How much did UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION grant in FY2025?

UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION reported 67 grants totaling $5,620,414 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION based?

UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION is based in PA.

UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION

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· Public charity

UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION

The mission of United Way of the Capital Region is to improve lives in Cumberland, Dauphin and Perry counties by identifying the most pressing community needs, finding solutions to those needs, and demonstrating how these solutions are making a difference.

$5.6M

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$161k

Largest

01What you fund

0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$9.0MHealth$3.4MEducation$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.7MArts & Culture$1.5MFood & Nutrition$1.4MYouth Development$986kCrime & Legal$552kCommunity Improvement$312kOther$13M

02FY2025 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k34 grants · $237k
$10k–50k30 grants · $487k
$50k–250k3 grants · $277k

$9,231

Median grant

States reached

$31M

Total assets

Largest grants

Juniata College$160,751
Penn State Health and College of Medicine$65,877
Journey United Methodist Church$50,000
Derry Presbyterian Church$36,243
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank$34,823
Camp Hill Presbyterian Church$32,500
National Civil War Museum$30,500
The Foundation for Enhancing Communities$24,386
New Hope Ministries Inc$23,567
UPMC Pinnacle Foundation$19,655
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church$19,000
Harrisburg Academy$16,000
Hospice of Central Pennsylvania$15,604
Merrill Area United Way Inc$14,708
WITF Incorporated$13,479

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $8.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$31M · 190 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

190 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2025, 130 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

190

102

Total granted

$31M

$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+23%

Still filing today

76%

78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

YO
YWCA of Greater Harrisburg
8× · 2018–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +36%
TF
The Foundation for Enhancing Communities
8× · 2018–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +35%
AR
American Red Cross-National HQ
8× · 2018–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +9%

Funded once

CA
Capital Area Intermediate Unitgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $349k · revenue +267%
United Way Worldwide
one grant, 2019 · $133k · revenue -59%
VN
Visiting Nurse Association of Central Pennsylvania
one grant, 2019 · $90k · revenue 0%

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.

Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

See schedule oupmc western maryland is dedicated to providing patient centered care and improving the health and well-being of people in the communities we serve. please see part iii, line 1 for details.

Health

William Penn University

William penn university provides the opportunity for an educational experience with a focus on leadership, technology, and the quaker principles of simplicity, peace-making, intergrity, community and equality.

Education

Philadelphia University

To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The provision of education, research, and charitable patient care services.

Education

Cedar Valley United Way

Uniting our community to empower individuals and families to thrive.

Philanthropy

Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Inpatient and outpatient healthcare for citizens of the local & surrounding communities.

Health

United Way of Cumberland County Inc

The leader in initiating programs that support impact areas

Philanthropy

Chester County Hospital & Health System

The provision of management services to the chester county hospital and its affiliates.

Health

Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children

Pennyslvania partnerships for children is a strong, effective, and trusted voice for improving the health, education, and well being of the children and youth in pennsylvania.

Youth Development

Pocono Mountains United Way

Engages and mobilizes resources to improve lives through accelerated community change

Philanthropy

United Way of Bucks County

United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.

Philanthropy

Upmc

Support of subsidiary tax-exempt healthcare, education and research organizations

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Market Square Concerts. 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.

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 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.7%2/296

the rest of the field

6,104/77,866

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

236 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

228/236

Grantees still filing

163/236

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$14,575,086Human Services$8,984,975Health$3,357,107Education$1,880,538Philanthropy$1,663,739Arts & Culture$1,498,173Food & Nutrition$1,382,000

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.

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.

The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA163.6× affinity93 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · Community Aid Inc · Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Hall Foundation · Partnership for Better Health · Ppl 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 organisation UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Upper Dauphin Human Services Incorporated.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 232058911 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Upper Dauphin Human Services Incorporated, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 53% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way of the Capital Region?

Find your warmest path to United Way of the Capital Region through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

236 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of the Capital Region?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

236 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of the Capital Region?

More from the funding graph