· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $370k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY | $218,082 |
| NEIGHBORWORKS NORTHEASTERN PA | $110,708 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $107,521 |
| WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER | $106,364 |
| ST JOSEPH'S CENTER | $101,333 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NORTHEAST PA | $98,912 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC | $81,131 |
| OUTREACH CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES | $80,083 |
| YMCA - GREATER SCRANTON | $79,702 |
| THE ARC OF NORTHEASTERN PA | $78,250 |
| FRIENDS OF THE POOR | $77,839 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NEPA | $73,694 |
| TRIBORO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $72,490 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF NEPA | $72,080 |
| COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY | $70,425 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $5.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $214k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WIWRC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $860k · revenue +100%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA9× · 2017–2025 · $767k · revenue +5%
- SJST JOSEPHS CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $716k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- ASALLIED SERVICES INSTITUTE OF REHABILITATION MEDICINEone grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue -14%
- SSST STANISLAUS POLISH NATIONAL CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $29k
- BHBRIGHT HORIZON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +45%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide affordable housing to people of lackawanna county
Working in partnership with local social service agencies, UCSWF connects Berks county families with community resources, education and career development.
The child development council of northeastern pa, inc. was established to provide child care and nutritional services to working families.
Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.
Services to challenged individuals in Vocational,Residential, Home Based, and Community settings.
To provide companion services to individuals with special needs.
Ucp of central pennsylvania empowers people of diverse abilities to live meaningful life through innovative support and services.
The center for community action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of the…
Schuylkill community action is a private, nonprofit corporationincorporated under the laws of the commonwealth of pennsylvania. theprimary purpose of schuylkill community action is to coordinate andfocus all available resources upon the…
Provide services to meet the needs of senior citizens of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
Foster social welfare by educating citizens.
How this is measured
47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 70 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC ↗
- Who funds WRC INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPHS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SCRANTON ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds DAY NURSERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds LACKAWANNA BLIND ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEPA ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHEASTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIED HEALTH CARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds NORTH POCONO PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SERVING SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE POOR ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of Scranton ↗
- Who funds Wayne County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Allone Charities · The Hawk Family Foundation · Allone Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Robert H Spitz Foundation · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · Walter L Schautz Foundation · Margaret Briggs Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Community Services for Children Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties. Bigger dots raise more.
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