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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.

$658k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$117k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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$3.7MHealth$1.3MYouth Development$965kEducation$353kFood & Nutrition$249kCrime & Legal$227kHousing & Shelter$138kCommunity Improvement$69kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $219k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $377k
$19,540
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
YOUNGMOMS$29,300
OXFORD SILO$29,300
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF CHESTER$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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TICK TOCK EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $93k → 6%TICK TOCK EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $87k → 6%TICK TOCK EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $87k → 6%TICK TOCK EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $85k → 6%TICK TOCK EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $84k → 6%TICK TOCK EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $82k → 6%TICK TOCK EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $66k → 6%TICK TOCK EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $64k → 6%TICK TOCK EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $61k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $35k → 6%OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $119k → 6%OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $104k → 6%OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $98k → 6%OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $98k → 6%OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $88k → 6%OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $85k → 6%OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $72k → 6%OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $64k → 6%OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $52k → 6%OXFORD SILO: $29k → 6%OXFORD SILO: $29k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $159k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $154k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $151k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $136k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $133k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $131k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $129k → 6%LCH: $119k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $118k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $117k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $117k → 6%LCH: $117k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $115k → 6%LCH: $115k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $113k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $99k → 6%LCH: $76k → 6%YOUNGMOMS: $40k → 6%YOUNGMOMS: $35k → 6%YOUNGMOMS: $35k → 6%YOUNG MOMS: $32k → 6%YOUNG MOMS: $32k → 6%KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER: $30k → 6%KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER: $30k → 6%YOUNG MOMS: $29k → 6%YOUNGMOMS: $29k → 6%KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER: $27k → 6%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 26 repeat orgs$270k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
8

Total granted

$6.8M
$262k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+107%

Still filing today

88%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalEmploymentReligionOther
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

  • KA
    KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +262%
  • LH
    LCH Health and Community Services
    8× · 2017–2025 · $908k · revenue +98%
  • OA
    OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $781k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • L
    LCH
    one grant, 2021 · $143k
  • AL
    ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM-KENNETT LIBR
    one grant, 2021 · $36k
  • DD
    DONOR DIRECTED GIFTS 23-24
    one grant, 2024 · $32k
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
Chespenn Health Services Inc

To provide comprehensive primary and preventive care and social services to medically underserved families and individuals regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
2
West Chester Area Senior Center

The west chester area senior center (wcasc) is a nonprofit community hub serving approximately 150 adults age 60 and older in west chester, pa, and surrounding communities. wcasc's mission is to promote active aging by providing access to…

Human Services
3
New Kensington Community Development Corp

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)

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4
Chartiers Center

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.

Human Services
5
Ywca Lancaster

The ywca lancaster is a nonprofit organization with a mission to eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

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6
Kencrest Services

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…

Human Services
7
Friends Association for the Care and Pro

Founded in 1822, friends association is a chester county nonprofit focused on solutions to reducing and ending family homelessness. friends strengthens our community by providing emergency housing, programs, and services that prevent and…

Human Services
8
Women Against Abuse Inc

The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…

Human Services
9
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
10
Community Services for Children Inc

Csc prepares young children and their families to succeed in learning and life through innovative, comprehensive, leading edge services.

Education
11
Chester County Food Bank

We mobilize and educate our community to ensure equitable access to nutritious and familiar food. we do this by raising, and soliciting funds for the acquisition, storage, growing, collection and distribution of food to low income citizens…

Food & Nutrition
12
Safe Harbor of Chester County Inc

Safe harbor of chester county is a non-profit organization dedicated to ending the cycle of homelessness in chester county by providing shelter, meals, and trauma informed support services- including intensive housing case management,…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kennett Area Community Service; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $1,203,358 · Human ServicesKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICELCH Health and Community Services: $907,850 · Human ServicesLCH Health and Community ServicesOXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC: $780,582 · Human ServicesOXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INCSOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY DAY CARE ASSOCIATION: $708,040 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY DAY CARE ASSOCIATIONDomestic Violence Center of Chester County: $345,982 · Human ServicesDomestic Violence Center of Chester CountyYOUNGMOMS: $281,612 · Human ServicesYOUNGMOMSFAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $174,540 · Human ServicesKENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER INC: $168,740 · Human Services+5 more: $400,618 · Human Services+5 moreTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER: $762,856 · EducationTHE GARAGE COMM…KENNETT AFTER-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $201,683 · EducationKENNETT AFTER-S…+1 more: $17,020 · EducationCRIME VICTIMS' CENTER OF CHESTER COUNTY: $220,885 · OtherCRIME VICTIMS…LCH: $143,300 · OtherLCHKENNETT LIBRARY: $142,200 · OtherKENNETT LIBRA…ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM AT BAYARD TAYLOR LIBRARY: $85,039 · OtherADULT LITERAC…ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM AT KENNETT LIBRARY: $72,700 · OtherADULT LITERAC…HISTORIC EAST LINDEN PROJECT INC: $37,620 · OtherADULT LITERACY PROGRAM-KENNETT LIBR: $35,800 · OtherDONOR DIRECTED GIFTS 23-24: $32,177 · OtherRSVP Volunteers: $31,780 · Other+4 more: $47,427 · Other+4 moreMATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC: $172,306 · HealthNEW LONDON COUNSELING CENTER: $29,620 · HealthCAMP DREAMCATCHER: $21,316 · HealthTHE CAREER WARDROBE: $14,060 · EmploymentLEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $6,160 · Crime & LegalLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Religion
Human Services$4,971,322Education$981,559Other$848,928Health$223,242Employment$14,060Crime & Legal$6,160Religion$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $1,203,358 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetLCH Health and Community Services: $907,850 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetOXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC: $780,582 over 9y, 19% of budgetTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER: $762,856 over 9y, 15% of budgetSOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY DAY CARE ASSOCIATION: $708,040 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetDomestic Violence Center of Chester County: $345,982 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetYOUNGMOMS: $281,612 over 9y, 9.5% of budgetCRIME VICTIMS' CENTER OF CHESTER COUNTY: $220,885 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetKENNETT AFTER-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $201,683 over 9y, 13% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $174,540 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetMATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC: $172,306 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetKENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER INC: $168,740 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetKENNETT LIBRARY: $142,200 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $132,558 over 6y, 10% of budgetSILO WORKS: $103,440 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetWings for Success Inc: $75,320 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetOXFORD SENIOR CENTER INC: $73,200 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetHISTORIC EAST LINDEN PROJECT INC: $37,620 over 3y, 41% of budgetRSVP Volunteers: $31,780 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNEW LONDON COUNSELING CENTER: $29,620 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCAMP DREAMCATCHER: $21,316 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $17,020 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY: $16,100 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CAREER WARDROBE: $14,060 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARC OF CHESTER COUNTY: $6,480 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $6,160 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHousing Partnership of Chester County Inc: $5,180 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Chester County Commun…The Dansko Foundation…The Philadelphia Foun…United Way of Chester…The Gordon Charter Fo…W W Smith Charitable …Health and Welfare Fo…The Oxford Area Found…Justamere FoundationConnelly FoundationThe Fund for Women an…Chester County Food B…
Chester County Community FoundationPA50.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Southern Chester County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Southern Chester County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 35 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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