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THE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREA

THE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,583 to it, the largest being CARL L AND GLENDA T CRAMER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($70,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$231k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$161k
Net assets
$1.3M
5/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What The United Way of the Shippensburg Area does

Mission

The United Way of the Shippensburg Area is a unified fund raising organization which solicites charitable donations from the public and distributes such funds to the various charitable, civic, and social welfare organizations of the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The United Way of the Shippensburg Area allocates its contributions received to approximately thirty community charitable, civic, and social welfare organizations. These organizations include volunteer fire companies, youth sports programs, the public library, and the community nurse, among others. These organizations provide a wide variety of vital community programs in a small rural community.

    $193,584 spentof which $182,730 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $193,584.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($252k) Expenses 100 ($228k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 124 ($312k) Expenses 100 ($227k) Net assets 109 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 101 ($254k) Expenses 102 ($232k) Net assets 108 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 94 ($235k) Expenses 111 ($254k) Net assets 106 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 103 ($260k) Expenses 96 ($218k) Net assets 125 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 97 ($245k) Expenses 83 ($190k) Net assets 104 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 66 ($166k) Expenses 93 ($212k) Net assets 105 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 82 ($207k) Expenses 100 ($228k) Net assets 110 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 92 ($231k) Expenses 99 ($225k) Net assets 112 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (92)Expenses (99)Net assets (112)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.5M to $1.3M (−16%).

$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.4M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$24k
’17
$85k
’18
$22k
’19
−$18k
’20
$42k
’21
$55k
’22
−$46k
’23
−$21k
’24
$6k
’25
2.7
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.

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Listed131313111213131212
Joined·+5+5+1+1+4+2+4+2
No longer listed·55303252
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $14k → $38k.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 THE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREA’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

THE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 71% · 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 55% · 2023 26% — 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.

Where its funders are

99% of THE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

OH
PA

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like THE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREA

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 7%Fundraising 7%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

81%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREA?
THE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,583 to it, the largest being CARL L AND GLENDA T CRAMER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($70,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREA have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $160,583 in grants to THE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREA?
CARL L AND GLENDA T CRAMER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREA 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 6 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