Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$8,613,749

Total expenses

$7,793,308

Contributions and grants received

$7,028,709

Grants paid

$1,801,360

Program service revenue

$1,523,867

Investment income

$61,118

Other revenue

$55

Total assets, end of year

$4,275,503

Total liabilities, end of year

$851,849

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$3,423,654

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$6,710,646

Management and general expenses

$658,433

Fundraising expenses

$424,229

Program service expenses (Part III)

$6,710,646

Program services were 86.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• United Community's Stepping Stones program provides critical basic needs supportive services to families in need of emergency assistance. Stepping Stones coordinates with Fairfax County to distribute rental assistance for families in need. We also provide emergency assistance for utilities, medical costs, transportation and diapers. Stepping Stones runs seasonal events such as a Thanksgiving food drive, holiday gift drive in December and back-to-school supplies in August. The Emergency Food Distribution program manages a food pantry which provides a wide variety of food assistance on a regular basis. Families living within our service area come to the pantry to receive canned goods, fresh produce, eggs, meat, and more weekly. In addition, we work with a network of volunteers in seven neighborhoods to deliver food directly into communities along the Route 1 corridor.The Family Achievement Program (FAP) provides wrap-around social services to families living below the federal poverty line. Each family is supported by a qualified social worker and may be provided with services such as child care assistance, transportation, job skills training, work experience, job readiness training, and other education and work related expenses.

  Expenses $3,291,569 · Grants $1,777,670

• Sacramento Neighborhood Center and Creekside Village Community Center serve as hubs for 15 local neighborhoods to meet, learn, and grow as neighbors and as a larger community. These centers are places where residents connect with their neighbors, learn to lead, and make changes that strengthen their community, developed by and for local residents. Our SPARK program (Success through Purpose, Achievement, Respect and Knowledge) is a multifaceted youth development program for students in grades 1-12. SPARK provides a safe after-school and summer environment where at-risk youth can receive homework help, learn new skills, and engage in activities that promote leadership and intervention/prevention of negative behaviors. Working with Fairfax County, we provide resources for learning, mentorship, and health screenings to community residents of all ages.United Community sponsors two Community School programs at Walt Whitman Middle School and Mount Vernon Woods Elementary School. We work with teachers to provide students and their families with direct access to the health and social services they need to succeed in and outside of the classroom. We provide students and their families with access to youth and community development programs and community engagement opportunities that promote stronger families and healthier communities.

  Expenses $718,059 · Grants $11,427

• United Community's Healthy Families Fairfax program provides home-based parenting education, health information, community support, and school readiness for parents from pregnancy until the child reaches age three. Family Support Specialists works with families to promote positive parenting, improve child health and development, encourage school readiness, and prevent child abuse and neglect. Early Learning Center (ELC) provides high-quality daycare and childhood education for children ages six weeks to 5 years. All children receive positive classroom experiences that naturally stimulate children's curiosity and development. Children 3 years and older receive free medical, dental and vision screenings. Four- and five-year-olds work in curriculum-based classrooms focused on kindergarten readiness. Parents are supported with parenting education and referrals to appropriate resources.

  Expenses $1,951,490 · Grants $3,473 · Revenue $1,523,867

• United Community's collective impact initiative, COMMUN1TY+, strives to bring people together in a structured way to achieve social change. Working closely with the Fairfax County Opportunity Neighborhood program, COMMUN1TY+ aligns resources and efforts to support communities based on the needs expressed by Mount Vernon residents in order to improve equity and reduce disparities in health, safety, economic strength, child and youth well-being, and neighborhood livability. Residents become leaders by bringing community voice to the forefront of policy and system development impacting Mount Vernon neighborhoods along the Route 1 corridor.

  Expenses $434,898

• Progreso Literacy and Citizenship Center empowers immigrants through education, citizenship services, and immigration assistance services. At Progreso, we open doors for our fellow community members by helping them acquire the skills and resources they need to succeed. We provide semester-long English as a Second Language (ESL) classes for adult learners of all language levels. Progreso is also dedicated to helping those on the path to obtaining US Citizenship, offering citizenship classes that are designed to prepare students for the US Citizenship Exam and Oral Interview. We have an immigration consultant on staff to help clients with immigration-related legal issues including asylum, green cards, temporary protective status, family petitions, and citizenship applications.

  Expenses $314,630 · Grants $8,790

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

15 January 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

202530159349301903

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