Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LEWISTOWN UNITED MINISTRIES IN NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION
LEWISTOWN UNITED MINISTRIES IN NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,921 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MIFFLIN-JUNIATA ($257,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $206k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $264k
- Net assets
- $259k
What Lewistown United Ministries in Neighborhood Action does
Mission
Enhance and develop social, recreational, and educational activities for area children, youth, and families
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Connecting with kids program. A comprehensive youth development program providing structured opportunities for children and youth through initiatives such as the lumina afterschool program and rainbow summer program, as well as sonshine club. These programs offer academic support, recreational and enrichment activities, and faith-based instruction, including homework assistance, music, crafts, games, bible-based learning, and social and emotional development. The rainbow summer program provides seasonal programming with structured activities, meals, and community engagement opportunities. Collectively, these programs support education, character development, leadership, and spiritual growth in a safe and supportive environment.
$96,795 spent97% of program spendingCommunity outreach activities, including shared use of facilities and monthly community events.
$3,401 spent3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $100,196.
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 2024 to 2025, from $187k to $261k (+39%).
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: 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of LEWISTOWN UNITED MINISTRIES IN NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Sherri Bickert
Executive director as of 010225
Board chair
Elaine Siddons
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $25k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 LEWISTOWN UNITED MINISTRIES IN NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
LEWISTOWN UNITED MINISTRIES IN NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 LEWISTOWN UNITED MINISTRIES IN NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 85% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of LEWISTOWN UNITED MINISTRIES IN NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $152 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LEWISTOWN UNITED MINISTRIES IN NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LEWISTOWN UNITED MINISTRIES IN NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEWISTOWN UNITED MINISTRIES IN NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION?
- LEWISTOWN UNITED MINISTRIES IN NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,921 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MIFFLIN-JUNIATA ($257,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEWISTOWN UNITED MINISTRIES IN NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $263,921 in grants to LEWISTOWN UNITED MINISTRIES IN NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEWISTOWN UNITED MINISTRIES IN NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION?
- UNITED WAY OF MIFFLIN-JUNIATA is the largest funder on record, with $257,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEWISTOWN UNITED MINISTRIES IN NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION 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 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing