How much does Pocono Mountains United Way give?

Pocono Mountains United Way reported 13 itemized grants totaling $301,501, out of $483,307 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Pocono Mountains United Way fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (61%), Housing & Shelter (17%), Food & Nutrition (8%).

Who are Pocono Mountains United Way's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Salvation Army ($452k), Pocono Services for Families and Children Incorporated ($267k), The Growing Place Ctr for Care and Learn of Salem-St Paul ($236k).

Does Pocono Mountains United Way fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Pocono Mountains United Way?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Allone Charities, The Lester G Abeloff Foundation, Essa Bank & Trust Foundation.

Where is Pocono Mountains United Way based?

Pocono Mountains United Way is based in PA.

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Pennsylvania · Public charity

Pocono Mountains United Way

POCONO MOUNTAINS UNITED WAY's mission is to engage and mobilize resources to improve lives through accelerated community change.

$483k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 13
Itemized grants FY2025: 15
Organizations funded FY2024: 7%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $302k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $18,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $66,258
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 18; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $4.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Pocono Mountains United Way funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% 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 ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	13	$302k	0%
FY2024	15	$403k	7%
FY2023	12	$300k	0%
FY2022	13	$307k	0%
FY2021	11	$287k	18%
FY2020	9	$219k	0%
FY2019	18	$321k	22%
FY2018	17	$349k	100%

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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.7MHousing & Shelter$472kFood & Nutrition$220kCommunity Improvement$128kPublic Safety & Disaster$101kEducation$87kHealth$78kEmployment$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Salvation Army	$451,981	8	n/a
Pocono Services for Families and Children Incorporated	$266,934	8	1%
The Growing Place Ctr for Care and Learn of Salem-St Paul	$236,411	8	1%
Women's Resources of Monroe Cty Inc	$232,664	8	2%
Pocono Area Transitional Housing Inc	$231,445	8	13%
Family Promise of the Poconos Inc	$156,893	7	8%
Resources for Human Development Inc	$152,240	6	0%
Monroe County Meals on Wheels Inc	$122,197	8	2%
Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley Inc	$117,041	6	0%
Pleasant Valley Ecumenical Network	$110,071	7	2%

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All grantees of Pocono Mountains United Way by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Salvation Army	$451,981	8	n/a
Pocono Services for Families and Children Incorporated	$266,934	8	1%
The Growing Place Ctr for Care and Learn of Salem-St Paul	$236,411	8	1%
Women's Resources of Monroe Cty Inc	$232,664	8	2%
Pocono Area Transitional Housing Inc	$231,445	8	13%
Family Promise of the Poconos Inc	$156,893	7	8%
Resources for Human Development Inc	$152,240	6	0%
Monroe County Meals on Wheels Inc	$122,197	8	2%
Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley Inc	$117,041	6	0%
Pleasant Valley Ecumenical Network	$110,071	7	2%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$101,050	7	0%
Monroe County Habitat for Humanity	$71,500	5	4%
Sights for Hope	$38,514	4	1%
Young Mens Christian Association of Monroe County	$37,422	4	1%
Pocono Alliance Inc	$34,101	1	3%
Valor Clinic Foundation	$23,720	2	4%
Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton Inc	$21,545	2	0%
Monroe County Youth Employment Service Inc	$19,751	2	23%
Nurse-Family Partnership	$17,713	1	0%
Stroud Region Open Space & Rec Commission	$11,225	2	n/a
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Pocono	$10,000	1	0%
St Luke's Hospital Monroe Campus	$8,101	1	0%
Trust for the Benefit of Minsi Trails Council	$7,981	1	3%
Minsi Trails Council #502 Boy Scouts of America	$6,511	1	0%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($366k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pocono Mountains United Way supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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.

Allone CharitiesPA28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Allone Charities · The Lester G Abeloff Foundation · Essa Bank & Trust Foundation · Ppl Foundation · R Dale & Frances M Hughes Fdn 47f100011 · Pocono Mountains Community Challenge Foundation Inc · Mount Airy Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Hughes Foundation Inc · Allone Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation

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.

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About Pocono Mountains United Way

How much does Pocono Mountains United Way give?: Pocono Mountains United Way reported 13 itemized grants totaling $301,501, out of $483,307 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Pocono Mountains United Way fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (61%), Housing & Shelter (17%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
Who are Pocono Mountains United Way's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Salvation Army ($452k), Pocono Services for Families and Children Incorporated ($267k), The Growing Place Ctr for Care and Learn of Salem-St Paul ($236k).
Does Pocono Mountains United Way fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pocono Mountains United Way?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Allone Charities, The Lester G Abeloff Foundation, Essa Bank & Trust Foundation.
Where is Pocono Mountains United Way based?: Pocono Mountains United Way is based in PA.