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United Way of Lancaster County at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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United Way of Lancaster County

To advance the education, economic mobility, and health of our community by mobilizing resources, people, and organizations.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$5.9MHuman Services$4.8MFood & Nutrition$3.5MEducation$3.4MPhilanthropy$1.7MEmployment$916kCommunity Improvement$884kYouth Development$845kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $415k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $285k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.9M
$18,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH$1,488,869
Individual grant recipient$1,452,730
LOFT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP$60,000
ASSETS$60,000
Individual grant recipient$58,000
TENFOLD$56,525
LANCASTER COUNTY HOUSING & REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITIES$50,000
LET'S GO 1-2-3$41,891
ECHOS$41,750
COLUMBIA DREAM CENTER$40,750
LODGE LIFE SERVICES$34,725
THE FACTORY MINISTRIES$31,952
GOODWILL KEYSTONE AREA$20,000
BRIGHTSIDE OPPORTUNITIES CENTER$20,000
CROSSNET$18,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.6M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $48k → 11%GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $14k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $311k → 9%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $12k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $301k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $224k → 9%COMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $170k → 9%CASA OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $20k → 9%CASA OF LANCASTER AND LEBANON COUNTIES: $20k → 9%NEW HOPE COMMUNITY LIFE MINISTRIES: $55k → 9%NEW HOPE COMMUNITY LIFE MINISTRIES: $55k → 9%NEW HOPE COMMUNITY LIFE MINISTRIES: $41k → 9%NEW HOPE COMMUNITY LIFE MINISTRIES: $19k → 9%PENNSYLVANIA FURNITURE MISSION: $100k → 9%PENNSYLVANIA FURNITURE MISSION: $10k → 9%LANCASTER EARLY EDUCATION CENTER: $120k → 9%MILAGRO HOUSE: $30k → 9%MILAGRO HOUSE: $15k → 9%MILAGRO HOUSE: $10k → 9%LOFT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $60k → 9%LOFT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $30k → 9%CRISPUS ATTUCKS COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%LUTHERCARE: $202k → 9%LUTHERCARE: $202k → 9%LUTHERCARE: $182k → 9%LUTHERCARE: $152k → 9%LUTHERCARE: $68k → 9%ECHOS: $42k → 9%ECHOS: $41k → 9%LUTHERCARE FOR KIDS: $26k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 53 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
28

Total granted

$29M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+24%

Still filing today

74%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LG
    LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.6M · revenue +74%
  • LC
    LITERACY COUNCIL OF LANC-LEB LVA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.1M · revenue +209% · 64% of their budget
  • TF
    THE FACTORY MINISTRIES
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +128% · 34% of their budget

Funded once

  • LC
    LANCO CARES RAPID RESPONSE GRANTS (INCLUDING 25 GRANTEES OVER 5000)
    one grant, 2021 · $247k
  • LC
    LANCO CARES RAPID RESPONSE GRANTS
    one grant, 2020 · $239k
  • LE
    LANCASTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $213k · revenue +23% · 38% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lancaster Community Safety Coalition

Enhance public safety and the quality of life in lancaster by engaging the community and advancing current crime prevention strategies.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
The Arc of Lancaster County

Empowering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) and their families to lead full, satisfying, independent lives of their choice.

Health
3
Lancaster Equity Inc

Lancaster equity coordinates efforts to advance communities where everyone has an opportunity to thrive, whether that be through neighborhood revitalization, living wage work, entrepreneurship, or safe and affordable housing.

Housing & Shelter
4
Lancaster Housing Services Incorporated
Housing & Shelter
5
Lancaster County Council of the Arts

To enrich the quality of life in Lancaster County by building vibrant and inclusive communities connecting arts, culture, education, and economic vitality.

Arts & Culture
6
Lancaster County Council On Aging

The mission of the lancaster county council on aging is to provide a system of coordinated and comprehensive services to enable older persons of lancaster county to continue to maintain their independence.

Human Services
7
Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce Inc

Support member businesses through education and promotion, and support the quality of life in lancaster county through promoting compatible economic development.

Community Improvement
8
United Way of Lancaster County Inc

To positively impact lives by mobilizing people and resources in lancaster county with an emphasis on healthy communities, youth opportunities, financial security and community resiliency by partnering with organizations and community…

Philanthropy
9
The Lancaster County Partners for Youth
Philanthropy
10
Lawrence County Association for Responsible Care

To advocate for and provide quality services to people with developmental disabilities and ensure their health, safety and welfare while promoting personal choice and growth.

