· Public charity
United Way of York County
We assist working households in our community to achieve financial stability by collaboratively and equitably reducing barriers to prosperity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 56 grants below total $2,087,886 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,314,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $226,114 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 $10k14 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $680k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YWCA-YORK | $177,250 |
| YMCA OF YORK AND YORK COUNTY | $142,644 |
| CRISPUS ATTUCKS ASSOCIATION | $124,630 |
| NEW HOPE MINISTRIES | $123,588 |
| YORK DAY NURSERY | $112,004 |
| CHILD CARE CONSULTANTS | $110,420 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $91,643 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF YORK COUNTY | $75,831 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $63,855 |
| YWCA-HANOVER | $62,829 |
| TRUENORTH WELLNESS SERVICES | $59,571 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM COUNCIL | $56,298 |
| COMMUNITY PROGRESS COUNCIL | $54,905 |
| CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY - THE LEHMAN CENTER | $53,244 |
| LEG UP FARM | $48,758 |
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, $7.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of United Way of York County’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 5 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- TYTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF YORK PA9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +52%
- CACRISPUS ATTUCKS ASSOCIATION OF YORK PA9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +38%
- NHNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +105%
Funded once
- FVForSight Visionone grant, 2017 · $37k
- HFHELP FOR ONCOLOGY PROBLEMS AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORTone grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue -57%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $17k
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.
The york county bar association is a non-profit professional membership association of attorneys and judges. it exists to serve the needs of the lawyers, judges and public of york county. the association and its members have dedicated…
York hospital is a premier community teaching hospital providing quality, cost-effective health care services strongly supporting excellence in education, and offering essential services without regard for an individual's ability to pay.
With an unrelenting focus on academic excellence, the york academy regional charter school's mission is to challenge students in a diverse learning environment that opens doors for growth, opportunity and global citizenship.
Ywca greater pittsburgh is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. we envision a community that advances education, opportunity, and equity regardless of gender, race, or…
The youth service bureau ensures that children, youth, and families will have opportunities to realize and fulfill their potential for growth and development through their participation in a continuum of community-based, family-based, and…
We assist working households in our community to achieve financial stability by collaboratively and equitably reducing barriers to prosperity.
To be our region's trusted choice for the improvement of health and delivery of quality care throughout life. to be a regional healthcare provider for the citizens of york county and its contiguous counties with readily accessible high…
York community resource center equips and uplifts their community through a strong and educated workforce.
Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.
York Land Trust is a nonprofit organization that protects and cares for significant natural lands and waterways in the greater York Maine area for the benefit of the community and the environment.
Plan and develop housing for low to moderate income families and elder residents in the yorktown neighborhood of the city of philadelphia, pa and to conduct other programs to address the general resident concerns.
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Stillmeadow Nazarene Child Care Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 99 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 THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF YORK PA ↗
- Who funds CRISPUS ATTUCKS ASSOCIATION OF YORK PA ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE ROSES ↗
- Who funds YORK DAY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LEG UP FARM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #544 ↗
- Who funds TRUENORTH WELLNESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HANOVER PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FIRST HEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BELL SOCIALIZATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PENN-MAR ORGANIZATION INC (PA) ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY SOUTHERN PA DISTRICT - CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PROGRESS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE OF YORK PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP YORK ↗
- Who funds CONTACT HELPLINE ↗
- Who funds HANOVER AREA YMCA ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF HANOVER & SPRING GROVE INC ↗
- Who funds YORK HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK ↗
- Who funds MIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF YORK INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF YORK AND ADAMS COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF YORK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YORK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND 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: York County Community Foundation · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation · Powder Mill Foundation · The Arthur J and Lee R Glatfelter Foundation · Rice Family Foundation · Memorial Health Fund · The Graham Foundation · Kinsley Foundation · White Rose Leadership Institute · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · The Stewart Foundation · Adams County Community Foundation Inc
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 York 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.
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
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.