· Public charity
United Way of Chester County In
Funding community service organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PALMETTO CITIZENS AGAINST SEXUAL ASSUALT AND CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER | $50,000 |
| CHESTERLANC DISABILITIES | $20,000 |
| SENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTY | $18,000 |
| SENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER | $18,000 |
| ALSTON WILKES SOCIETY | $16,500 |
| YORK COUNTY COUNIL ON AGING | $14,500 |
| UNITED WAY SUCCESS BY 6 | $10,000 |
| GRASP | $10,000 |
| SAFE PASSAGE INC | $8,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of those 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.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- SSSENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTY5× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +24%
- CDChester-Lancaster Disabilities & Special Needs Boa5× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +34%
- YCYORK COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC5× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- AWALSTON WILKES SOCIETY3× · 2018–2020 · $17k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +46%
- CCCHRIST CENTRAL MINISTRIES INC2× · 2019–2020 · $5k
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 south carolina victim assistance network's mission is to ensure crime victims receive access to, and assistance from the criminal and juvenile justice systems and related social service providers; to improve the quality of services…
The Abuse Prevention Council provides emergency, advocacy, counseling, education and specialized services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and homeless individuals and families.
Our mission is to provide compassionate direction to individuals and families in need through counseling, education and financial benefits management.
Serve clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities within york county, south carolina.
Empowering people in sumter county sc to live free from substance abuse through a continuum of high quality services.
Provide professional advanced life support services to the community.
Origin sc empowers individuals to achieve financial, housing and mental health stability through advocacy, counseling, and education.
My Sister's House is a nonprofit organization that provides services, programs, and resources to empower victims of domestic violence and their children to be free from abuse.
Palmetto Health Council, Inc will be the model of excellence for improving the total health status of the communities it serves. All of our employees will provide comprehensive preventative, curative, and life-enhancing services in a…
Provide rape victim counseling,education, and advocacy services in the low country of south carolina.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
The center operates a skilled nursing facility for the aged and participates under both the medicaid and medicare programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carolina Community Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 22 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 SENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Palmetto Citizens Against Sexual Assault ↗
- Who funds Chester-Lancaster Disabilities & Special Needs Boa ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER PALMETTO YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds G R A S P ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY IN ↗
- Who funds ALSTON WILKES SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BATTERED BUT NOT BROKEN ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA ↗
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: The Springs Close Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Nutramax Family Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Clarence H & Anna E Lutz Foundation · Chester Healthcare Foundation · United Way of York County SC · Arras Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Lancaster County Inc · The Junior Welfare League Inc · Community Partnership 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 Chester County In 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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