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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.

$938k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$135k
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$2.8MHealth$2.0MFood & Nutrition$1.8MCrime & Legal$406kEducation$366kYouth Development$299kEmployment$128kPhilanthropy$107kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 36 grants below total $834,998, the rows itemized in this filing. The $937,882 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $102,884 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $472k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $290k
$12,622
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS -CRALLEGHENY MT: $10k → 11%SALISBURY AREA FAMILY CENTER: $116k → 14%SALISBURY AREA FAMILY CENTER: $116k → 14%SALISBURY AREA FAMILY CENTER: $35k → 14%SALISBURY AREA FAMILY CENTER: $34k → 14%TABLELANDFAMILY CENTER: $34k → 14%TABLELANDFAMILY CENTER: $34k → 14%TABLELAND SERVICES: $34k → 14%TABLELANDFAMILY CENTER: $34k → 14%BLIND & VISION REHAB SERVICES PITT: $14k → 14%NEXT STEP CENTER INC: $14k → 14%NEXT STEP CENTER INC: $12k → 14%NEXT STEP CENTER INC: $12k → 14%NEXT STEP CENTER INC: $12k → 14%NEXT STEP CENTER INC: $10k → 14%NEXT STEP CENTER INC: $10k → 14%NEXT STEP CENTER INC: $10k → 14%NEXT STEP CENTER INC: $10k → 14%SMALL TOWN HOPE: $37k → 16%SMALL TOWN HOPE: $36k → 16%SMALL TOWN HOPE: $26k → 16%SMALL TOWN HOPE: $24k → 16%SMALL TOWN HOPE: $12k → 16%SMALL TOWN HOPE: $12k → 16%SALISBURY AREA FAMILY CENTER: $34k → 14%SMALL TOWN HOPE: $12k → 16%SMALL TOWN HOPE: $12k → 16%VICTIM SERVICES INC: $63k → 16%VICTIM SERVICES INC: $54k → 16%VICTIM SERVICES INC: $54k → 16%VICTIM SERVICES INC: $52k → 16%VICTIM SERVICES INC: $50k → 16%VICTIM SERVICES INC: $46k → 16%VICTIM SERVICES INC: $46k → 16%VICTIM SERVICES INC: $21k → 16%VICTIM SERVICES INC: $21k → 16%FRANKLIN ST METHODIS CH FOOD PANTRY: $16k → 16%PEER EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $15k → 16%PEER EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $15k → 16%PEER EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $15k → 16%PEER EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $15k → 16%PEER EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $15k → 16%ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY RESOURCE PROG: $13k → 16%PEER EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $12k → 16%ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY RESOURCE PROG: $12k → 16%PEER EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $11k → 16%ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY RESOURCE PROG: $11k → 16%FRANKLIN ST METHODIS CH FOOD PANTRY: $11k → 16%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.8M · 39 repeat orgs$269k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
17

Total granted

$7.8M
$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+31%

Still filing today

51%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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 ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • BI
    BEGINNINGS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +7%
  • FF
    FOOD FOR FAMILIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $895k · revenue +128%
  • TS
    TABLELAND SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $471k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • CN
    CONTEMPORARY NUTRITION SOLUTIONS
    one grant, 2017 · $26k
  • WA
    WINDBER AREA COMMUNITY KITCHEN
    one grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +41%
  • CC
    Coal Country Hangout
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -68%
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
Family and Community Services of Somerset County

To enhance the quality of life of individuals, families, and communities by providing professional mental health and addictions services and innovative community based

Human Services
2
Community Counseling Center of Mercer County

To help individuals and families lead healthy and fulfilling lives.

Health
3
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
4
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
5
Somerset Treatment Services Inc

Provide quality treatment and prevention services to all persons suffering from the consequences of substance abuse or HIV illnesses.

Health
6
Somerset Children's Center Inc

To provide therapy and case management services for children with special needs utilizing developmentally appropriate therapputic services in a safe, nurturing environment.

