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United Way of Chester County In

Funding community service organizations.

$139k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$110kHuman Services$86kFood & Nutrition$66kHealth$52kEducation$46kArts & Culture$25kYouth Development$19kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $107k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$16,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$329k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GRASP$10,000
UNITED WAY SUCCESS BY 6$10,000
SAFE PASSAGE INC$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHESTERLANC DISABILITIES: $20k → 18%YORK COUNTY COUNIL ON AGING: $15k → 8%YMCA - CHESTER COUNTY: $18k → 18%YMCA - CHESTER COUNTY: $18k → 18%SENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER: $18k → 18%SENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTY: $18k → 18%CHESTERLANC DISABILITIES SPEC: $17k → 18%SENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER: $15k → 18%CHESTERLANC DISABILITIES SPEC: $15k → 18%SENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER: $15k → 18%UNITED WAY SUCCESS BY 6: $10k → 18%SUCCESS BY 6: $10k → 18%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$372k · 14 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$372k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+46%

Still filing today

86%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SS
    SENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +24%
  • CD
    Chester-Lancaster Disabilities & Special Needs Boa
    5× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +34%
  • YC
    YORK COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • AW
    ALSTON WILKES SOCIETY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $17k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +46%
  • CC
    CHRIST CENTRAL MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $5k
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.

1
South Carolina Victim Assistance Network

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…

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2
Cleveland County Abuse Prevention Council Inc

The Abuse Prevention Council provides emergency, advocacy, counseling, education and specialized services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and homeless individuals and families.

Crime & Legal
3
Compass of Carolina Inc

Our mission is to provide compassionate direction to individuals and families in need through counseling, education and financial benefits management.

Education
4
York County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs

Serve clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities within york county, south carolina.

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5
Sumter County Commission On Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Empowering people in sumter county sc to live free from substance abuse through a continuum of high quality services.

Health
6
Southern Chester County Emergency Medical Services Inc

Provide professional advanced life support services to the community.

Health
7
Family Services Inc

Origin sc empowers individuals to achieve financial, housing and mental health stability through advocacy, counseling, and education.

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8
My Sister's House Inc

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.

Human Services
9
Palmetto Health Council Inc

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…

Health
10
Tri-County Speaks Fka People Against Rape

Provide rape victim counseling,education, and advocacy services in the low country of south carolina.

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11
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
12
Saluda Nursing Center

The center operates a skilled nursing facility for the aged and participates under both the medicaid and medicare programs.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carolina Community Care Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTY: $65,725 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTYChester-Lancaster Disabilities & Special Needs Boa: $52,000 · Human ServicesChester-Lancaster Disabilities & Special Needs BoaYORK COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $43,500 · Human ServicesYORK COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INCUPPER PALMETTO YMCA INC: $36,000 · Human ServicesUPPER PALMETTO YMCA INCUNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY IN: $20,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY INAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesPalmetto Citizens Against Sexual Assault: $60,000 · OtherPalmetto Citizens Against Sexual AssaultSAFE PASSAGE INC: $23,000 · OtherSAFE PASSAGE INCALSTON WILKES SOCIETY: $17,000 · OtherALSTON WILKES SOCIETYALSTON WILKES SOCIETY: $16,500 · OtherALSTON WILKES SOCIETYCHESTER COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD: $10,000 · OtherCHESTER COUNTY RESCUE SQUADTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $8,327 · Other+6 more: $25,300 · Other+6 moreG R A S P: $24,000 · ReligionGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC: $8,500 · Youth DevelopmentPALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentBATTERED BUT NOT BROKEN: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$227,225Other$160,127Religion$24,000Youth Development$15,500Crime & Legal$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTY: $65,725 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetPalmetto Citizens Against Sexual Assault: $60,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetChester-Lancaster Disabilities & Special Needs Boa: $52,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYORK COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $43,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUPPER PALMETTO YMCA INC: $36,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetG R A S P: $24,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY IN: $20,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetALSTON WILKES SOCIETY: $16,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $8,327 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA: $7,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budget
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 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 BATTERED BUT NOT BROKEN ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA ↗

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.

The Springs Close Foundation IncSC24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Chester County In funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Chester County In. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to United Way of Chester County In?

    Find your warmest path to United Way of Chester County In through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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