Pennsylvania · Public charity
United Way of Erie County
United Way of Erie County's mission is to mobilize resources to break the cycle of poverty and improve our community.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $714k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,102
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $429,174
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 53
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $41M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations United Way of Erie County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 7 | $588k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $129k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $510k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $322k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $949k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $1.7M | 3% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $2.3M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 53 | $3.4M | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safe Harbor Behavioral Health of UPMC Hamot | $1,451,034 | 8 | 1% |
| Achievement Center Inc | $1,397,263 | 8 | 2% |
| Early Connections Inc | $1,049,629 | 6 | 9% |
| Family Services of Nw Pa | $938,181 | 5 | 1% |
| Greater Erie Community Action Committee | $657,433 | 6 | 1% |
| Community Shelter Services Inc | $620,909 | 4 | 10% |
| St Martin Center | $619,495 | 4 | 10% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $568,638 | 4 | 0% |
| Gannon University | $476,263 | 6 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Erie Inc | $455,805 | 3 | 18% |
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Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Erie County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 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: Erie Community Foundation · Wabtec Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · Hamot Health Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Greater Erie Community Action Committee · Greater Erie Economic Development Corporation · The Britton Family Foundation · Northwest Institute of Research · Employees'Community Services Fund of General Electric · Merwin Foundation
How this is measured
About United Way of Erie County
- How much does United Way of Erie County give?
- United Way of Erie County reported 9 itemized grants totaling $714,353, out of $1,079,676 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Erie County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Human Services (25%), Education (17%).
- Who are United Way of Erie County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Safe Harbor Behavioral Health of UPMC Hamot ($1.5M), Achievement Center Inc ($1.4M), Early Connections Inc ($1.0M).
- Does United Way of Erie County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Erie County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Erie Community Foundation, Wabtec Foundation, Northwest Charitable Foundation.
- Where is United Way of Erie County based?
- United Way of Erie County is based in PA.
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