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Pennsylvania United

Pennsylvania United (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,823,816 to it, the largest being PA ALLIANCE ACTION ($1,593,625). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.0M
Funders on record
36
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
$3.6M
17/36 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 76%
01What it does

What Pennsylvania United does

Mission

PA United organizes and builds power across Western PA to create

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Together, communities of color and their white working class neighbors ran local campaigns on issues of justice and equality. Across our chapters we focused on membership and leadership development and worked tirelessly for affordable healthcare, affordable housing, union jobs, and fully funding our public schools. This year, and every year, PA United fights for a Pennsylvania that benefits all people, not just a few.

    $2,110,409 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,110,409.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($110k) Expenses 100 ($45k) Net assets 100 ($66k)2019 Revenue 647 ($714k) Expenses 1210 ($542k) Net assets 362 ($237k)2020 Revenue 2179 ($2.4M) Expenses 3920 ($1.8M) Net assets 1043 ($684k)2021 Revenue 1197 ($1.3M) Expenses 3570 ($1.6M) Net assets 620 ($407k)2022 Revenue 4011 ($4.4M) Expenses 7477 ($3.3M) Net assets 2265 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 2837 ($3.1M) Expenses 5847 ($2.6M) Net assets 3047 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 6491 ($7.2M) Expenses 11569 ($5.2M) Net assets 6071 ($4.0M)2025 Revenue 1851 ($2.0M) Expenses 5355 ($2.4M) Net assets 5530 ($3.6M)
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Revenue (1851)Expenses (5355)Net assets (5530)Peer revenue range

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 $2.4M to $4.5M (+87%).

$82k
$421k
$797k
$521k
$1.6M
$2.4M
$4.5M
$3.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of Pennsylvania United’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,024 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$66k
’18
$172k
’19
$650k
’20
−$278k
’21
$1.1M
’22
$513k
’23
$2.0M
’24
−$355k
’25
18
months of
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.

Board chair

Lisa Frank

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed8787666
Joined·+0+4+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·131110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $10k → $1.3M.

4 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Pennsylvania United’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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

Pennsylvania United has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders 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 Pennsylvania United.

13%
largest funder
33%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 45% · 2020 25% · 2021 34% · 2022 31% · 2023 41% — 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

50% of Pennsylvania United's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

Pennsylvania United draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 6 states in all.

IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Pennsylvania United holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−17% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve18.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)52% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding Pennsylvania United receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $166 on record.

State$166
19
22
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $166

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Pennsylvania United

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 9%Fundraising 3%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Pittsburgh United · exempt
  • PA United PAC · exempt
  • PA United Action Committee · exempt
  • PA United Federal PAC · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Pennsylvania United?
Pennsylvania United (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,823,816 to it, the largest being PA ALLIANCE ACTION ($1,593,625). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Pennsylvania United have?
IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $11,823,816 in grants to Pennsylvania United, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Pennsylvania United?
PA ALLIANCE ACTION is the largest funder on record, with $1,593,625 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Pennsylvania United 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 36 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