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United Way of Washington County

Our mission is to unite people, resources and organizations to improve lives in washington county.

$421k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$576kHousing & Shelter$487kHealth$468kCommunity Improvement$426kCrime & Legal$366kFood & Nutrition$247kEducation$181kEmployment$181kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 19 grants below total $246,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $420,685 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $173,935 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 $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $231k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHWESTERN PA HUMAN SERVICES$28,000
VISION SERVICES OF WASHINGTON GREEN$15,000
CASA FOR KIDS$15,000
WASHINGTON CITY MISSION$15,000
LIFE CHANGING SERVICE DOGS FOR VETE$15,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES-PITTWASHINGTON$15,000
VET PETS$15,000
LITERACY COUNCIL OF SOUTHWESTERN PA$12,500
INVISION HUMAN SERVICES$12,500
LEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER$12,500
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE OF SWPA$12,000
TRANSITIONAL EMPLOYMENT CONSULTANTS$12,000
WASHINGTON HEALTH ECHO$11,000
DRESS FOR SUCCESS PITTSBURGH$10,000
GREATER WASHINGTON COUNTY FOOD BANK$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $872k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY SERVICES OF W PA: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES-PITTWASHINGTON: $29k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES-PITTWASHINGTON: $24k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS WASHINGTON: $22k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES-PITTWASHINGTON: $17k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES-PITTWASHINGTON: $17k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES-PITTWASHINGTON: $17k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES-PITTWASHINGTON: $16k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES-PITTWASHINGTON: $15k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS WASHINGTON: $15k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES-PITTWASHINGTON: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES-PITTWASHINGTON: $10k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS WASHINGTON: $9k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS WASHINGTON: $7k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS WASHINGTON: $7k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS WASHINGTON: $6k → 11%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $65k → 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE OF SWPA: $57k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $41k → 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE OF SWPA: $39k → 12%THE LEMOYNE CENTER: $36k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $30k → 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE OF SWPA: $29k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $26k → 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE OF SWPA: $25k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $24k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $24k → 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE OF SWPA: $22k → 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE OF SWPA: $21k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $21k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $21k → 12%THE LEMOYNE CENTER: $21k → 12%THE LEMOYNE CENTER: $21k → 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE OF SWPA: $18k → 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE OF SWPA: $18k → 12%THE LEMOYNE CENTER: $15k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $15k → 12%LEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER: $13k → 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE OF SWPA: $12k → 12%THE LEMOYNE CENTER: $12k → 12%THE LEMOYNE CENTER: $12k → 12%GENESIS OF PITTSBURGHWASHINGTON: $6k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 21 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
5

Total granted

$3.0M
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+51%

Still filing today

90%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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 ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementHealthFood & NutritionEmploymentOther

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

  • B
    BLUEPRINTS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $426k · revenue +28%
  • TW
    THE WASHINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $309k · revenue +262%
  • WC
    WASHINGTON CITY MISSION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $268k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +95% · 29% of their budget
  • VT
    Variety the Childrens Charity
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -16%
  • GO
    GENESIS OF PITTSBURGH INC
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -51%

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.

1
Mercy Life Center Corporation

We, pittsburgh mercy health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life center is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…

Health
2
Wesley Spectrum Services

To empower children, adults and families by providing transformational quality whole person care .

Human Services
3
Mainstay Life Services

Individuals with developmental disabilities will live within a community that sustains them and benefits from their participation. mainstay life services will be regarded as the region's provider of choice for individuals and families…

Housing & Shelter
4
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh

To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.

Education
5
Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery

See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…

Health
6
Keystone Service Systems Inc

Keystone service systems, inc. (kss) provides residential and related support services for families and people who experience intellectual disability, mental illness, or other behavioral challenges throughout central pennsylvania and the…

Human Services
7
Concern - Professional Services for Children Youth and Families

Concern's mission: concern brings hope, offers opportunity, and inspires change. concern's vision: to encourage growth and promote positive healthy lives.

Human Services
8
Life'swork of Western Pennsylvania

We partner with people with disabilities, people with other barriers, young adults, children, and families to pursue their hopes and dreams through strengthening workplace abilities, building life skills, and developing meaningful…

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9
Keystone Human Services

Keystone organizations (keystone) provide comprehensive community-based services for children, young people, adults and families in the areas of intellectual disability, autism, mental health, and children and family services. keystone…

Health
10
Progress Unlimited Inc

To empower individuals to lead fulfilling and productive lives at home and in the community.

Human Services
11
Community Human Services Corporation

Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.

Human Services
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwestern Pennsylvania Human Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vetpets. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyParks & Land ConservationPittsburgh Regional Develop…Ethnic Fraternal Benefit So…Community Health Care Syste…Early Childhood Care and Ed…
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 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%10%<5yr12%0%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr20%17%20–35yr16%48%35–55yr17%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%11%<5yr12%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr20%21%20–35yr16%50%35–55yr17%18%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
8%
861/11,150

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

30 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. 30 of the 32 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WASHINGTON CITY MISSION — $267,585 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON CITY MISSIONDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SOUTHWESTERN PA — $239,479 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF S…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH — $155,447 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCE…LEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER — $128,415 · Human ServicesLEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTERAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $65,682 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & I…+2 more — $15,702 · Human ServicesBLUEPRINTS — $425,734 · Community ImprovementBLUEPRINTSLITERACY COUNCIL OF SOUTHWESTERN PA — $139,610 · Community ImprovementLITERACY COUNCIL OF SO…SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HUMAN SERVICES INC — $46,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVA…THE WASHINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $309,366 · HealthTHE WASHINGTON …CORNERSTONE CARE INC — $121,771 · HealthCORNERSTONE CAR…CASA FOR KIDS INC — $214,910 · Crime & LegalCASA FOR KIDS …SUMMIT LEGAL AID — $151,366 · Crime & LegalSUMMIT LEGAL A…EVERY CHILD INC — $13,500 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $11,392 · Crime & LegalFOOD HELPERS — $216,570 · Food & NutritionGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $30,000 · Food & NutritionTRANSITIONAL EMPLOYMENT CONSULTANTS — $170,666 · EmploymentDRESS FOR SUCCESS PITTSBURGH — $10,000 · EmploymentCONNECT INC — $173,683 · Housing & ShelterTHE AADVANTAGE FOUNDATION INC — $68,128 · OtherST JAMES — $30,074 · OtherPERSAD CENTER INC — $23,183 · OtherVISIONS SERVICES OF WASHINGTON-GREENE — $15,000 · OtherINVISION HUMAN SERVICES — $12,500 · OtherVariety the Childrens Charity — $8,000 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $25,911 · OtherLIFE CHANGING SERVICE DOGS FOR VETERANS INC — $15,000 · OtherVETPETS — $15,000 · Other+2 more — $10,307 · Other
Human Services$872,310Community Improvement$611,344Health$431,137Crime & Legal$391,168Food & Nutrition$246,570Employment$180,666Housing & Shelter$173,683Other$223,103

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBLUEPRINTS — $425,734 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $309,366 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetWASHINGTON CITY MISSION — $267,585 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SOUTHWESTERN PA — $239,479 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetFOOD HELPERS — $216,570 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCASA FOR KIDS INC — $214,910 over 9y, 26% of budgetCONNECT INC — $173,683 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTRANSITIONAL EMPLOYMENT CONSULTANTS — $170,666 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH — $155,447 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSUMMIT LEGAL AID — $151,366 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF SOUTHWESTERN PA — $139,610 over 9y, 28% of budgetLEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER — $128,415 over 7y, 9.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE CARE INC — $121,771 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AADVANTAGE FOUNDATION INC — $68,128 over 7y, 22% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $65,682 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HUMAN SERVICES INC — $46,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $25,911 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPERSAD CENTER INC — $23,183 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEVERY CHILD INC — $13,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINVISION HUMAN SERVICES — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc — $11,392 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS PITTSBURGH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $10,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetVariety the Childrens Charity — $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGENESIS OF PITTSBURGH INC — $5,702 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC — $5,088 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Washington County Com…The United Way of Sou…Hillman Family Founda…The Pittsburgh Founda…Eqt FoundationNisource Charitable F…Snee-Reinhardt Charit…Upmc GroupThe Washington Financ…Salvitti Family Found…Centimark FoundationStaunton Farm Foundat…
Washington County Community FoundationPA51.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Washington County Community Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Upmc Group · The Washington Financial Charitable Foundation · Salvitti Family Foundation Ima · Centimark Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm 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 Washington 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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: 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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