With every grant, the Western Union Foundation is changing lives, fostering hope and helping to set the world's needy on the path to a brighter future.
Our 2008 financial reports are featured below.
| Unrestricted | Temporarily Restricted |
Total | |
| Support and revenue: | |||
| Amounts raised | 5,608,991 | 2,665,905 | 8,274,896 |
| Less amounts raised for others | (2,246,688) | - | (2,246,688) |
| In-kind contributions | 290,627 | - | 290,627 |
| Special event revenue | 359,443 | - | 359,443 |
| Less Direct expenses | (62,070) | - | (62,070) |
| Total Contribution | 3,950,303 | 2,665,905 | 6,616,208 |
| Interest income | 33,752 | - | 33,752 |
| Net assets released from restrictions due to satisfaction of expenditure restrictions | 2,665,905 | (2,665,905) | |
| Total support and revenue | 6,649,960 | - | 6,649,960 |
| Expenditure | |||
| Program services: | |||
| Grants | 6,262,969 | - | 6,262,969 |
| Grant making | 309,728 | - | 309,728 |
| Total program activities | 6,572,697 | - | 6,572,697 |
| Supporting activities: | |||
| General and administrative | 512,597 | - | 512,597 |
| Fundraising and development | 595,056 | - | 595,056 |
| Total supporting activities | 1,107,653 | - | 1,107,653 |
| Total expenditures | 7,680,350 | - | 7,680,350 |
| Change in net assets | (1,030,390) | - | (1,030,390) |
| Net assets at beginining of year | 1,161,393 | - | 1,161,393 |
| Net assets at end of year | 131,003 | - | 131,003 |