How much did UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA grant in FY2023?

UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA reported 35 grants totaling $1,780,719 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA based?

UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA is based in PA.

UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA

To improve the quality of life of the people of lackawanna and wayne counties and surrounding communities by serving as a catalyst for community problem solving and by conducting an efficient, encompassing volunteer fundraising effort to positively impact the community's most compelling social problems.

$1.8M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$228k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

strongphysicalprinciples practicefoundedluzerneaid carevalues

2020

strongphysicalaid carelowvaluesunderstandingfounded

2021

pre-k financialwarmthhousingpre-kindergarden educationeducation scholarshipsagingblind visually

2022

student scholarshipspre-k financialscholarships pre-kdesignationsearlyhousingwarmth

2023

pre-k financialstudent scholarshipsscholarships pre-kearlydesignationshousingwarmth

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k8 grants · $58k
$10k–50k13 grants · $361k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M

$35,809

Median grant

States reached

$9.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY$228,217
WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER$109,211
SCRANTON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER$90,777
ST JOSEPH'S CENTER$89,758
NEIGHBORWORKS NORTHEASTERN PA$70,333
DAY NURSERY ASSOCIATION$68,726
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NEPA$67,917
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC$67,192
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY$63,017
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NORTHEAST PA$61,376
TRIBORO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$61,296
YMCA - GREATER SCRANTON$59,223
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION$56,562
THE ARC OF NORTHEASTERN PA$53,500
DISCOVERY MI PRESCHOOL$48,651

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.9M · 43 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.9M

$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+11%

Still filing today

60%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

WR
WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER
6× · 2018–2023 · $581k · revenue +89%
BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NEPA
6× · 2018–2023 · $518k · revenue +25%
YG
YMCA - GREATER SCRANTON
6× · 2018–2023 · $471k · revenue +44%

Funded once

VA
VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA
one grant, 2018 · $33k
BH
BRIGHT HORIZONS GLENMAURA
one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -40%
FS
FAMILY SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF NEPA
one grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue -10%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

United Community Services for Working Families

Working in partnership with local social service agencies, UCSWF connects Berks county families with community resources, education and career development.

Philanthropy

Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care

Education

Ywca Tri-County Area

Provides quality programs and services designed to support and enrich the community

Human Services

Keystone Care

Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.

Health

United Way of Lackawanna

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Pennsylvania Family Council

Foster social welfare by educating citizens.

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United Way of Franklin County

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of franklin county

Philanthropy

Northern Tier Community Action Corp

To provide services to the economically disadvantaged of Pennsylvanias Cameron, Elk, McKean and Potter counties.

Human Services

Scranton Public Library

Public lending library

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South Central Emergency Medical

Provide emergency medical services.

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Child Development and Family Council of

Assist qualifying families in obtaining quality child care in the centre county, pa area.

Human Services

The Arc of Pennsylvania

The arc of pennsylvania works to include all children and adults with intellectual and development disabilities in every community and provide advocacy and resources to these citizens and their families.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Northeastern Pennsylvania and the most unlike its peers is Bright Horizon Foundation. 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 62 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%2/55

the rest of the field

113/1,335

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.

05the grantee network

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/40

Grantees still filing

31/40

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,610,597Human Services$3,293,363Education$543,589Health$269,239Philanthropy$215,248Housing & Shelter$89,877Community Improvement$15,500

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.

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.

Scranton Area Foundation IncPA66.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organisation UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA 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.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 240796423 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to United Way of Lackawanna?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Lackawanna through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Lackawanna?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Lackawanna?

More from the funding graph