· Public charity
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of poverty.
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 57 grants below total $8,553,692 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,710,469 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,156,777 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $495k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+9 grants · $5.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UW OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA | $1,588,855 |
| GREATER PHL COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $664,574 |
| AFRICAN CULTURAL ALL OF N AMERICA INC | $529,938 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR WORKING FAMILIES | $521,000 |
| PHL LAWYERS FOR SOCIAL EQUITY | $500,000 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC | $500,000 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORP PHL | $500,000 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $326,695 |
| TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $250,000 |
| SAMUEL S FELS FUND | $220,000 |
| DEFENDER ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA | $177,751 |
| NJ 2-1-1 PARTNERSHIP | $160,000 |
| BEECH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $150,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $150,000 |
| PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT CORPORATION | $135,000 |
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, $29.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +23% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
717 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 667 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k 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
- LYLAKESIDE YOUTH SERVICE7× · 2017–2023 · $6.3M · revenue +72%
- FUFIRST UP8× · 2017–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +21% · 49% of their budget
- CFCampaign for Working Families Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +184% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- PSPHILADELPHIA SENIOR CENTERone grant, 2017 · $203k · revenue -79%
- TTTHE THERAPEUTIC CENTER AT FOX CHASE AKA THE BRIDGEone grant, 2017 · $159k · revenue -51%
- TWThe Workforce Institute's City Collegeone grant, 2017 · $104k · revenue -96%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg and the most unlike its peers is Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
941 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. 941 of the 1,070 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE YOUTH SERVICE ↗
- Who funds FIRST UP ↗
- Who funds Campaign for Working Families Inc ↗
- Who funds UTILITY EMERGENCY SERVICES FUND ↗
- Who funds URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF DELAWARE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds GREATER PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INDEPENDENCE REGION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA LAWYERS FOR SOCIAL EQUITY ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds NJ 2-1-1 PARTNERSHIP A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Maternity Care Coalition ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Public Health Management Corporation ↗
- Who funds Wonderspring ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BENEFITS DATA TRUST ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Children First PA ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds ACLAMO ↗
- Who funds CONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association ↗
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 Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Connelly Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family 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 Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Center for Family Services — 73% of income from government
- Acenda Inc Dba Acenda Integrated Health — 69% of income from government
- Caring for Kids Inc — 60% of income from government
- United Way of Delaware — 58% of income from government
- Cumberland Empowerment Zone Corpora — 41% of income from government
- The Work Group Inc — 39% of income from government
- Covenant House New Jersey Inc — 34% of income from government
- Oaks Integrated Care Inc — 31% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% of income from government
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- Tri-County Community Action Agency Inc — 23% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- United Way of Greater Mercer County — 8% of income from government
- Hendricks House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Legacy Treatment Services Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- A Place for Us Atlantic County Womens Center — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.