Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY
SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,340,910 to it, the largest being PPL FOUNDATION ($280,897). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Susquehanna Valley United Way does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is doing what matters for our community; to serve as a catalyst, leader and/or partner for community efforts to develop solutions, reduce need, and have a positive measurable impact on identified areas of concern; to improve the quality of life for residents of the community by provideing support for programs, projects, organizations and /or agencies that possitively impact health, welfare and character building needs. Susquehanna Valley United Way is a channel to funding and resources for programs serving residents of columbia, montour, northumberland, snyder and union counties that lead to measurable improvements in people's lives and community conditions. We united people and organizations, advocate for chganges needed to make our community a better place to live, and focus on resources with maximum impact stategies targeting six issues, known as our priorities for impact.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
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$1,339,660 spentof which $700,464 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,339,660.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.9M to $2.6M (+38%).
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: 2024 35% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Steven Keifer
Chairman of board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $36k → $215k.
8 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY’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
SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
32% 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 SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 63% · 2019 39% · 2020 24% · 2021 65% · 2022 33% · 2023 28% — 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
41% of SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
67% of SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $227k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY is better cushioned than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $461k on record.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$401k
- Department of Health and Human Services$60k
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 SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY?
- SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,340,910 to it, the largest being PPL FOUNDATION ($280,897). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,340,910 in grants to SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY?
- PPL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $280,897 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 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