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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 members and businesses to fulfill the mission.

$148k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$138kArts & Culture$121kHuman Services$114kHealth$85kReligion$58kYouth Development$44kEducation$32kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $128,020, the rows itemized in this filing. The $147,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,480 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $103k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$316k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KARE$21,820
ALSTON WILKES SOCIETY$18,000
LANCASTER CHILDREN'S HOME$13,000
PCASA$10,000
A FATHER'S WAY$10,000
BATTERED BUT NOT BROKEN$10,000
SAFE PASSAGE$10,000
LANCASTER CO PARTNERS FOR YOUTH$10,000
LANCASTER CO OF THE ARTS$9,700
CHRISTIAN SERVICES$8,000
LANCASTER COUNTY FIRST STEP$7,500
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 (FY21–23, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CAROLINA COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 16%CHESTER-LANCASTER DISABILITIES AND SPECIAL NEEDS: $10k → 11%A FATHER'S WAY: $9k → 11%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$669k · 12 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$669k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+24%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • AF
    A FATHERS WAY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +34%
  • TL
    The Lancaster County Partners for Youth
    3× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +77%
  • LC
    LANCASTER COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP
    4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • PF
    PARTNERS FOR YOUTH
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • SP
    SAFE PASSAGE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • CC
    CAROLINA COMMUNITY ACTIONS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -3%
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
Tri-County Speaks Fka People Against Rape

Provide rape victim counseling,education, and advocacy services in the low country of south carolina.

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2
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
3
Carolina Therapeutic Services Community Development Inc

CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives

Human Services
4
South Carolina Victim Assistance Network

The south carolina victim assistance network's mission is to ensure crime victims receive access to, and assistance from the criminal and juvenile justice systems and related social service providers; to improve the quality of services…

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5
Carolina Teen Center

Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…

Health
6
Carolina Family Connections

Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.

Human Services
7
Carolina Adoption Services Inc

Carolina adoption services provides international and domestic adoption services, foster care, home studies, and post adoption support for children, youth and adoptive families.

Human Services
8
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
9
South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault

Sccadvasa is the collective voice promoting the prevention of domestic violence and sexual assault in south carolina

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10
Standup-Speakout of North Carolina

To empower individuals we serve by providing advocacy and therapeutic support through art therapy for children and teens who are victims or witnesses to domestic violence and sexual abuse.

Human Services
11
Family Services of North Alabama

Strengthens families and serve sexual assault victims

Human Services
12
Family & Children's Services of Mid-Michigan Inc

We inspire hope and well-being for people of all ages by providing counseling, education and support.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Passage Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Lancaster County Partners for Youth. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KARE: $180,140 · OtherKAREHOPE: $79,000 · OtherHOPEALSTON WILKES SOCIETY: $79,000 · OtherALSTON WILKES SOCIETYPalmetto Citizens Against Sexual Assault: $51,000 · OtherPalmetto Citizens Against Sexual AssaultLANCASTER CO OF THE ARTS: $41,900 · OtherLANCASTER CO OF THE ARTSCHRISTIAN SERVICES: $41,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN SERVICESSAFE PASSAGE INC: $20,000 · Other+3 more: $22,000 · OtherA FATHERS WAY: $37,500 · Human ServicesA FATHERS W…Chester-Lancaster Disabilities & Special Needs Boa: $22,500 · Human ServicesChester-Lan…CAROLINA COMMUNITY ACTIONS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCAROLINA CO…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 · Human ServicesBATTERED BUT NOT BROKEN: $57,000 · Crime & LegalBATTERED …The Lancaster County Partners for Youth: $30,000 · PhilanthropyLANCASTER COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $29,500 · EducationGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC: $3,500 · Youth Development
Other$514,040Human Services$72,500Crime & Legal$57,000Philanthropy$30,000Education$29,500Youth Development$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBATTERED BUT NOT BROKEN: $57,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetPalmetto Citizens Against Sexual Assault: $51,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetA FATHERS WAY: $37,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetThe Lancaster County Partners for Youth: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $29,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetChester-Lancaster Disabilities & Special Needs Boa: $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCAROLINA COMMUNITY ACTIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

United Way of Chester…Duke Energy FoundationNutramax Family Found…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Chester County InSC15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Chester County In · Duke Energy Foundation · Nutramax Family Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Lancaster County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    6report 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 18 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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