · Santa Monica, CA · 2021
General support
$480,750
Sheltering Arms Georgia · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
$475,000
The Ga Foundation for Early Care and Learning · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$471,125
Intown Collaborative Ministrie · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$462,848
Homes of Light Llc · Tucker, GA · 2023
General support
$450,000
Grady Health Systems · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
$442,000
Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
$440,000
Single Parent Alliance & Resource Center · Norcross, GA · 2023
General support
$440,000
Gateway Center · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$440,000
Learn4life · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$413,001
Project Community Connections · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$362,500
The Ga Foundation for Early Care and Learning · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
$355,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro a · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$340,000
Multi-Agency Alliance for Children · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$337,500
Grady Health Systems · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$335,500
St Vincent De Paul Society · Chamblee, GA · 2022
General support
$332,072
Homes of Light Llc · Tucker, GA · 2022
General support
$329,200
Black Child Development Institute I · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$313,000
Learn4life · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
$310,000
The Ga Foundation for Early Care and Learning · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$310,000
Leading To Movement · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General support
$305,000
Atlanta Public Schools · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$305,000
Atlanta Public Schools · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
$305,000
Atlanta Public Schools · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General support
$300,000
Adaptive Learning Center · Kennesaw, GA · 2023
General support
$293,000
Sheltering Arms Georgia · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support
$292,500
Mary Hall Freedom House · Sandy Springs, GA · 2021
General support
$290,164
Partners for Home · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General support
$289,500
Learn4life · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$281,667
Polyanna'S Place · College Park, GA · 2024
General support
$276,000
Gateway Center · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$260,000
Gwinnett Housing Corporation · Lawrenceville, GA · 2022
General support
$256,468
Buckhead Christian Ministry · Atlanta, GA · 2021
General support

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.