Health
7
Family Help Center Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
8
Family Service Inc

To provide family and individual counseling

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9
Family Services of Chemung County Inc

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…

Health
10
Family & Children Services Inc

Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive program of critical human services.

Human Services
11
Friend Inc Community 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.

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12
Children's Center

Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 63 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/34
Grantees still filing
25/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEGINNINGS INC: $1,660,484 · OtherBEGINNINGS INCUPMC: $814,608 · OtherUPMCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC-JTWALT DIOC: $298,208 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC-JTWALT DIOCINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $143,103 · Other+35 more: $1,362,083 · Other+35 moreTABLELAND SERVICES INC: $470,500 · Human ServicesTABLELAND SERVICES I…VICTIM SERVICES INC: $405,926 · Human ServicesVICTIM SERVICES INCSMALL TOWN HOPE INC: $171,000 · Human ServicesSMALL TOWN HOPE INCPEER EMPOWERMENT NETWORK A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $108,300 · Human ServicesPEER EMPOWERMENT NET…THE NEXT STEP CENTER INC: $88,200 · Human ServicesTHE NEXT STEP CENTER…BRIDGES COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $84,124 · Human ServicesBRIDGES COOPERATIVE …VISABILITY: $56,562 · Human Services+6 more: $79,986 · Human Services+6 moreCAMBRIA COUNTY DRUG COALITION INC: $466,841 · HealthCAMBRIA COUNT…HIGHLANDS HEALTH: $305,525 · HealthHIGHLANDS HEA…TWIN LAKES CENTER INC: $194,944 · HealthTWIN LAKES CE…+1 more: $6,000 · HealthFOOD FOR FAMILIES INC: $895,188 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR FAM…+2 more: $39,978 · Food & NutritionTHE LEARNING LAMP INC: $305,000 · EducationSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY: $24,584 · EducationTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $107,041 · PhilanthropyFLOOD CITY BOXING ACADEMY INC: $72,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$4,278,486Human Services$1,464,598Health$973,310Food & Nutrition$935,166Education$329,584Philanthropy$107,041Recreation & Sports$72,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEGINNINGS INC: $1,660,484 over 9y, 17% of budgetFOOD FOR FAMILIES INC: $895,188 over 9y, 11% of budgetTABLELAND SERVICES INC: $470,500 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetCAMBRIA COUNTY DRUG COALITION INC: $466,841 over 8y, 22% of budgetVICTIM SERVICES INC: $405,926 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetHIGHLANDS HEALTH: $305,525 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetTHE LEARNING LAMP INC: $305,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTWIN LAKES CENTER INC: $194,944 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSMALL TOWN HOPE INC: $171,000 over 8y, 23% of budgetWOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC: $115,319 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetPEER EMPOWERMENT NETWORK A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $108,300 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $107,041 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC: $106,862 over 8y, 28% of budgetTHE NEXT STEP CENTER INC: $88,200 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetBRIDGES COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $84,124 over 9y, 14% of budgetFLOOD CITY BOXING ACADEMY INC: $72,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSt Vincent de Paul Altoona-Johnstown: $68,151 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetVISABILITY: $56,562 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER JOHNSTOWN COMMUNITY YMCA: $47,109 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES INCORPORATED: $39,063 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY: $24,584 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCoal Country Hangout: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGOODWILL OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC: $19,796 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOMERSET COUNTY MOBILE FOOD BANK: $13,578 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $9,063 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBehavioral Health Services of Somerset & Bedford Counties: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOTTLEWORKS INC ETHNIC ARTS CENTER: $7,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetALLEGHENIES UNLIMITED CARE PROVIDERS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE LAUREL REGION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $5,235 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …1889 Foundation IncLee Initiatives IncDavid a Glosser Found…The United Way of Sou…Central Pennsylvania …The Wellington FundRiggs Family Foundati…United Way of Pennsyl…Upmc GroupCentral Pennsylvania …Firstenergy Foundation
Community Foundation of Greater JohnstownPA54.7× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 63 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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