· Public charity
United Way of Columbia and Montour County
Increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another such as the two county campaign to solicit, receive, and distribute funds to human service organizations serving residents of columbia and montour counties.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of UNITED WAY OF COLUMBIA AND MONTOUR COUNTY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $128,351 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $159,943 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $31,592 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k8 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMEN'S CENTER | $23,400 |
| BLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY | $13,179 |
| COLUMBIA CHILD DEVELOPMENT | $13,000 |
| CAMP VICTORY | $11,352 |
| BLOOMSBURG AREA YMCA | $10,075 |
| DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY CTR | $8,873 |
| N4C | $8,450 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,800 |
| EOS THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $6,511 |
| DANVILLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT | $6,500 |
| COLUMBIA-MONTOUR BOY SCOUTS | $6,500 |
| ORANGEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $6,500 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $6,211 |
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 (FY17–21, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TWTHE WOMEN'S CENTER3× · 2017–2021 · $92k · revenue +22%
- BABLOOMSBURG AREA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION3× · 2017–2021 · $77k · revenue +83%
- CCCOLUMBIA CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM3× · 2017–2021 · $59k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- CMCOLUMBIA MONTOUR FAMILY HEALTH INCone grant, 2017 · $17k
- SISUNCOM INDUSTRIES INCone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue -23%
- TBTHOMAS BEAVER FREE LIBRARYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +164%
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.
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
The centre county library & historical museum is a free community destination providing books, information, internet access, and technology resources to preserve our heritage and promote a lifetime of reading and learning.
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…
The center for community action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of the…
To meet the needs of children and families in our community by providing a community based, child focused center that facilitates a compassionate multidisciplinary approach to the prevention, identification, investigation, prosecution and…
To help individuals and families lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
Public library services
To facilitate the coordination, administration and provision of quality care and child development services in centre county; to develop mechanisms to promote comprehensive programs responsive to the needs of the children and families in…
A welcoming community center that provides information and equitable access to space, collections, materials, programs and services that enrich the quality of life and facilitate lifelong learning.
Public lending library
Provide emergency medical services.
To provide, maintain, operate and support a free public library in monroe county, pa
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Center and the most unlike its peers is Orangeville Public Library Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 21 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 THE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLOOMSBURG AREA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-MONTOUR COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN COLUMBIA COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NICHOLAS WOLFF FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds EOS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ORANGEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA MONTOUR FAMILY HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA ↗
- Who funds SUNCOM INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS BEAVER FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES ↗
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: Community Giving Foundation · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · Susquehanna Valley United Way · Degenstein Charles B Fdn-Char Tr · The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn · Ppl Foundation · The Magee Foundation · Bloomsburg Area Community Foundation · Geisinger Health · Degenstein Charitable Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Columbia and Montour 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.
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.