Pennsylvania · Public charity
United Way of Chester County Inc
To unite people and mobilize resources to build better lives and stronger communities.
- $549k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 63
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations United Way of Chester County Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $548k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $605k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $1.3M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $1.7M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $739k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $1.2M | 21% |
| FY2019 | 62 | $1.5M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 58 | $1.8M | 12% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region | $893,943 | 5 | 3% |
| Open Hearth Inc | $668,683 | 9 | 5% |
| Family Service of Chester County | $499,942 | 8 | 4% |
| Life Transforming Ministries | $493,505 | 8 | 26% |
| Friends Association for the Care and Pro | $481,365 | 6 | 7% |
| Community Volunteers in Medicine | $308,944 | 6 | 1% |
| West Chester Area Day Care Center | $282,098 | 9 | 5% |
| Chester County Opportunities Industrialization Centers Inc | $261,975 | 6 | 8% |
| Safe Harbor of Chester County Inc | $245,653 | 7 | 7% |
| Cerebral Palsy Association of Chester County Inc | $222,185 | 7 | 2% |
Show all 119 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($90k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Chester County Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 108 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Fund for Women and Girls · The Alliance for Health Equity · Connelly Foundation · Chester County Food Bank · Justamere Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Genuardi Family Foundation · The Dansko Foundation Inc · Hankin Foundation
How this is measured
About United Way of Chester County Inc
- How much does United Way of Chester County Inc give?
- United Way of Chester County Inc reported 25 grants totaling $548,997 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 63 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Chester County Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Housing & Shelter (18%), Health (18%).
- Who are United Way of Chester County Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region ($894k), Open Hearth Inc ($669k), Family Service of Chester County ($500k).
- Does United Way of Chester County Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Chester County Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chester County Community Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, The Gordon Charter Foundation.
- Where is United Way of Chester County Inc based?
- United Way of Chester County Inc is based in PA.
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