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United Way of Mercer County

United Way of Mercer County champions the needs of children and families in our region.

$58k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$33k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$8,800
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 17
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations United Way of Mercer County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$33k0%
FY20244$33k0%
FY20233$26k0%
FY20223$25k0%
FY201816$335k6%
FY201717$351kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$280kHealth$120kYouth Development$102kHousing & Shelter$98kPublic Safety & Disaster$42kEducation$41kRecreation & Sports$37kCivil Rights$35kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Salvation Army$167,7696n/a
Shenango Valley Urban League$115,19464%
Prince of Peace Center$99,77661%
Keystone Blind Association$61,5002n/a
Shenango Valley YMCA$52,15029%
American Red Cross Mercer and Trumbull Counties$41,5002n/a
Children's Aid Society of Mercer County$40,00021%
Buhl Community Recreation Center$36,70022%
The Good Shepherd Center Inc$30,20041%
Community Counseling Center of Mercer County$30,00020%
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All grantees of United Way of Mercer County by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Salvation Army$167,7696n/a
Shenango Valley Urban League$115,19464%
Prince of Peace Center$99,77661%
Keystone Blind Association$61,5002n/a
Shenango Valley YMCA$52,15029%
American Red Cross Mercer and Trumbull Counties$41,5002n/a
Children's Aid Society of Mercer County$40,00021%
Buhl Community Recreation Center$36,70022%
The Good Shepherd Center Inc$30,20041%
Community Counseling Center of Mercer County$30,00020%
Mental Health Association of Mercer County$28,0002n/a
McAr$20,0001n/a
Greenville Area School District$18,0002n/a
Children's Center of Mercer County$15,0002n/a
Mercer Area Library Inc$15,00026%
Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc$14,0001n/a
Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania$11,00020%
Community Library of the Shenango Valley$8,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget United Way of Mercer County supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShenango Valley Urban League: $115,194 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetPrince of Peace Center: $99,776 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetShenango Valley YMCA: $52,150 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetChildren's Aid Society of Mercer County: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBuhl Community Recreation Center: $36,700 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Good Shepherd Center Inc: $30,200 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCommunity Counseling Center of Mercer County: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMercer Area Library Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetGirl Scouts Western Pennsylvania: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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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 9.

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.

Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern OhioPA30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio · Buhl Regional Health Foundation · James Frances McCandless Trust · Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc · Edward J Kavanagh 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.

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About United Way of Mercer County

How much does United Way of Mercer County give?
United Way of Mercer County reported 4 itemized grants totaling $33,000, out of $57,600 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does United Way of Mercer County fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Health (15%), Youth Development (13%).
Who are United Way of Mercer County's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Salvation Army ($168k), Shenango Valley Urban League ($115k), Prince of Peace Center ($100k).
Does United Way of Mercer County fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Mercer County?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio, Buhl Regional Health Foundation, James Frances McCandless Trust.
Where is United Way of Mercer County based?
United Way of Mercer County is based in PA.

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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