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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 FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$66k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$1.7MHousing & Shelter$472kFood & Nutrition$220kCommunity Improvement$128kPublic Safety & Disaster$101kEducation$87kHealth$78kEmployment$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $301,501, the rows itemized in this filing. The $483,307 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $181,806 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
$18,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY - EAST STROUDSBURG$66,258
SAFE MONROE$34,445
RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC$33,000
POCONO AREA TRANSITIONAL HOUSING$27,798
COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE - LEHIGH VALLEY (CACLV)$21,000
MONROE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS$18,000
MONROE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$18,000
THE GROWING PLACE$16,000
POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN$16,000
PLEASANT VALLEY ECUMENICAL NETWORK (PVEN)$14,000
POCONO FAMILY YMCA$13,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE POCONOS$13,500
SIGHTS FOR HOPE$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–25, $970k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%SIGHTS FOR HOPE: $10k → 11%BIG BROTHERBIG SISTER: $11k → 15%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $8k → 22%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE POC MTS: $23k → 14%SIGHTS FOR HOPE: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC SERVICES: $10k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE POC MTS: $13k → 14%CENTER FOR VISION LOSS: $10k → 11%CENTER FOR VISION LOSS: $8k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE POCONOS INC: $36k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE: $30k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE - MONROE: $25k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF MONROE COUNTY: $25k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE: $15k → 12%POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES: $62k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE POCONOS: $14k → 12%POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES: $62k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE: $14k → 12%POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES: $54k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE POCONOS: $14k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE POCONOS: $13k → 12%POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES: $40k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE POCONOS: $13k → 12%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $33k → 12%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $32k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE: $12k → 12%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $31k → 12%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $24k → 12%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $24k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE POCONOS: $12k → 12%POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN: $16k → 12%POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN: $14k → 12%POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN: $10k → 12%POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN: $10k → 12%SAFE MONROE: $35k → 12%SAFE MONROE: $34k → 12%WOMEN'S RESOURCES: $30k → 12%WOMEN'S RESOURCES: $29k → 12%SAFE MONROE: $29k → 12%WOMEN'S RESOURCES OF MONROE COUNTY: $29k → 12%WOMEN'S RESOURCES: $24k → 12%WOMEN'S RESOURCES: $23k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 18 repeat orgs$450k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

$2.4M
$450k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+32%

Still filing today

83%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PS
    POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN INCORPORATED
    8× · 2018–2025 · $267k · revenue +16%
  • TG
    THE GROWING PLACE CTR FOR CARE AND LEARN OF SALEM-ST PAUL
    8× · 2018–2025 · $236k · revenue +31%
  • WR
    WOMEN'S RESOURCES OF MONROE CTY INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $233k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • VC
    VARIOUS COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2017 · $366k
  • PA
    POCONO ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $34k · revenue -50%
  • NP
    NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2024 · $18k · revenue -32%
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.

1
Family Care Centers Inc

Establish and maintain a medical group consisting of clinicians employed by lehigh valley health network, part of jefferson health. this medical group will fulfill the charitable mission of promoting community health through health…

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2
Pocono Vna-Hospice

Our mission is who we are and what we do: to provide world class care close to home. our vision is what we aim for to best serve our community: to build a healthier community.

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3
Mon Valley Initiative

Mon valley initiative is a regional community development coporation representing communities and stakeholders along the monogahela river and its tributaries in three southwestern pennsylvania counties. mvi is organized into three program…

Community Improvement
4
Pinebrook Family Answers

The agency's mission states "pinebrook family answers nurtures and empowers children, adults and families by providing mental health services and community-based programs throughout the greater lehigh valley. we do this through initiatives…

Human Services
5
Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers

Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers creates and sustains healthy rural communities by providing accessible, high quality medical, dental and behavioral health care for all, while recognizing and addressing other factors that influence…

Health
6
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
7
Families First of Monroe County Inc

As an active member of the monroe county community, families first supports and assists residents through their financial and life challenges with respectful and empowering services.

