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United Way of Pennsylvania

To champion united way as a leader and partner in building more financially resilient families and thriving communities throughout pennsylvania

$859k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$189k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Housing & Shelter$772kPhilanthropy$733kHuman Services$291kCommunity Improvement$192kReligion$140kYouth Development$50kAnimals$37kPublic Benefit$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $299k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $560k
$37,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNION MISSION$188,610
CARLISLE CARES$100,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION$71,736
UNION SNYDER COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$50,000
VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE$50,000
THIRD STREET ALLIANCE OF WOMEN & CHILDREN$50,000
SERVANTS TO ALL$50,000
CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES INC$49,620
CAPFSC - TABLELAND SERVICES INC$40,000
HOUSING TRANSITIONS INC$37,800
BRADFORD COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES$36,750
MIFFLIN JUNIATA CNTY HUMAN SERVICES DEPT$27,894
UNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY$25,000
UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY$20,000
UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY$17,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $278k) 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.

area typical 10%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE OF WOMEN & CHILDREN: $50k → 11%LYCOMING-CLINTON CO COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC: $15k → 12%BLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $28k → 13%CAPFSC - TABLELAND SERVICES INC: $40k → 14%MIFFLIN JUNIATA CNTY HUMAN SERVICES DEPT: $28k → 15%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PA: $12k → 15%LYCOMING CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC: $12k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE POCONOS: $18k → 12%BLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $16k → 13%THE NEXT STEP CENTER: $28k → 14%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $12k → 22%BLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $12k → 13%RHD CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $7k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 17 repeat orgs$729k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
13

Total granted

$1.5M
$283k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

94%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $446k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHealthAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

  • PM
    POCONO MOUNTAINS UNITED WAY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $230k · revenue +6%
  • CC
    CARLISLE CARES
    3× · 2019–2025 · $156k · revenue +183%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $142k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • CC
    Clinton County Housing Coalition
    one grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue 0%
  • WH
    WOMEN'S HELP CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $59k · revenue +80%
  • TN
    THE NEXT STEP CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue -67%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United Way of Cumberland County Inc

Organization is dedicated to raising funds for programs that meet the human care needs of the people of cumberland county.

Philanthropy
2
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
3
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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4
Union Aid Society

The Union Aid Society exists to serve those in need who reside within the eleven municipalities of the Quaker Valley School District.

Human Services
5
United Way of Lapeer County

To unite the community by developing resources to meet the community needs.

Philanthropy
6
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…

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7
Union County Community Shelter

Provide food, shelter and instruction to those individuals and families in need within the community. Promote a pathway to self sufficiency which includes income stabilization and permanent housing.

Human Services
8
Wayne County Community Services Organization

Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv

Community Improvement
9
United Way of Fayette County

The mission of the united way of fayette county, inc. (uwfc) is to unite our community in improving the condition of peoples lives. united way and each funded program believe that all people deserve to have full and complete access to the…

Philanthropy
10
Center for Community Resources Inc

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…

Health
11
Shelter Service Inc

Shelter services inc provides temporary shelter to the homeless from multiple counties and facilitates programs to prevent homelessness through various housing/rent/utility assistance services.

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12
United Way of the Capital Region

United Way of the Capital Region (United Way) is governed by a volunteer board of directors and works year-round to improve lives in counties of Cumberland, Dauphin and Perry, Pennsylvania. United Way accomplishes this by identifying the…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lancaster County and the most unlike its peers is Resources for Human Development Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRegional Economic Developme…Faith-Based Community Minis…Community Ambulance ServicesFood Assistance & Homeless …Private Social Clubs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr15%36%35–55yr18%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr15%39%35–55yr18%28%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
10%
3,090/29,703

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
18/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNION MISSION OF LATROBE INC — $188,610 · OtherUNION MISSION OF LATROBE INCTHE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES — $140,114 · OtherTHE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHESUNION SNYDER CAA — $110,000 · OtherUNION SNYDER CAASERVANTS TO ALL — $102,204 · OtherSERVANTS TO ALLUNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY — $83,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTYWOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC — $58,770 · OtherWOMEN'S HELP CENTER INCCENTRE COUNTY UNITED WAY — $52,000 · OtherCENTRE COUNTY UNITED WAYVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE — $50,000 · OtherVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE+7 more — $117,471 · Other+7 morePOCONO MOUNTAINS UNITED WAY — $230,000 · PhilanthropyPOCONO MOUNTAINS UNITED…UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY — $93,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE GREAT…UNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY — $71,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BUCKS COU…THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $28,333 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTH…UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC — $24,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $24,166 · PhilanthropyCARLISLE CARES — $155,740 · Housing & ShelterCARLISLE CARESCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION — $141,736 · Housing & ShelterCENTER FOR COMMUNITY…Clinton County Housing Coalition — $70,000 · Housing & ShelterClinton County Housi…HOUSING TRANSITIONS INC — $37,800 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING TRANSITIONS …BLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM — $56,564 · Human ServicesBLAIR COUNTY …THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD STREET …TABLELAND SERVICES INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesTABLELAND SER…MIFFLIN-JUNIATA REGIONAL SERVICES CORPORATION — $27,894 · Human ServicesMIFFLIN-JUNIA…THE NEXT STEP CENTER INC — $27,765 · Human ServicesTHE NEXT STEP…LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC — $27,350 · Human ServicesLYCOMING-CLIN…Resources for Human Development Inc — $18,850 · Human ServicesResources for…FAMILY PROMISE OF THE POCONOS INC — $17,764 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMIS…FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $11,667 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY — $111,167 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES INC — $54,870 · EmploymentBRADFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $36,750 · Animals
Other$902,669Philanthropy$470,999Housing & Shelter$405,276Human Services$277,854Arts & Culture$111,167Employment$54,870Animals$36,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPOCONO MOUNTAINS UNITED WAY — $230,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetCARLISLE CARES — $155,740 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION — $141,736 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES — $140,114 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY — $111,167 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSERVANTS TO ALL — $102,204 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY — $93,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY — $83,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY — $71,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetClinton County Housing Coalition — $70,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetWOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC — $58,770 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetBLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM — $56,564 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES INC — $54,870 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCENTRE COUNTY UNITED WAY — $52,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTABLELAND SERVICES INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSING TRANSITIONS INC — $37,800 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNEW BETHANY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $28,333 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIFFLIN-JUNIATA REGIONAL SERVICES CORPORATION — $27,894 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE NEXT STEP CENTER INC — $27,765 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC — $27,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC — $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetResources for Human Development Inc — $18,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE POCONOS INC — $17,764 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $15,625 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $11,667 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONTACT HELPLINE — $11,667 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUnited Way of Erie County — $10,833 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAIN LINK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY — $8,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYCOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Ppl FoundationFirstenergy FoundationThe Cigna Group Found…United Way of the Cap…United Way of the Gre…The United Way of Sou…Moses Taylor Foundati…John a and Margaret P…Truist Foundation IncThe Donald B and Doro…Lehigh Valley Communi…Community Foundation …
Ppl FoundationPA27.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ppl Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · United Way of the Capital Region · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown

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 Pennsylvania 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your 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
    12report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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