How much does United Way of Bradford County give?

United Way of Bradford County reported 26 itemized grants totaling $386,000, out of $515,561 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Bradford County fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Youth Development (12%), Education (11%).

Who are United Way of Bradford County's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Salvation Army ($249k), Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Twin Tiers ($221k), The River Valley Regional YMCA ($213k).

Does United Way of Bradford County fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Bradford County?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc, Kenneth and Caroline Taylor Family Foundation, Firstenergy Foundation.

Where is United Way of Bradford County based?

United Way of Bradford County is based in PA.

United Way of Bradford County

United Way of Bradford County at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

United Way of Bradford County

To empower our neighbors to foster a healthy community through education, collaboration, advocacy and mobilization of resources

$516k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

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$878kYouth Development$482kEducation$429kArts & Culture$417kPublic Safety & Disaster$296kAnimals$263kEmployment$255kHealth$229kOther$0

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 26 grants below total $386,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $515,561 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $129,561 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

Under $10k8 grants · $59k
$10k–50k18 grants · $327k

$12,500

Median grant

States reached

$980k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
RIVER VALLEY REGIONAL YMCA - BRADFORD COUNTY BRANCH	$30,000
AREA AGENCY ON AGING	$25,000
THE SALVATION ARMY - SAYRE	$25,000
CHILDREN HUNGER OUTREACH PROGRAM	$25,000
THE CHILDREN'S HOUSE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER	$25,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TWIN TIERS	$25,000
ENDLESS MOUNTAIN MISSION CENTER	$20,000
GRACE CONNECTION	$20,000
BRIDGE OF PENN YORK VALLEY CHURCHES	$20,000
BRADFORD WYOMING CO LITERACY PROGRAM	$18,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$15,000
PENN YORK OPPORTUNITIES	$15,000
BRADFORD COUNTY ACTION	$12,500
ANIMAL CARE SANCTUARY	$11,000
ABUSE RAPE CRISIS CENTER	$10,500

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $484k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.7M · 41 repeat orgs$224k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.7M

$224k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

Still filing today

71%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationAnimalsHealthEmploymentOther

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

TR
THE RIVER VALLEY REGIONAL YMCA
8× · 2017–2025 · $213k · revenue +56%
TC
The Childrens House
8× · 2017–2025 · $197k · revenue +61%
BC
BRADFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
8× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +235%

Funded once

OG
OTHER GRANTS 5000 & UNDER
one grant, 2021 · $167k
PS
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2017 · $21k
NF
NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP
one grant, 2021 · $10k

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.

Bradford Area Public Library

To provide the resources to inform, educate, and enrich our community in a way that demonstrates literacy, equal access and diversity, life-long learning, fiscal responsibility and integrity.

Education

Baldwin Borough Public Library

The mission of the Baldwin Borough Public Library is to provide easily accessible materials, services, and facilities to help the members of our diverse community successfully meet their evolving personal needs.

Education

Barre Library Association

Maintain and operate a free public library

Education

Adamstown Area Library

The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…

Education

Palmerton Area Library Association

Operate a public library

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Warren Library Association

The mission of the warren library association is to provide all citizens in its service area access to library materials and information services which address the needs and expand the aspirations of the community for formal and lifelong…

—

Mary S Biesecker Public Libary

The mission of the mary s. biesecker public library is to provide informational and recreational materials for the people of the community. provide books, programs, library services, and computer access to the public.

Education

Butler Area Public Library

To provide the citizens of butler county with various library services, including lending books, research information, public use of periodicals, and computer services.

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Franklin County Library System

The mission of the franklin county library system is to enrich the lives of the residents of the region through access to materials, information, and services imparting the knowledge, experience, and wisdom of others, through qualified…

Education

Brentwood Library

Public library operation in Brentwood Borough, PA

—

Osterhout Free Library

To provide free public library services to the community at its main location and three branches located in plains and wilkes-barre, pa

—

Hellertown Area Library Association

The hellertown area library promotes life-long learning by providing free and equal access to quality service and collections.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bradford County Action Inc; the most unlike its peers is French Azilum Inc. 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

34 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. 34 of the 49 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/34

Grantees still filing

22/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,508,215Human Services$484,000Animals$262,979Arts & Culture$224,674Health$167,000Food & Nutrition$102,500Employment$90,584Education$88,277

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.

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.

Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation IncNY34.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc · Kenneth and Caroline Taylor Family Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Newman W Benson Foundation · Tuscarora Wayne Mutual Foundation · Bradford County Tourism Promotion Agency · Ballard Angels Inc · Allone Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Allone Charities · Rekindle the Spirit · Newman W and Patricia a Benson Charitable 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 United Way of Bradford County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Bradford County. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home