Community Improvement
8
Punxsutawney Area Hospital Inc

To provide high quality, cost effective, primary health care and to coordinate care for patients requiring secondary and tertiary services.

Health
9
Montgomery County Emergency Service Inc

Mces provides round-the-clock intensive and comprehensive behavioral health services, including an adult inpatient hospital, to all in need in the community. mission: mces provides an array of clinically necessary emergency psychiatric and…

Health
10
Monroe County Sheltercare Inc

To assist at-risk individuals

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11
Maternal & Family Health Services Inc

As a private non-profit health and human services organization, maternal and family health services (mfhs) works to meet the health and nutrition needs of northeastern pennsylvania's women, children, and families with essential…

Health
12
Family Promise Montco Pa

We partner with the community to address hunger & homelessness one family at a time offering emergency shelter & temporary housing,prevention & stabilization programs, a food pantry, and other support services.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of the Poconos Inc; the most unlike its peers is Trust for the Benefit of Minsi Trails Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Salvation Army: $451,981 · OtherThe Salvation ArmyVARIOUS COMMUNITY: $366,000 · OtherVARIOUS COMMUNITYMONROE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $122,197 · OtherMONROE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INCCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $117,041 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INCPleasant Valley Ecumenical Network: $110,071 · OtherPleasant Valley Ecumenical NetworkMONROE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $71,500 · Other+4 more: $102,499 · Other+4 morePOCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $266,934 · Human ServicesPOCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND CHILD…WOMEN'S RESOURCES OF MONROE CTY INC: $232,664 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S RESOURCES OF MONROE CTY INCFAMILY PROMISE OF THE POCONOS INC: $156,893 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF THE POCONOS INCResources for Human Development Inc: $152,240 · Human ServicesResources for Human Development IncAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $101,050 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Cons…SIGHTS FOR HOPE: $38,514 · Human Services+1 more: $21,545 · Human ServicesTHE GROWING PLACE CTR FOR CARE AND LEARN OF SALEM-ST PAUL: $236,411 · EducationTHE GROWI…POCONO AREA TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC: $231,445 · Housing & ShelterPOCONO AR…VALOR CLINIC FOUNDATION: $23,720 · HealthNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $17,713 · HealthLEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL - POCONO: $10,000 · HealthST LUKE'S HOSPITAL MONROE CAMPUS: $8,101 · HealthTRUST FOR THE BENEFIT OF MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL: $7,981 · Youth DevelopmentMINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $6,511 · Youth Development
Other$1,341,289Human Services$969,840Education$236,411Housing & Shelter$231,445Health$59,534Youth Development$14,492

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPOCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $266,934 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GROWING PLACE CTR FOR CARE AND LEARN OF SALEM-ST PAUL: $236,411 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetWOMEN'S RESOURCES OF MONROE CTY INC: $232,664 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetPOCONO AREA TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC: $231,445 over 8y, 13% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE POCONOS INC: $156,893 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetResources for Human Development Inc: $152,240 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMONROE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $122,197 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $117,041 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPleasant Valley Ecumenical Network: $110,071 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $101,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMONROE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $71,500 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetSIGHTS FOR HOPE: $38,514 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MONROE COUNTY: $37,422 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPOCONO ALLIANCE INC: $34,101 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetVALOR CLINIC FOUNDATION: $23,720 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC: $21,545 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONROE COUNTY YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICE INC: $19,751 over 2y, 23% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $17,713 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL - POCONO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S HOSPITAL MONROE CAMPUS: $8,101 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUST FOR THE BENEFIT OF MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL: $7,981 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $6,511 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Allone CharitiesThe Lester G Abeloff …Essa Bank & Trust Fou…Ppl FoundationR Dale & Frances M Hu…Pocono Mountains Comm…Mount Airy FoundationMoses Taylor Foundati…Lehigh Valley Communi…Hughes Foundation IncAllone FoundationJohn a and Margaret P…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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