Human Services
11
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry

The lancaster chamber of commerce & industry's mission is to create the environment, facilitate partnerships, and lead on issues that elevate business success. the strategic plan is to position lancaster county businesses to thrive. by…

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12
Lancaster Law Foundation

We promote equal access to justice for all in lancaster county by funding public interest law projects, delivering pro bono service, and educating the public on civic and legal issues.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health America of Lancaster County; the most unlike its peers is Patients R Waiting Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 90 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/67
Grantees still filing
41/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $6,784,425 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMATERNAL INFANT AND EARLY CHILDHOOD VISITATION IMPLEMENTATION GRANT: $2,265,953 · OtherMATERNAL INFANT AND EARLY CHILDHOOD VISITATION IMPLEM…NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $1,663,800 · OtherNURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIPLANCASTER COUNTY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $825,000 · OtherLANCASTER COUNTY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD+47 more: $2,924,552 · Other+47 moreNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $3,951,543 · HealthNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIPLANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH: $3,193,390 · HealthLANCASTER GENERAL HEALTHLANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL: $1,565,125 · HealthLANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL+7 more: $354,655 · HealthLITERACY COUNCIL OF LANC-LEB LVA: $1,087,375 · EducationLITERACY C…EPHRATA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $680,903 · EducationEPHRATA PU…ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $596,456 · EducationELIZABETHT…LANCASTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $212,670 · EducationLANCASTER …+5 more: $151,050 · Education+5 moreCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC: $1,015,946 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…LUTHERCARE: $831,306 · Human ServicesLUTHERCAR…NEW HOPE COMMUNITY LIFE MINISTRY: $169,714 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE …LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER: $120,000 · Human ServicesPENNSYLVANIA FURNITURE MISSION: $110,000 · Human ServicesTHE LOFT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $90,000 · Human Services+5 more: $251,375 · Human Services+5 moreTHE FACTORY MINISTRIES: $1,057,856 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF LANCASTER: $50,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $55,700 · Youth DevelopmentPLANT THE SEED OF LEARNING INC: $292,124 · Recreation & SportsBRIGHT SIDE OPPORTUNITIES CORPORATI: $151,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE COMMON WHEEL: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsLANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB: $134,172 · ReligionPARISH RESOURCE CENTER INC: $100,000 · Religion
Other$14,463,730Health$9,064,713Education$2,728,454Human Services$2,588,341Youth Development$1,163,556Recreation & Sports$493,624Religion$234,172

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $3,951,543 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetLANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH: $3,193,390 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetLANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL: $1,565,125 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF LANC-LEB LVA: $1,087,375 over 4y, 64% of budgetTHE FACTORY MINISTRIES: $1,057,856 over 7y, 34% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC: $1,015,946 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetLUTHERCARE: $831,306 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetEPHRATA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $680,903 over 3y, 25% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $596,456 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPLANT THE SEED OF LEARNING INC: $292,124 over 4y, 100% of budgetLANCASTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $212,670 over 1y, 38% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC: $189,940 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetNEW HOPE COMMUNITY LIFE MINISTRY: $169,714 over 4y, 21% of budgetBRIGHT SIDE OPPORTUNITIES CORPORATI: $151,500 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetUNITED CHURCHES OF ELIZABETHTOWN AREA: $143,896 over 2y, 10% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB: $134,172 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetASSETS LANCASTER: $129,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetLANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER: $120,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetLANCASTER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $116,285 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTENFOLD: $115,252 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES: $113,459 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetARBOR PLACE INC: $110,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA FURNITURE MISSION: $110,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetPARISH RESOURCE CENTER INC: $100,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE LOFT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $90,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetUNION COMMUNITY CARE: $83,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES: $82,250 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetSWAN SCALING WALLS A NOTE AT A TIME: $81,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetLANCASTER HEALTH CENTER: $72,249 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLANCASTER-LEBANON EDUCATION FOUNDAT: $70,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $60,125 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetMILAGRO HOUSE INC: $55,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetPATIENTS R WAITING INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF LANCASTER: $50,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTHE COMMON WHEEL: $50,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetEPHRATA AREA SOCIAL SERVICES: $47,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetHOMEFIELDS: $46,480 over 1y, 20% of budgetLets Go 123: $41,891 over 1y, 22% of budgetCASA OF LANCASTER AND LEBANON COUNTIES: $40,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $38,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH COUNCIL INC: $38,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LODGE LIFE SERVICES INC: $34,725 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $30,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARCH STREET CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetHALFWAY ENVIRONMENT FOR ALCOHOLICS RECOVERING INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMusic for Everyone: $28,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budget
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 NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF LANC-LEB LVA ↗
  • Who funds THE FACTORY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERCARE ↗
  • Who funds EPHRATA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PLANT THE SEED OF LEARNING INC ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE COMMUNITY LIFE MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT SIDE OPPORTUNITIES CORPORATI ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CHURCHES OF ELIZABETHTOWN AREA ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB ↗
  • Who funds ASSETS LANCASTER ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TENFOLD ↗
  • Who funds MIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ARBOR PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA FURNITURE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds PARISH RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LOFT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds UNION COMMUNITY CARE ↗
  • Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SWAN SCALING WALLS A NOTE AT A TIME ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER-LEBANON EDUCATION FOUNDAT ↗

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.

Lancaster County Comm…The Steinman Foundati…High FoundationClark Associates Char…Central Pennsylvania …Ferree FoundationPryor E & Arlene R Ne…City Limits FoundationPpl FoundationTouchstone Foundation…The Abigail L Longene…Fulton Family Foundat…
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA114× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · High Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Ferree Foundation · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · City Limits Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Touchstone Foundation Supporting Organization · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation · Fulton Family Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Lancaster County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Lancaster County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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