Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC
UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $426,636 to it, the largest being ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($276,820). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $232k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $427k
- Net assets
- $324k
What United Way of Adams County Inc does
Mission
Uwac works to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities through programs and initiatives that ensure our children enter school ready to learn and graduate on time, that every family is financially secure and that everyone has good health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Uwac helps others and makes a difference in people's lives by helping children succeed, strengthening and supporting families, promoting independence, improving health and wellness, and providing a safety net for the most vulnerable.
$116,467 spent57% of program spendingVolunteer center - brings people and resources together to find creative solutions to community needs. It connects people with volunteer service opportunities through family friendly events, including the martin luther king service day, postal food drive and give it up for good sale. The volunteer center maintains a comprehensive database of on-going and one-time individual and group volunteer opportunites available in adams county.
$36,430 spent18% of program spendingReady to learn - a county wide initiative which focuses on promoting quality early education and care for children, providing information to parents, easing the transition from early care to elementary school and promoting the keystone stars program.
$32,524 spent16% of program spendingWoman's purse - a woman's purse is the women's leadership initiative of uwac, and helps foster youths, ages 16 to 21, transition from foster care to independence. A woman's purse is part of a national women's movement at more than 250 united ways across the country. A woman's purse focuses its strengths and investments on a partnership with adams county children and youth services' independent living program. The independent living program is the county's only safety net for foster youths transitioning to self-sufficiency. By making an investment to better prepare and advise them during the emancipation process and support them during and after their transition, foster youth can acquire the life-long skills and connections they need to succeed. Members of a woman's puse serve as mentors to the foster youths, help them secure needed services, provide financial assistance for education and life's unexpected costs, and serve as a forece of stability in their lives. The women share their time, talents, and treasures to help them work toward independent living. Parner agencies - uwa, uwww, and uwp
$19,325 spent9% of program spendingVita program - the volunteer income tax assistance prgoram offers free tax help to low income households, persons with disablities, and elderly.
$266 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $205,012.
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 2021 to 2022, from $571k to $460k (−19%).
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: 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Brady Rodgers
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $29k → $34k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC’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
UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 59% · 2019 49% · 2020 56% · 2021 89% · 2022 66% · 2023 85% — growing more concentrated.
“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
20% of UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
70% of UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $130k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $297k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC's revenue fell 36% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC: 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 UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC?
- UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $426,636 to it, the largest being ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($276,820). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $426,636 in grants to UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC?
- ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $276,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC 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 15 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