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UNITED WAY OF WILKES COUNTY INC

EIN 56-0942846 N WILKESBORO, NC

Revenue 2024
$299,106
Expenses 2024
$316,769

Program services were 71.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T70Z
Classification
1000
Street
910 C ST STE 1

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

UNITED WAY OF WILKES COUNTY IS DEDICATED TO IMPROVING THE LIVES OF OUR CITIZENS BY UNDERWRITING IDENTIFIED PROGRAMS THAT ENHANCE THEIR WELL-BEING THROUGH OUR FIFTEEN PARTNER AGENCIES. THE UNITED WAY OF WILKES COUNTY ANNUALLY IMPACTS OVER 38,000 WILKES COUNTY INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR FAMILIES. COMMUNITY SUPPORT IS CHANNELED INTO TWO CRUCIAL IMPACT AREAS AS IDENTIFIED BY OUR CITIZENS. THOSE AREAS ARE: Hands Up category -Program is designed to assist clients in climbing out of the poverty category and Helping Hands category Program is designed to assist clients who have a crisis situation and help them refrain from falling more or back into that poverty

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF THE UNITED WAY OF WILKES COUNTY IS TO INVOLVE THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY TO IDENTIFY OUR COMMUNITYS NEEDS DEVELOP RESOURCES AND PARTNER WITH PROGRAMS TO MEET THESE NEEDS.

  • FUND DISTRIBUTION: THIS PROGRAM HANDLES ALL EXPENSES RELATED TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS TO 15 OTHER NON-PROFIT AGENCIES INCLUDING RECRUITING AND TRAINING OF VOLUNTEERS AND RELATED MEETINGS. THE PROGRAM PAYS AMOUNTS ALLOCATED AND PROCESSES TRACKS AND PAYS AMOUNTS DESIGNATED. IN ADDITION THE PROGRAM ASSISTS AGENCIES WITH THEIR OUTCOMES BASED MANAGEMENT PROCESS

    Expenses $217,241 · Grants $214,750

  • COMMUNITY PROBLEM SOLVING: PARTICIPATES IN HUMAN SERVICE INITIATIVES IN THE COMMUNITY; FOR EXAMPLE TO ESTABLISH COLLABORATION AMONG AGENCIES TO MEET A COMMUNITY NEED. THIS PROGRAM ALSO HANDLES ALL EXPENSES FOR THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY PROCESS COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT PROCESS VOLUNTEER AND INFORMATION AND REFERRALS TO OTHER NON-PROFIT AGENCIES. WE ALSO PROVIDE 2-1-1 SERVICES AND MANAGE ONE_TIME DONATIONS FROM INDIVIDUALS TO ASSIST RELATED AGENCIES.

    Expenses $9,530 · Grants $5,192

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Kinsley Walker

    former Exec Director-Board Secy

    Total calculated
    $25,492
    From this org
    $25,492
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    32

  • Michelle Bare

    ASST TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karen Worley

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.3

  • Lee Bentley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Petey Horton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Arnold Lakey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Craig Langston

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Evan Handy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erica Harper

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joyce Triplett

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Westley Wood

    PRESDIENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nancy Watson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ernest Coles

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joey Bullis

    EXEC DIRECTOR AND BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    28

  • Rosanna Limon-Reyes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Denna Parsons

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marty Watkins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Aynsley Zulpo

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $299,106
    Expenses
    $316,769
    Contributions
    $260,035
    Grants paid
    $219,942
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $367,727
    Expenses
    $329,343
    Contributions
    $272,200
    Grants paid
    $208,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $320,356
    Expenses
    $356,400
    Contributions
    $317,397
    Grants paid
    $231,378

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $260,474
    Expenses
    $388,016
    Assets (EOY)
    $464,940

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $400,167
    Expenses
    $415,795
    Assets (EOY)
    $598,321

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $436,979
    Expenses
    $415,917
    Assets (EOY)
    $632,958

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $406,727
    Expenses
    $407,323
    Assets (EOY)
    $613,004

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $487,307
    Expenses
    $580,953
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,036,978

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $520,322
    Expenses
    $516,565
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,065,822

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $548,757
    Expenses
    $569,693
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,073,861

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $577,460
    Expenses
    $559,655
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,091,671

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $538,474
    Expenses
    $548,679
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,084,910

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $576,704
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,149,285

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.