· Public charity
Centre County United Way
To improve lives by prioritizing needs and mobilizing human and financial resources to positively impact the education, financial stability, and physical and emotional health of our neighbors.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $287k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $586k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRE COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU | $115,000 |
| CENTRE HELPS | $90,000 |
| CENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $80,000 |
| CENTRE SAFE | $77,500 |
| HOUSING TRANSITIONS INC | $62,000 |
| CHILD DEVELOPMENT & FAMILY COUNCIL | $61,500 |
| THE ARC OF CENTRE COUNTY | $50,000 |
| PARK FOREST DAY NURSERY | $50,000 |
| MID-STATE LITERACY | $48,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE STATE COLLEGE AREA INC | $37,000 |
| EASTER SEALS CENTRAL PA | $33,600 |
| STRAWBERRY FIELDS | $25,000 |
| CENTRE FOR ALTERNATIVES IN COMMUNITY JUSTICE | $23,000 |
| TIDES INC | $22,000 |
| INTERFAITH HUMAN SERVICES | $22,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Centre County United Way’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCCENTRE COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU8× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +18%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRE COUNTY8× · 2017–2025 · $881k · revenue +19%
- ODON DRUGS Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $783k · revenue +199% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- RHRISING HOPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTRone grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue -18%
- CCCENTRE CARE INCone grant, 2025 · $8k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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To improve lives by prioritizing needs and mobilizing human and financial resources to positively impact the education, financial stability, and physical and emotional health of our neighbors.
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Centre foundation formed to receive, hold and administer funds for the benefit of the community. endowment funds generate earnings for grants to local 501(c)(3) organizations for the benefit of arts, humanities, culture, education,…
Our mission is to discover, collect, preserve, interpret, educate, advocate, present, and promote the county's history and culture.
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To promote the well-being and growth of commerce, business and industry, while striving to maintain a high quality of life in centre county.
To help individuals and families lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
To promote successful business activity in the central bucks county, pa area.
Residential care home for elderly and handicapped.
The center in the woods' mission is to provide the highest quality of life for older adults in southwestern pennsylvania.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centre County Youth Service Bureau and the most unlike its peers is Centre Crest Auxiliary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CENTRE COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ON DRUGS Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRE SAFE ↗
- Who funds CENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY COUNCIL OF CENTRE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF CENTRE COUNTY PA INC ↗
- Who funds MID-STATE LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE STATE COLLEGE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds PARK FOREST VILLAGE DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds STRAWBERRY FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BLAIR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Community Alternative In Criminal Justic ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COUNTY LIBRARY AND HISTORICAL MUSUEM ↗
- Who funds TIDES INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF CARE ↗
- Who funds CENTRE CREST AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds Centre HomeCare Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BUCKTAIL COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds STATE COLLEGE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SKILLS OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA ↗
- Who funds CENTREPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COUNTY HOUSING AND LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Bridge of Hope Centre County ↗
- Who funds RISING HOPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTR ↗
- Who funds CENTRE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL OF CENTRE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ANNIE HALENBAKE ROSS LIBRARY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Centre Foundation Inc · The Hamer Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Glenn O and Thelma M Hawbaker Family Foundation · Ferguson Foundation Inc · The Blake and Linda Gall Family Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · The Louis E Silvi Foundation · The Poole Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Network for Good
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Centre County United Way funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.