· Public charity
United Way of Boyertown Area
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community and to conduct efficient community wide fundraising which helps meet the communitys critical human health and service needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $199,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $204,746 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,496 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k10 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boyertown Multi-Service Inc | $62,000 |
| Salvation Army of Boyertown | $39,000 |
| Creative Health Services | $25,000 |
| Foundatiuon for Boyertown Education | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Gilbertsville Ambulance Association | $11,000 |
| Boyertown Area School District | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Visiting Nurse Association of Potts | $4,000 |
| Berks Visiting Nurse Association | $4,000 |
| Helping Hands Inc | $3,000 |
| Hawk Mountain Council - Boy Scouts | $1,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Eastern Pa | $500 |
| Bally Community Center | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
29 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2021, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- BABOYERTOWN AREA MULTI-SERVICE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +105%
- CHCREATIVE HEALTH SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +41%
- HHHELPING HANDS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $12k
- BABOYERTOWN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
The mission of Bethel Community Ambulance is to serve their community to the absolute best of their abilities, providing excellent care with progressive training and equipment.
Community ambulance service serving residents in the greater bloomsburg, pennsylvania area
Emergency medical services including rescue and ambulance services are provided within the Bolton Emergency Medical Services district located in the Town of Bolton, NY
Provides emergency medical service and transportation to the general public primarily in butler county, pennsylvania.
Ambulance service
Freehold ems provides emergency medical services to the residents and visitors of freehold boro and freehold township. their volunteer membership responds to 9-1-1 calls all year round providing basic energency life support and ambulance…
The corps provides ambulance and rescue services for blairstown township and surrounding communities.
The association operates an emergency ambulance service provided for the residents of ebensburg, pa and surrounding area without regards to ability to pay.
Operation of a fire company that provides residents of bethlehem township and surrounding municipalities with fire suppression, rescue, and emergency medical services.
The organization provides emergency medical service and ambulance transportation to individuals in the berlin pennsylvania area.
To provide management services to related tax-exempt health care entities and to promote community health programs.
Bryn Athyn is a combination Fire and EMS department serving Montgomery and Bucks County.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative Health Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Happy 2 Be Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 32 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 BOYERTOWN AREA MULTI-SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BOYERTOWN EDUCATION BOYERTOWN AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOWER HEALTH AT HOME FKA TOWER HEALTH AT HOME - BERKS ↗
- Who funds BOYERTOWN LIONS COMMUNITY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds GILBERTSVILLE AREA COMMUNITY AMBULANCE SERVICE ↗
- Who funds TOWER HEALTH AT HOME - POTTSTOWN ↗
- Who funds BALLY COMMUNITY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HAPPY 2 BE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYERTOWN AREA CREATIVE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY PA ↗
- Who funds BOYERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY WELLNESS COUNCIL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Pottstown Regional Community Foundation Fka Pottstown Area Health and Wellness · The Philadelphia Foundation · Berks County Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Aetna Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 United Way of Boyertown 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.
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