How much does United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties give?

United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties reported 42 itemized grants totaling $2,115,237, out of $2,667,166 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (55%), Education (14%), Health (12%).

Who are United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Neighborhood Centers of Lackawanna County ($2.2M), Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton Inc ($1.1M), Wrc Inc ($860k).

Does United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Scranton Area Foundation Inc, Moses Taylor Foundation Inc, Allone Charities.

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Pennsylvania · Public charity

United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties

To improve the quality of life of the people of lackawanna, wayne and pike 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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 42
Itemized grants FY2025: 38
Organizations funded FY2024: 5%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $2.1M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $49,838
Largest grant, FY2025: $218,082
Organizations funded a year: 33 to 40; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $9.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	41	$2.1M	15%
FY2024	38	$1.6M	5%
FY2023	35	$1.6M	11%
FY2022	39	$1.6M	10%
FY2021	36	$1.5M	22%
FY2020	33	$1.5M	3%
FY2019	37	$1.9M	3%
FY2018	40	$2.0M	28%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$8.6MEducation$2.3MHealth$1.9MYouth Development$1.1MHousing & Shelter$565kPhilanthropy$342kFood & Nutrition$339kPublic Safety & Disaster$282kOther$0

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
United Neighborhood Centers of Lackawanna County	$2,151,614	9	n/a
Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton Inc	$1,140,774	9	2%
Wrc Inc	$860,073	9	3%
Boys & Girls Club of Northeastern Pennsylvania	$767,257	9	11%
St Josephs Center	$716,072	9	0%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton	$684,341	9	3%
The Arc of Northeastern Pennsylvania	$633,690	9	1%
Jewish Community Center of Scranton	$624,181	9	4%
Jewish Family Service of Northeastern Pennsylvania	$617,798	9	14%
Day Nursery Association	$526,921	9	7%

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All grantees of United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
United Neighborhood Centers of Lackawanna County	$2,151,614	9	n/a
Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton Inc	$1,140,774	9	2%
Wrc Inc	$860,073	9	3%
Boys & Girls Club of Northeastern Pennsylvania	$767,257	9	11%
St Josephs Center	$716,072	9	0%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton	$684,341	9	3%
The Arc of Northeastern Pennsylvania	$633,690	9	1%
Jewish Community Center of Scranton	$624,181	9	4%
Jewish Family Service of Northeastern Pennsylvania	$617,798	9	14%
Day Nursery Association	$526,921	9	7%
Triboro Christian Academy	$477,750	9	n/a
Upper Valley YMCA	$458,414	9	3%
Lackawanna Blind Association	$372,308	9	13%
Scranton Primary Health Care Center	$328,615	9	1%
United Cerebral Palsy of Nepa	$308,848	5	2%
Summit Academy Inc	$308,242	9	11%
American Red Cross of Lackawanna County	$282,132	8	n/a
Meals on Wheels of Northeastern Pa Inc	$281,235	9	3%
Scranton Neighborhood Housing Services Inc	$271,585	5	3%
Telespond Senior Services Inc	$265,664	5	5%
Northeastern Pennsylvania Council Inc Boy Scouts of America	$263,589	6	6%
Peace Lutheran Church	$256,464	9	n/a
United Way of Wyoming Valley	$249,401	8	1%
Discovery Multiple Intelligences Preschool	$246,746	8	8%
United Cerebral Palsy of Northeast Pa	$244,749	4	n/a
Freckles and Frills Inc	$225,129	8	n/a
The Salvation Army	$181,758	9	n/a
The Dollywood Foundation	$177,658	4	0%
Allied Health Care Services	$177,600	5	0%
Outreach - Center for Community Resources	$133,416	3	1%
North Pocono Preschool	$130,004	7	3%
Commission on Economic Opportunity of Luzerne County	$127,925	2	0%
Tiny Tots	$94,928	7	n/a
Helping Hands	$93,776	6	n/a
Serving Seniors Inc	$87,877	6	4%
Friends of the Poor	$77,839	1	12%
Voluntary Action Center	$65,537	2	4%
University of Scranton	$63,272	3	0%
Valley View School District	$61,009	6	n/a
Wayne County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION	$60,961	6	5%
The Catherine McAuley Center	$52,833	1	3%
Wyoming County United Way Inc	$36,191	4	2%
Allied Services Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine	$32,400	1	0%
Pike County Commissioners	$30,000	2	n/a
Family Service Association of Northeastern Pennsylvania	$29,413	2	0%
Kids Play Incorporated	$29,037	1	n/a
St Stanislaus Polish National Catholic Church	$28,748	1	n/a
Pocono Mountains United Way	$28,091	3	1%
United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley	$27,924	3	0%
Old Forge Elementary School	$27,320	4	n/a
Child Hunger Outreach Partners	$24,000	1	n/a
Bright Horizon Foundation	$19,600	1	0%
St Francis of Assisi Kitchen	$18,750	1	1%
Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pa	$18,083	2	0%
Honesdale Methodist	$17,228	3	n/a
The Bread Basket of Northeastern Pa	$15,500	2	7%
Black Scranton Project Inc	$14,500	2	n/a
Karen Jaggers Group Home	$12,740	2	n/a
Girls on the Run Lehigh Valley & Pocono	$12,000	1	2%
Ages & Stages Child Care LLC	$11,195	2	n/a
Marywood University	$8,223	1	0%
Workforce Wayne Inc	$8,000	1	1%
Shalom Community Development Corp	$7,500	1	9%
Hildebrandt Learning Centers LLC	$6,346	1	n/a
Diocese of Scranton Catholic School System Inc	$6,074	1	n/a
Wayne County Public Library Inc	$5,368	1	1%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($78k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 45.

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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.

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How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties

How much does United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties give?: United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties reported 42 itemized grants totaling $2,115,237, out of $2,667,166 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (55%), Education (14%), Health (12%).
Who are United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Neighborhood Centers of Lackawanna County ($2.2M), Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton Inc ($1.1M), Wrc Inc ($860k).
Does United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Scranton Area Foundation Inc, Moses Taylor Foundation Inc, Allone Charities.
Where is United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties based?: United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties is based in PA.