Agency HQ

Agency HQ is your one-stop-shop for funding updates and new opportunities.

Impact Investing and Funding Opportunities

United Way offers three tiers of funding opportunities to support local nonprofits with a proven ability to meet the community’s needs and make a lasting, important impact in our region. If you would like to be notified of new funding opportunities, please sign up here.

Safety Net

Our largest funding pool supporting a network of over 160 nonprofit organizations providing direct services across our 16-county service area. They address needs identified in the Community Needs Assessment (CNA) and in support of our five impact pillars.

Systems

We use a systems change approach where we seek to understand and raise awareness of the most needed services and resources, and mobilize the community to address identified needs on three levels; individual, agency, and community.

View our Systems Change Agencies

Behavioral Health Network ($100,000)
Jefferson County Community Partnership ($100,000)
Early Learning Partnership and Youth Development ($100,000)
St. Clair County Youth Coalition ($100,000)

Targeted

As emergent, emergency or crisis support is needed in our community, United Way supports programs and organizations to help meet those needs through targeted fundraising and one-time grantmaking efforts. 

View our Targeted Funded Agencies

Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders ($60,303)
Avenues Counseling Center ($35,000)
COCA – Center for Creative Arts ($40,000)
Community Link ($26,400)
Cornerstone Corporation ($43,559)
Crime Victims Advocacy ($30,840)
Crisis Food Center ($26,271)
Eye Thrive ($25,000)
Flance Management, Inc ($35,000)
Girls in the Know ($30,000)
Haven Recovery Gives Back ($48,961)
HOME WORKS – THVP ($30,000)
Join Hands ESL, Inc. ($60,000)
Life House Youth Center ($35,000)
Macoupin Center for the Developmentally Disabled ($40,000)
Mental Health Association of St. Louis ($25,000)
Mentors in Motion ($25,000)
Metro East St. Louis Community Initiative (MESCI) ($30,000)
Operation Blessing, People that Care, Inc. ($26,000)
Seed Saint Louis, Inc. ($20,124)
Springboard to Learning, Inc. ($45,000)
St. Clair County Child Advocacy Center ($40,000)
St. Louis Artworks ($40,000)
St. Mary’s Special Services for Exceptional Children ($35,000)
STL Youth Jobs ($25,000)
The Favored Foundation for Strengthening Families ($35,000)
The Fit and Food Connection ($20,125)
The Sinai Family Life Center ($15,300)
Variety the Children’s Charity of St. Louis ($50,000)

Other United Way Programs

Log Assistance Portal for Energy and Other Assistance

Emergency Food & Shelter Program

100 Neediest Cases