· Public charity
United Way of Mercer County
United Way of Mercer County champions the needs of children and families in our region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $33,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $57,600 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,600 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMYSHENANGO VALLEY CORP | $10,000 |
| SHENANGO VALLEY URBAN LEAGUE | $8,800 |
| PRINCE OF PEACE CENTER | $8,600 |
| THE GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER | $5,600 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- POPRINCE OF PEACE CENTER6× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +2%
- KBKEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATION2× · 2017–2018 · $62k · revenue +35%
- BCBUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER2× · 2017–2018 · $37k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- MMCARgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +33%
- CCCatholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +133%
- CLCOMMUNITY LIBRARY OF THE SHENANGO VALLEYone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
It is our mission to provide a child-centered environment, treating each child and family with respect.
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…
A welcoming community center that provides information and equitable access to space, collections, materials, programs and services that enrich the quality of life and facilitate lifelong learning.
Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.
Human services center is a comprehensive community behavioral healthcare provider that provides mental health and development disability services to lawrence county residents.
To provide affordable, dependable, quality child care that meets the identified community needs for child care. enabling parents to be/remain employed furthering the goal of serl-sufficiency and job retention.
Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.
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…
Child day care center
Sarccs mission is to prevent sexual violence and promote healing for those impacted.
To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Aid Society of Mercer County and the most unlike its peers is Shenango Valley Urban League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SHENANGO VALLEY URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PRINCE OF PEACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Shenango Valley YMCA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MCAR ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MERCER AREA LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LIBRARY OF THE SHENANGO VALLEY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization United Way of Mercer County funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.