· Public charity
United Way of the Southern Alleghenies Inc
The mission of the united way of the laurel highlands (the "organization"), a nonprofit voluntary health and welfare organization, is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 36 grants below total $834,998 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $937,882 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $102,884 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 $10k11 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $472k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEGINNINGS INC | $135,000 |
| FOOD FOR FAMILIES FOOD PANTRY | $102,825 |
| VICTIM SERVICES INC | $51,848 |
| CAMBRIA COUNTY DRUG COALITION | $40,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES | $39,063 |
| THE LEARNING LAMP INC | $39,048 |
| SMALL TOWN HOPE | $36,000 |
| TABLELANDFAMILY CENTER | $34,000 |
| HIGHLANDS HEALTH | $32,500 |
| TWIN LAKES CENTER | $30,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC-JTWALT DIO | $28,550 |
| WOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| FLOOD CITY BOXING ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| UWP-211 | $15,225 |
| PEER EMPLOYMENT NETWORK | $15,000 |
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, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- BIBEGINNINGS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +7%
- FFFOOD FOR FAMILIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $895k · revenue +128%
- TSTABLELAND SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $471k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- CNCONTEMPORARY NUTRITION SOLUTIONSone grant, 2017 · $26k
- WAWINDBER AREA COMMUNITY KITCHENone grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +41%
- CCCoal Country Hangoutone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -68%
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 enhance the quality of life of individuals, families, and communities by providing professional mental health and addictions services and innovative community based
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
To help individuals and families lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
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 engage in development of a self-help crisis intervention program to serve families mainly in erie county with abusive or potentially abusive family problems.
Provide quality treatment and prevention services to all persons suffering from the consequences of substance abuse or HIV illnesses.
To provide therapy and case management services for children with special needs utilizing developmentally appropriate therapputic services in a safe, nurturing environment.
To provide family and individual counseling
The purpose of family services is to assist individuals, families and the community in meeting the complexities of daily living by fostering the ability to develop and maintain positive relationships and promote healthy, independent…
To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.
Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive program of critical human services.
Friend inc community services is a multi-services social agency that supports the well-being of those in need and is committed to strengthening the lives of families and individuals living th northeastern berks county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is The Bottleworks Inc Ethnic Arts Center. 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 63 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 BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds TABLELAND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIA COUNTY DRUG COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds VICTIM SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING LAMP INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN LAKES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SMALL TOWN HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PEER EMPOWERMENT NETWORK A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT STEP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES COOPERATIVE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds FLOOD CITY BOXING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds St Vincent de Paul Altoona-Johnstown ↗
- Who funds VISABILITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER JOHNSTOWN COMMUNITY YMCA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Alternative Community Resource Program Inc ↗
- Who funds WINDBER AREA COMMUNITY KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Coal Country Hangout ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES 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: Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · 1889 Foundation Inc · Lee Initiatives Inc · David a Glosser Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation · The Wellington Fund · Riggs Family Foundation · United Way of Pennsylvania · Upmc Group · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Firstenergy 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 the Southern Alleghenies Inc 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.