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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.

$183k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Itemized grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$143k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$12,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The United Way of the Shippensburg Area funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$143k10%
FY202412$146k0%
FY202312$141k8%
FY20229$105k33%
FY20217$113k14%
FY202010$157k0%
FY201911$149k18%
FY20189$132k0%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$350kYouth Development$199kHuman Services$198kHealth$152kEducation$151kPublic Safety & Disaster$116kRecreation & Sports$13kHousing & Shelter$11kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of The United Way of the Shippensburg Area by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Shippensburg Produce and Outreach$217,887928%
The Boys and Girls Club of Chambersburg and Shippensburg Inc$198,550911%
Civic Club of Shippensburg$152,000911%
Shippensburg Public Library$150,50092%
Jesus Loves You Ministries Inc$131,8875n/a
Christ Among Neighbors$90,075911%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$55,00040%
Domestic Violence Services of Cumberland & Perry Counties$38,70061%
The Salvation Army$29,0004n/a
Vigilant Hose Company No 1$22,00041%
West End Fire & Rescue Company No 3$22,00041%
Katie's Place of Shippensburg Inc$16,50032%
Cumberland Valley Hose Company No 2$16,50032%
Carlisle Cares$11,0001n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($64k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The United Way of the Shippensburg Area supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShippensburg Produce and Outreach: $217,887 over 9y, 28% of budgetThe Boys and Girls Club of Chambersburg and Shippensburg Inc: $198,550 over 9y, 11% of budgetCivic Club of Shippensburg: $152,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetShippensburg Public Library: $150,500 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetChrist Among Neighbors: $90,075 over 9y, 11% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDomestic Violence Services of Cumberland & Perry Counties: $38,700 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetVigilant Hose Company No 1: $22,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWest End Fire & Rescue Company No 3: $22,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetKatie's Place of Shippensburg Inc: $16,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCumberland Valley Hose Company No 2: $16,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budget

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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 11.

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.

Carl L and Glenda T Cramer Charitable FoundationPA26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carl L and Glenda T Cramer Charitable Foundation · Partnership for Better Health · Stewart Alexander Md Fdn Tr Udeed · Elmer E Naugle Foundation 001531 · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Hosfeld R and M K Memorial Ta · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Amazonsmile 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 The United Way of the Shippensburg Area

How much does The United Way of the Shippensburg Area give?
The United Way of the Shippensburg Area reported 10 itemized grants totaling $143,000, out of $182,730 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The United Way of the Shippensburg Area fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (29%), Youth Development (16%), Human Services (16%).
Who are The United Way of the Shippensburg Area's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Shippensburg Produce and Outreach ($218k), The Boys and Girls Club of Chambersburg and Shippensburg Inc ($199k), Civic Club of Shippensburg ($152k).
Does The United Way of the Shippensburg Area fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The United Way of the Shippensburg Area?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carl L and Glenda T Cramer Charitable Foundation, Partnership for Better Health, Stewart Alexander Md Fdn Tr Udeed.
Where is The United Way of the Shippensburg Area based?
The United Way of the Shippensburg Area is based in PA.

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 17 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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