United Way of King County

Covid response & rental assistance: as a result of the covid-19 pandemic, the organization has received significant government funding to provide rental assistance. More than 7,000 households received rental assistance providing up to 9 months of back rent and 3 months forward rent to keep families in their homes. The organization continued to fund and operate its core programs designed to build a community where people have homes, students graduate, and families are financially stable, funded by private donations. The organization also continued to support the black community building fund and the indigenous communities fund which puts the decision-making power for investing the funds into the hands of the communities impacted by those funding decisions.

Students graduate early learning: more than 1,000 families were engaged in the parentchild+, a two-year home visiting program that prepares low-income children ages 2-4 to be ready to learn when they enter kindergarten and their parents to be their first and best teachers. Participants are thirty percentage points more likely to graduate high school.

Financial stability: United Way's free tax prep campaign came back to in-person service this year. 340 volunteers filed 6,350 tax returns maximizing tax credits to bring low-income households more than $11 million in returns. Our home grocery delivery program brought culturally specific boxes of food to 6,000 households every week to fight hunger, distributing more than 5.5 million pounds of food. United Way also helped more than seventy-five school districts implement breakfast after the bell providing more than 49,000 additional students school breakfasts.

Supporting youth achievements - other programs include bridge to finish helping community college students persist to graduation. 12,000 interventions were provided to students. Interventions include emergency needs grants, financial counseling, access to food and more.

Ending homelessness - homelessness is a crisis in our community, with more than 12,000 people on any given night living on the streets, in their cars or in emergency shelters. United Way of King County focuses on income and housing to make the most impact on our county-wide crisis. We believe that every person deserves a safe place to call home. Our achievements home base program provided $40 million in rental assistance to help more than 20,000 people remain housed.

Donor designations - contributions that are designated to nonprofit organizations other than United Way of King County.