· Public charity
United Way of Southern Chester County
Our mission is to improve people's lives by mobilizing the caring power and resources of our community; to provide local non-profit agencies with needed financial, professional, and strategic support;and to ensure that contributions fund programs that effectively move people from crisis to independence.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $219k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $377k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE | $117,200 |
| LCH | $76,180 |
| GARAGE COMMUNITY AND YOUTH CENTER | $68,360 |
| TICK TOCK EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $63,500 |
| OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER | $51,760 |
| ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM-KENNETT LIBR | $34,180 |
| OXFORD SILO | $29,300 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF CHESTER | $29,300 |
| YOUNGMOMS | $29,300 |
| CRIME VICTIMS' CENTER OF CHESTER CO | $19,880 |
| KENNETT AFTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $19,540 |
| MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM | $19,040 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER | $13,180 |
| FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY | $12,700 |
| KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER | $12,200 |
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, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
26 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- KAKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +262%
- LHLCH Health and Community Services8× · 2017–2025 · $908k · revenue +98%
- OAOXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $781k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- LLCHone grant, 2021 · $143k
- ALADULT LITERACY PROGRAM-KENNETT LIBRone grant, 2021 · $36k
- DDDONOR DIRECTED GIFTS 23-24one grant, 2024 · $32k
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.
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…
Chartiers believes each individual, regardless of economic status, has a right to achieve his/her highest potential and become a self-sufficient and full participating member of the community.
NKCDC advances social equity and economic empowerment by nurturing and creating opportunities for neighbors to live in, and actively shape, their neighborhoods of choice. (See Schedule O)
To provide information, counseling, and such services as may be appropriate to families or others in raising and nuturing children.
Provide professional advanced life support services to the community.
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The organization was created to administer governmentally funded programs for individuals who have or are at risk of having developmental delays or intellectual disabilities, by Exploring Possibilities, Mobilizing Resources, and Empowering…
To provide comprehensive primary and preventive care and social services to medically underserved families and individuals regardless of their ability to pay.
Preschool education for 3, 4 and 5 year old children in the kennett square, pennsylvania area
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…
To provide financial and in-kind support to unemployed and underemployed individuals and families in greater west chester who are facing crisis such as eviction, utility shut off, inability to get to their job, put food on the table,…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maternal and Child Health Consortium of Chester County Inc and the most unlike its peers is New London Counseling Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 35 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 KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds LCH Health and Community Services ↗
- Who funds OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY DAY CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Domestic Violence Center of Chester County ↗
- Who funds YOUNGMOMS ↗
- Who funds CRIME VICTIMS' CENTER OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KENNETT AFTER-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KENNETT LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SILO WORKS ↗
- Who funds Wings for Success Inc ↗
- Who funds OXFORD SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC EAST LINDEN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RSVP Volunteers ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAMP DREAMCATCHER ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE CAREER WARDROBE ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds Housing Partnership of Chester County Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH MINISTRIES INC ↗
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: Chester County Community Foundation · The Dansko Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · The Gordon Charter Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Health and Welfare Foundation of Southern Chester County · The Oxford Area Foundation · Justamere Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Fund for Women and Girls · Chester County Food Bank
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 Southern Chester 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.