· Public charity
United Way of Franklin County
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of franklin county
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $141,518 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $224,108 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $82,590 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $129k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAYNESBORO YMCA | $19,436 |
| LITTLE DAISY'S CLOSET | $14,564 |
| WOMEN IN NEED | $14,500 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES | $13,500 |
| WAYNESBORO EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $12,697 |
| LINCOLN AREA INTERMEDIATE UNIT NO 12 | $12,266 |
| CHAMBERSBURG MEMORIAL YMCA | $11,025 |
| WAYNESBORO COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES | $11,000 |
| HEALTHY COMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP | $10,000 |
| SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC (THE GLEANING PROJECT) | $10,000 |
| SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC | $7,148 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY 4H THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $5,382 |
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 (FY17–25, $234k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 10 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 FY2025, 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
- WIWOMEN IN NEED INC9× · 2017–2025 · $282k · revenue +30%
- YMYoung Mens Christian Association of Waynesboro9× · 2017–2025 · $281k · revenue +36%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CHAMBERSBURG PA8× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- FCFRANKLIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEMone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -3%
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $7k
- WAWaynesboro Area ALS Unit Incone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -97%
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.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
Provide emergency medical services.
To provide information, counseling, and such services as may be appropriate to families or others in raising and nuturing children.
Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive program of critical human services.
To provide assistance to people in need.
Programs to benefit proper development of children including operation of child day care center.
To provide companion services to individuals with special needs.
The organization is a leading organization in northwestern pennsylvania for quality early care and education. the organization provides direct service as well as training and planning leadership for a wide georaphic region.
Connections work changes lives and improves communities by providing services and supports to individuals seeking pathways to success.
Early education and child care services
To provide programs that will enable low income individuals to attain the necessary skills, knowledge, and motivation needed to become self-sufficient.
To provide affordable, quality childcare, preschool, & family resources. a united way agency.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Aid Society Southern Pa District - Church of the Brethren and the most unlike its peers is Franklin County Extension & 4-H Support Committee. 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 47 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 24 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 WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Waynesboro ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CHAMBERSBURG PA ↗
- Who funds WAYNESBORO EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST START PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNESBORO COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES IN ↗
- Who funds OCCUPATIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY COMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP OF GREATER FRANKLIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN HOME CARE & HOSPICE FKA LUTHERAN HOME CARE & HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHAMBERSBURG AND SHIPPENSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds B O P I C INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE DAISY'S CLOSET ↗
- Who funds PENNCARES ↗
- Who funds MIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY SOUTHERN PA DISTRICT - CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY EXTENSION & 4-H SUPPORT COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Waynesboro Area ALS Unit Inc ↗
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 Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Chambersburg Hospital · The Manitowoc Company Foundation · McCleary Family Foundation · Stewart Alexander Md Fdn Tr Udeed · Rice Family Foundation · Adams County Community Foundation Inc · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · York County Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Franklin 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.