How much does Centre County United Way give?

Centre County United Way reported 23 grants totaling $900,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Centre County United Way fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Health (24%), Education (20%).

Who are Centre County United Way's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Centre County Youth Service Bureau ($1.0M), Young Men's Christian Association of Centre County ($881k), ON DRUGS Inc ($783k).

Does Centre County United Way fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Centre County United Way?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Centre Foundation Inc, The Hamer Foundation, Northwest Charitable Foundation.

Where is Centre County United Way based?

Centre County United Way is based in PA.

Centre County United Way

Centre County United Way at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$900k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$115k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$3.1MHealth$2.2MEducation$1.8MHousing & Shelter$548kPublic Safety & Disaster$397kFood & Nutrition$368kYouth Development$330kCrime & Legal$292kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $21k
$10k–50k12 grants · $287k
$50k–250k8 grants · $586k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Centre County United Way’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Centre County United Waylessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.2M · 34 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.2M

$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+21%

Still filing today

85%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthEducationCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

CC
CENTRE COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU
8× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +18%
YM
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRE COUNTY
8× · 2017–2025 · $881k · revenue +19%
OD
ON DRUGS Inc
8× · 2017–2025 · $783k · revenue +199% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

RH
RISING HOPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTR
one grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue -18%
CC
CENTRE CARE INC
one grant, 2025 · $8k · revenue +21%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Center for Community Resources Inc

To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…

Health

Chamber of Business & Industry of Centre

To promote the well-being and growth of commerce, business and industry, while striving to maintain a high quality of life in centre county.

Community Improvement

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.

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Center for Community Action

The center for community action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of the…

Housing & Shelter

Centre Foundation Inc

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,…

Philanthropy

Centre County Historical Society

Our mission is to discover, collect, preserve, interpret, educate, advocate, present, and promote the county's history and culture.

Arts & Culture

Thrive Cil

The mission of the center for independent living of central pennsylvania is to eliminate and prevent barriers that people with disabilities experience.

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Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce

To promote successful business activity in the central bucks county, pa area.

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Center in the Woods Inc

The center in the woods' mission is to provide the highest quality of life for older adults in southwestern pennsylvania.

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Community Counseling Center of Mercer County

To help individuals and families lead healthy and fulfilling lives.

Health

Craftsbury Community Care Center

Residential care home for elderly and handicapped.

Human Services

Community Basics Inc

Develop and manage high-quality affordable housing in central pa and the surrounding area.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centre County Youth Service Bureau; 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.

05the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/32

Grantees still filing

24/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,620,798Human Services$3,609,111Health$947,043Housing & Shelter$543,225Education$409,303Crime & Legal$84,411Youth Development$32,652Employment$7,781

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Centre Foundation IncPA57.4× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Centre County United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Centre County United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home