Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE
KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,776,901 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY ($1,203,358). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $9.3M
What Kennett Area Community Service does
Mission
Strengthening our community in southern chester county through food, housing, crisis services, and education services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The kacs food cupboard provides a free 7-10 day supply of food each month to individuals and families in need. During this fiscal year, kacs distributed 1.1 million pounds of food to 2,091 unique households (5,749 individuals). On average, 1,160 services were provided each month through a combination of in-person shopping and delivery programs to low-income retirement communities and individual homes.
$2,632,693 spentof which $2,247,376 as grants71% of program spendingThe kacs social services program provides free emergency assistance to qualified households for rent, utilities, and other living expenses. Additional services include case management, connections to other community resources, and emergency housing assistance. During this fiscal year, 458 households received support (1,447 individuals).
$736,103 spentof which $258,884 as grants20% of program spendingHousing program kacs owns and operates three low-income rental properties that provide affordable housing for 18 adults and children. This program helps to address the critical need for stable and affordable housing within the community.
$162,123 spent$43,200 earned by the program4% of program spendingCommunity education kacs offers participant-focused programs that build connections, resources, and confidence for people with lived experience of poverty. This year, 46 individuals successfully completed the getting ahead program and 38 the financial empowerment program. Community-wide workshops educate the public about the realities of poverty and pathways to economic mobility. This year, 194 individuals attended the bridges out of poverty workshop or poverty simulation.
$154,728 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,685,647.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4.6M to $8.5M (+84%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 6% · 2019 7% · 2020 5% · 2021 10% · 2022 15% · 2023 15% · 2024 3% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $161k → $1.1M.
16 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
78% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 69% · 2019 54% · 2020 29% · 2021 36% · 2022 33% · 2023 48% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
49% of KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
79% of KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Chartwell Street LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE?
- KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,776,901 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY ($1,203,358). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $4,776,901 in grants to KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $1,203,358 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 82 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing