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United Way of Bucks County

UNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.

$222k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$184k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$3.0MHealth$94kFood & Nutrition$57kYouth Development$50kEducation$36kHousing & Shelter$23kPublic Benefit$10kInternational$5k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $184k
$20,820
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL$184,204
ROLLING HARVEST FOOD RESCUE$20,820
ONE HOUSE AT A TIME (OHATT)$17,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME (OHATT): $22k → 7%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $14k → 11%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME (OHATT): $17k → 7%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $407k → 6%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME (OHATT): $12k → 7%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $374k → 6%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $350k → 6%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $5k → 7%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $325k → 6%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $312k → 6%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $306k → 6%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $211k → 6%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $184k → 6%YMCA OF BUCKS COUNTY: $26k → 6%QUILTS FOR KIDS: $5k → 6%IVINS OUTREACH CENTER: $24k → 6%IVINS OUTREACH CENTER: $10k → 6%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF BUCKS COUNTY: $185k → 6%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF BUCKS COUNTY: $100k → 6%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF BUCKS COUNTY: $37k → 6%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF BUCKS COUNTY: $25k → 6%YWCA OF BUCKS COUNTY: $5k → 6%NETWORK OF VICTIM ASSISTANCE (NOVA): $17k → 6%CREDIT COUNSELING CENTER: $18k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 7 repeat orgs$295k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
25

Total granted

$3.0M
$295k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationPublic BenefitInternationalOther

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

  • BC
    BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +168%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF BUCKS COUNTY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $347k · revenue +9%
  • OH
    ONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILD HOME & COMMUNITY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • RC
    RIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +291%
  • LI
    LIBERTAE INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Berks Counseling Center Inc

Berks counseling center (bcc) is a recovery oriented certified community behavioral health center (ccbhc) with an integrated behavioral and physical health model of service delivery. the center provides a holistic approach to a culturally…

Health
2
Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery

See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…

Health
3
Pinebrook Family Answers

The agency's mission states "pinebrook family answers nurtures and empowers children, adults and families by providing mental health services and community-based programs throughout the greater lehigh valley. we do this through initiatives…

Human Services
4
Women Against Abuse Inc

The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…

Human Services
5
Philhaven

Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.

Health
6
The Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…

Health
7
Ch Pennsylvania Under - 21

Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…

Housing & Shelter
8
Community Human Services Corporation

Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.

Human Services
9
Threshold Rehabilitation Services Inc

The mission of threshold, inc. is to enhance the quality of life of persons with disabilities and the economically disadvantaged by providing opportunities to achieve total integration into their community through vocational…

Employment
10
Concern - Professional Services for Children Youth and Families

Concern's mission: concern brings hope, offers opportunity, and inspires change. concern's vision: to encourage growth and promote positive healthy lives.

Human Services
11
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc was established to provide comprehensive services to individuals/families with special needs to enable them to reach their highest level of independence and integration into the community.

Human Services
12
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh

Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bucks County Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Coordinating Council for Health and Welfare. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr22%17%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr14%47%35–55yr12%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr22%2%10–20yr18%4%20–35yr14%6%35–55yr12%88%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/32
the rest of the field
10%
310/3,060

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/31
Grantees still filing
21/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC — $2,468,567 · Human ServicesBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INCFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF BUCKS COUNTY — $346,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF BUCKS COUNTY+8 more — $176,518 · Human Services+8 moreCHILD HOME & COMMUNITY INC — $50,000 · OtherROLLING HARVEST FOOD RESCUE — $46,640 · OtherCoordinating Council for Health and Welfare — $10,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $10,000 · OtherThe Greater Philadelphia Diaper Bank — $5,520 · OtherLIFESPAN DAY CARE — $5,000 · OtherBUCKS COUNTY HOUSING GROUP INC — $5,000 · OtherPenndel Mental Health Center Inc — $29,020 · HealthLIBERTAE INCORPORATED — $20,000 · HealthTHE COUNCIL OF SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA INC — $17,400 · HealthBUCKS COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $7,500 · HealthNAMI BUCKS COUNTY PA — $5,000 · HealthPENN FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthMaternity Care Coalition — $5,000 · HealthLENAPE VALLEY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthVITA EDUCATION SERVICES INC — $22,656 · EducationCHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAM INC — $13,600 · EducationKEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC — $12,500 · Housing & ShelterADVOCATES FOR THE HOMELESS OF UPPER BUCKS — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCOALITION TO SHELTER AND SUPPORT THE HOMELESS INC — $7,600 · Housing & ShelterADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS AND THOSE IN NEED — $10,000 · Public BenefitWORTHWHILE WEAR INC — $5,000 · International
Human Services$2,991,585Other$132,160Health$93,920Education$36,256Housing & Shelter$30,100Public Benefit$10,000International$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC — $2,468,567 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF BUCKS COUNTY — $346,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC — $56,200 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCHILD HOME & COMMUNITY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetROLLING HARVEST FOOD RESCUE — $46,640 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTHE IVINS HOUSE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL CENTER — $34,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPenndel Mental Health Center Inc — $29,020 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $26,203 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVITA EDUCATION SERVICES INC — $22,656 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLIBERTAE INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCREDIT COUNSELING CENTER — $18,265 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE COUNCIL OF SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA INC — $17,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNetwork of Victim Assistance — $17,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC — $14,450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAM INC — $13,600 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS AND THOSE IN NEED — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCoordinating Council for Health and Welfare — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Greater Philadelphia Diaper Bank — $5,520 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWORTHWHILE WEAR INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetQUILTS FOR KIDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNAMI BUCKS COUNTY PA — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPENN FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY HOUSING GROUP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA OF BUCKS COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaternity Care Coalition — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLENAPE VALLEY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Foundations Community…Penn Community Bank F…The Philadelphia Foun…St Mary Medical CenterBucks County Drug & A…Today IncWilliam Penn Bank Com…Norman Raab FoundationW W Smith Charitable …Vna Foundation of Gre…The Leo and Peggy Pie…The Patricia Kind Fam…
Foundations Community PartnershipPA43× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundations Community Partnership · Penn Community Bank Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · St Mary Medical Center · Bucks County Drug & Alcohol Commission Inc · Today Inc · William Penn Bank Community Foundation · Norman Raab Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Vna Foundation of Greater North Penn · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · The Patricia Kind Family 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 Bucks County 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.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    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 · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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