· Public charity
The United Way of the Shippensburg Area
THE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREA is a unified fund raising organization which solicites charitable donations from the public and distributes such funds to the various charitable, civic, and social welfare organizations of the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $143,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $182,730 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $39,730 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE OUTREACH | $40,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHAMBERSBURG & | $25,000 |
| SHIPPENSBURG COMMUNITY NURSE | $17,500 |
| SHIPPENSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY | $14,500 |
| CHRIST AMONG NEIGHBORS | $12,500 |
| CARLISLE CARES | $11,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES | $6,000 |
| KATIE'S PLACE IN SHIPPENSBURG | $5,500 |
| VIGILANT HOSE COMPANY NO 1 | $5,500 |
| WEST END FIRE AND RESCUE COMPANY | $5,500 |
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, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- SPSHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE AND OUTREACH9× · 2017–2025 · $218k · revenue +672% · 28% of their budget
- TBTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHAMBERSBURG AND SHIPPENSBURG INC9× · 2017–2025 · $199k · revenue +228%
- CCCIVIC CLUB OF SHIPPENSBURG9× · 2017–2025 · $152k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- CCCARLISLE CARESgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $11k · revenue +262%
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.
Fire fighting services
Fire fighting, rescue and other emergency services
Volunteer fire fighting
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
We are a volunteer fire company and EMS service to our community. Founded in 1959, our organizations serves over 4,000 homes.
Volunteer Fire Company
Fire & Rescue Company
To protect the lives and property of the citizens and visitors of Hampden-Sydney and surrounding counties as requested.
Volunteer firefighting and emergency services
Firefighting services.
Volunteer firefighting
To provide quality fire fighting and emergency services to general public as well as education on fire prevention.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carlisle Cares and the most unlike its peers is Domestic Violence Services of Cumberland & Perry Counties. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 SHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE AND OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHAMBERSBURG AND SHIPPENSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC CLUB OF SHIPPENSBURG ↗
- Who funds SHIPPENSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CHRIST AMONG NEIGHBORS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND & PERRY COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds Vigilant Hose Company No 1 ↗
- Who funds WEST END FIRE & RESCUE COMPANY NO 3 ↗
- Who funds KATIE'S PLACE OF SHIPPENSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds Cumberland Valley Hose Company No 2 ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE CARES ↗
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.
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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 The United Way of the Shippensburg Area 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.