· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| VIGILANT HOSE COMPANY NO 1 | $5,500 |
| KATIE'S PLACE IN SHIPPENSBURG | $5,500 |
| WEST END FIRE AND RESCUE COMPANY | $5,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The United Way of the Shippensburg Area funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The United Way of the Shippensburg Area. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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